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Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Owen Katz (Custer Institute and Observatory)
In honor of their 30th Annual Astronomy Jamboree and Science Fair, starting tonight and going on all day tomorrow, here is my interview with Dr. Jeffrey Owen Katz - director of the Custer Institute and Observatory - on the multitude of astronomy research and public outreach activities they host. The projects he described sound really exciting, and I hope you enjoy! If you have any questions about their activities, please email me or leave them below and I will forward them to him.
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Interview with Prof. Joseph Tanski now onlineNow available here is my interview with Prof. Joseph Tanski of Vassar College on summer research opportunities for undergraduates at Vassar. If you have any questions about this program, visit their webpage. Hope you enjoy!
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Description of September 17th radio show: Galaxy FormationI know it's been online for a while here, but below is a description of the September 17th radio show, which in addition to covering the latest Astronomy news, I discuss the recent results on galaxy formation. On this program, I talked about:News: Conductivity probe on Phoenix Mars Lander returns some interesting results regarding humidity on Mars (link) as well as photographs several dust devils (link); NASA selects MAVEN project as its next spacecraft to Mars, designed to study Mars's a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
September 24th radio show online: The Sun and the EarthNow available here is the September 24th edition of this radio show. In addition to playing an interview with Prof. Joseph Tanski of Vassar College on summer research opportunities for Vassar undergraduates, I go over the latest news concerning the Earth and Sun - part of a recap before I continue my on-going "tour of the Universe" I started this summer. Hope you enjoy!
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Description of September 10th Radio Show: Milky Way Structure and Galaxy FormationAlready available here, below is a description of the September 10th edition of this radio show. On this program, I discussed: Calendar of upcoming Astronomy / science events in the greater Poughkeepsie / New York City area. Interview with Prof. Allyson Sheffield of Vassar College.News: Phoenix Mars Lander begins analysis on deepest soil sample to date (link) as well as makes some puzzling measurement regarding humidity on the Martian surface; amateur astronomers see Perseid meteor shower ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Prof. Allyson Sheffield now onlineAvailable here is my interview with Prof. Allyson Sheffield of Vassar College on the relationship between the present structure of the Milky Way and its formation. For more information on her research, check out her webpage, or email me a question, or leave a comment below. Hope you enjoy, and thank you for listening!
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Description of September 3rd Radio Show: Galaxy FormationI know it has long been available here, but below is a detailed description of the September 3rd radio show:Calendar of upcoming Astronomy/Science events in the greater New York City / Poughkeepsie area.Interview with Prof. Debra Elmegreen of Vassar College, available here. News: NASA's Mars rover Opportunity climbs out of Victoria crater (link 1, link 2); ESA's spacecraft Rosetta on track to rendezvous with asteroid (2867) Steins on September 5th (link) - rendezvous will be blogged live he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
June 4th radio show online - NewsAvailable here is the June 4th episode of this radio show. I covered the latest developments concerning the Mars Phoenix Lander as it gets ready to start studying the soil (and atmosphere) of Mars, as well as the important Astronomical news which occurred while I was away. I hope to put a more detailed synopsis below, soon, but am trying to finish an observing proposal before I leave this afternoon for a summer school hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Unfortunately, sin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 28th radio show online - "Mars Phoenix Lander"Available here, this episode is in honor of the Mars Phoenix Lander which successfully reached the surface of Mars. On this show, I covered: Phoenix Mars Lander: Goals and scientific instruments on the Phoenix Mars Lander, history of spacecraft sent to Mars, landing procedure, detection of first contact with Phoenix Mars Lander (link), first commands and weather reports for Martian surface, (really cool) picture of Phoenix Mars Lander landing taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
May 14th radio show online - "The Earth"The May 14th radio show is now online and available here. In addition to the usual news and calendar (lots of NASA webcasts on the calendar this week), I discussed some recent results concerning our own Earth - the structure of the Earth's core, the role of meteorite collisions in shaping the Earth, and our understanding of its magnetic field. I'll post a more thorough synopsis later, but in the meantime, please email any questions or comments or leave them below.No show next week, unfort ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Marc Taylor (Andrus Planetarium) now onlineMy interview with Marc Taylor, Director of the Andrus Planetarium at the Hudson River Museum, is now available here. Go here for more information on Astronomy Day 2008, which is taking place this Sunday, and here for more information on the Andrus Planetarium. Enjoy!
