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Weekly radio show (Wednesday 7-8 AM ET) on 91.3 WVKR FM Poughkeepsie, NY that goes over the latest Astronomy news, views, and discoveries, interviews professional astronomers, and present a calendar of Astronomy events in the NYC area. Listener feedback is encouraged.
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11/19/2010 | Download File (3.49 MB) - right click to download
Kepler recently discovered not one but two transiting planets orbiting the same star. Now, this isn't that surprising - many stars with multiple planets have long been identified (e.g. our Sun and Solar System), and since transiting planets are a result of favorable geometry (the planets happen to pass between us and their central star) and most planets orbit a star in the plane on the sky (one important reason why Pluto is no longer considering a planet by most astronomers). one would even expect this to happen. It is cool, never the less. Read more about it here and here and here and here and here, with an audio report (courtesy of NASA) here.
11/11/2010 | Download File (0.00 MB) - right click to download
Literally. NASA's Dawn satellite will hopefully land on the asteroid Vesta soon. Go here to read more, or listen to it here. Enjoy!
11/8/2010 | Download File (41.83 MB) - right click to download
Go here to read about a unique opportunity to measure the mass of a neutron star, and hopefully learn most about the state of matter in these incredible dense balls. For more information on this topic, listen to this interview with Tod Strohmayer of NASA, who works on RXTE - the satellite that discovered this system.
11/2/2010 | Download File (4.27 MB) - right click to download
The Japanese satellite Akatsuki will arrive in Venus shortly to study this cloud enshrouded planet. Go here or listen to this NASA report to learn more about it.
9/25/2010 | Download File (0.00 MB) - right click to download
While "earth quake" like events actually occur somewhat regularly on the surface of neutron stars and white dwarfs, something similar - for very different reasons - was also recently observed to occur in the Earth's magnetic field. Go here to read more, or listen to it here. Enjoy!