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May 7th Radio Show now online - Astronomy Day 2008Yes, today's radio show is now online and available here. This program focused on Astronomy Day 2008, occurring this Sunday at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY. On this program, I discussed Calendar of upcoming Astronomy/Science events in the greater Poughkeepsie / New York City areaInterview with Marc Taylor, Director of the Andrus Planetarium at the Hudson River Museum on running a Planetarium, and their upcoming Astronomy Day 2008 this Sunday, May 11th.News: NASA astronauts Dan T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 30th Radio Show - Mercury and VenusThe April 30th radio show is now online, available here. Our tour of the Solar System continues with the two innermost planets, Mercury and Venus. I made a mistake on-air when I discussed why it is so hard to get a spacecraft from Earth to Mercury, and have added an errata to the mp3 available above, so even if you heard this show live I strongly encourage you to listen to the mp3 so you can hear the correct information. On this program, I also covered:News: Solar flare on Sun observed t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 23rd Radio Show online - "The Sun"The April 23rd edition of this show is now online and available here. This show kicked out a "Tour of the Universe" series of sort. During the recently completed series on research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, there were lots of Astronomical news and results which I didn't have time to talk about, so last week, this week, and upcoming weeks will be devoted to filling you in on the lasting discoveries. I've decided to no do this chronologically but by "distance", start with the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Ann Hornscemeier now onlineAvailable here is the interview I did with Dr. Ann Hornschemeier of Goddard Space Flight Center, who is Deputy Project Scientist of Constellation-X, the leading candidate for NASA's next generation X-ray satellite, the successor to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Dr. Hornschemeier was kind enough to talk to about the science goals of Constellation-X, how it is being designed to achieve them, and the technology required to do this. I, personally, am very excited about this mission and, for m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 16th radio show onlineSorry for the delay, but the April 16th radio show is now online and available here. This show marked the end of our ongoing series on Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), which I hoped you enjoyed listening to as much as I enjoyed compiling. On this program discussed:Calendar of upcoming science events in the greater Poughkeepsie / New York City area.Interview with Dr. Ann Hornschemeier of GSFC on Constellation-X, the proposed successor to current X-ray satellites Chandra and XMM.News: Eu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Dave Thompson now onlineMy interview with Dr. Dave Thompson, multi-wavelength coordinator of the upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is now online and available here. As he discusses, multi-wavelength observations are going to be critical in understanding the physical properties of the different types of gamma-ray sources (discussed here), as well as vital in determining the nature of unidentified gamma-ray sources, which GLAST will almost surely discover many (discussed in some more detail here ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 2nd Radio Show onlineThe April 2nd edition of this radio show/podcast is now online and available here. On this week, I covered:Calendar of upcoming events in the greater New York City / Poughkeepsie area (link)Interview with Dr. Julie McEnery of Goddard Space Flight Center on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), NASA's next-generation gamma-ray observatoryNews: University of Toronto plans to sell David Dunlap Observatory to fund a new one, some faculty protest; European Science Foundation studyin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
April 9th Radio Show onlineSorry for the delay, but the April 9th radio show is finally available for download here. On this program, I covered:Calendar of upcoming science events in the Poughkeepsie/New York City areaInterview with Dr. Dave Thompson of Goddard Space Flight Center on multi-wavelength studies and GLASTNews: Major shake-ups in NASA's administration - 2006 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. John Mather to focus his efforts on the James Webb Space Telescope (for more info on the successor to Hubble, listen to this. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Past Interview: Tom Rankin (Mid-Hudson Astronomy Association)Sorry for the lack of updates this weekend, but I was away and unable to post things online. Here is the last pre-GSFC series interview for your enjoyment: Tom Rankin - Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association: How to buy a telescope (Air Date: 2008 January 9) As always, please leave any questions, comments, or concerns below and/or email them to me. Thank you very much for listening!
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Interview with Dr. Julie McEnery now onlineMy interview with Dr. Julie McEnergy of Goddard Space Flight Center is now online and available here. Dr. McEnery is one of the top scientists on NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), and she discusses some of the science goals of GLAST. Given how poorly the high-energy sky is understood - approximately 50% of all known gamma-ray sources are unidentified, and this isn't including the many questions remaining concerning gamma-ray bursts with Dr. Neil Gehrels talked about - G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Past Interview: Michael Bank (Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association)Michael Bank was kind enough to talk to us about the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association, an extremely active amateur astronomy group based in Poughkeepsie!.Michael Bank - Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association: Amateur Astronomy in the Hudson Valley (Air Date: 2007 December 19)Hope you enjoy, and please leave any questions or comments below. Thanks for listening!
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Interview with Dr. Neil Gehrels onlineThe interview with Dr. Neil Gehrels of Goddard Space Flight Center is now available for your listening pleasure. In this interview, Dr. Gehrels talks about Swift, an extremely successful satellite which was designed to study the gamma-ray, x-ray, and ultraviolet/optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and has been instrumental in furthering our understanding of what these mysterious explosions are. For more information on his research, Swift, and GRBs, check out:Homepage of Dr. Gehr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 26th show onlineNo, this isn't an April Fool's Joke, here is the March 26th show in mp3 format for your listening pleasure. On this show, I discussed:Calendar of upcoming events in the greater Poughkeepsie/New York City area, available here.Interview with Dr. Neil Gehrels of Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA), discussing studying Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) with Swift, the first satellite specifically designed to study these mysterious flashes of very high-energy photons.News: Congratulations to Katherine Be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 12th show onlineI know it is unconscionably late, but the 2008 March 12th show is finally online and available here. On this program, I discussed:Calendar of upcoming Astronomy/science events in the greater New York and Poughkeepsie areaInterview with Dr. Tod Strohmayer of Goddard Space Flight Center on accreting neutron stars, and what you can learn by observing them with the Rossi X-ray Timing ExplorerNews:Doritos plans to broadcast advertisement into space; astronomers at University of Western Ontario ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Tod Strohmayer onlineAvailable here is the interview I conducted with Dr. Tod Strohmayer of Goddard Space Flight Center on what you can learn about neutron stars and black holes from precise timing of their X-ray emission using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, currently the oldest working X-ray observatory. Dr. Strohmayer maintains a very nice webpage which discusses his research, which I encourage all of you to check out.As always, please email or leave below and question, comments, or concerns you might have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Gary Hinshawof Goddard Space Flight Center is now online and available here. Dr. Hinshaw was kind enough to discuss the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), an invaluable source of information on the nature of the universe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
March 5th radio show...is now online and available here. The guest this week was Dr. Gary Hinshaw of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who discussed the origin and importance of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in our current understanding of the universe. I also discussed on this episodeCalendar of upcoming science events in the greater New York City/Poughkeepsie areaInterview with Dr. Gary Hinshaw on the importace of measurements of the CMBNews:GLAST arrives at Kennedy Space Center for final preparatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Mark Clampinof Goddard Space Flight Center is available here. Dr. Clampin is the Observatory Project Scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and discusses both the science behind this mission and technological challenges which must be overcome to achieve them. JWST will most likely play an extremely important role in Astronomy during the next 10-20 years, and is a very complex and large mission. To learn more about JWST, check out:Homepage of Dr. Mark ClampinNASA's webpage for JWSTNASA's p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 27th radio show...... is finally online and ready for downloading. The guest this week was Dr. Mark Clampin of Goddard Space Flight Center, the Observatory Project Scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)- the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and he discusses the science goals of this telescope and some of the technological challenges which must be overcome so that it will achieve its mission. However, there was plenty of news and scientific results as well, and on this program I discusse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Past Interview: Prof. Rothman (Princeton University)Another previously-aired interview for your listening enjoyment. By far one of the most theoretical subject matters discussed on-ar to date, touching on if it is possible to ever understand the fundamental properties of gravity: Prof. Rothman - Princeton University: Is it possible to detect gravitons, the "force carrier" of gravity? (Air Date: 2007 October 24) As always, please leave any questions or comments you might have below.
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Interview with Dr. Aki Robergeof Goddard Space Flight center is now online. For more information of her research, check out her webpage.As always, please email or leave any questions, comments, and concerns below. Hope you enjoy!
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February 20th radio show...,.. is finally and available here. This show focused more on star and planet formation and extra-solar planets (planets which have been detected to orbit other stars), a topic in Astronomy which has been growing very rapidly recently. On this program, I discussed:Calendar of upcoming science events in the New York City / Hudson Valley area Interview with Dr. Aki Roberge of Goddard Space Flight Center, on open questions in star and planet formation.News:(radio show I mention in the beginni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Jennifer WisemanAvailable here is the interview I aired last Wednesday (13 February 2008) with Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, who is lab chief of the ExoPlanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at Goodard Space Flight Center. She was nice enough to talk about all of the work being done at Goddard on discovering and studying extra-solar planets, as well as work being done on star-formation, high-energy astrophysics, and other branches of Astronomy. Here are some websites where you can find more information on t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 13th radio show...is finally online and now available here. This was the second show in the ongoing series on Goddard Space Flight Center. On this show, I discussed:Calendar of science events in the greater New York City / Poughkeepsie area.Interview with Dr. Jennifer Wiseman of Goddard Space Flight CenterNews: European Space Agency (ESA) opens new European Space Astronomy Center in Spain; NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has begun monitoring five nearby stars with known transiting planets to try and detect e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Past Interview: Dr. Chromey (Vassar College)Since I'm currently airing a new series of interviews, I've decided to post every week - in addition to the new material - a prior interview for your listening pleasure. This week's past inteview is:Prof. Chromey - Vassar College: Astronomy Research at Vassar (Air Date: 2007 September 26) Hope you enjoy and, as always, leave any questions or comments below. Thanks.
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Past InterviewsSince I'll be doing a fairly long series of interviews starting on tomorrow's show, I thought it might be worthwhile to post a list of past interviews:James Battat - Harvard University: Measuring the distance to the Moon in order to test General Relativity (Air Date: 2007 September 17)Prof. Chromey - Vassar College: Astronomy Research at Vassar (Air Date: 2007 September 26) Dr. Dan Babich - California Institute of Technology: Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background, and how it can b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
February 6th radio show...... is now online and available for your listening pleasure. This program was mostly an all-news show, but constitutes the beginning of a series on Goddard Space Flight Center, the NASA research facility which has played a large role in developing, building, and maintaining some of NASA's most successful missions - such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) - which discovered the hot and cold spots, and the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) - which for a long ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
January 30th radio show...is now online and ready for download (you need something to listen to during the halftime show of the Super Bowl, right?). This was the third all-news show in a row, and I discussed:News: Telescope Array, a new high energy cosmic-ray observatory in Utah, starts taking data; asteroid 2007 TU24 flew within 300,000 miles of the Earth on January 29th.General Relativity: Hubble Space Telescope detects a double Einstein ring - the result of two galaxies being directly behind a very massive objec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
January 23rd Radio Show...... is now online as well. Sorry for the delay, but I had a scare involving static electricity zapping the sound component of my laptop's motherboard. This show was also an all-news show - I wasn't lying when I said that tons of press releases are issued at the Winter Meeting's of the AAS - and I discussed:News: NASA chastises astronomers for lobbying for money to be devoted to Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), a future satellite designed to image planets orbiting other stars, claiming ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
January 16th radio show...is now online. This was an all-news program, thanks to the flood of press releases issued at this year's Winter Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, an annual, huge conference with literally hundreds of Astronomers in attendance. With the exception of meetings of the International Astronomical Union, these meetings are by far the largest gathering of Astronomers in the world - with hundreds of talks and posters being presented. I was only to go through about half of all the pres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Tom Rankinof Poughkeepsie's own Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association on what to look for when buying an amateur astronomy telescope is available here. Hope you enjoy, and if you have any questions, or problems listening to this, please email me or leave them below. Thank you.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
January 9th radio show...... is finally online and available here. Sorry for the technical snafus during this program, but I was thankfully able to remove most of them before posting the radio show here. On this program, I discussed:News: A model for the Mid-InfraRed Instrument that will go on the James Webb Space Telescope is ready for testing, the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager which will go on NASA's upcoming Solar Dynamics Observatory now ready for final pre-launch testing, Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Michael Bank... of the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association (MHAA) is now available here. Hope you enjoy!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
January 2nd radio show...... is now online, and ready for download. Since the week between Christmas and New Year's is always a slow one, this show was a little special - the usual news segment was followed by the local Astronomical calendar, as always, but installed of following it up with more news or an interview I played about 30 minutes of vaguely astronomy-related music I brought from / found in the WVKR archive.Also, do people prefer if I put up a synopsis of each show, or just a link and general descriptio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 26th show...... is now online. This was an "all-news", trying to wrap up the latest results on the calendar year. I'll post a synopsis shortly and, as always, please leave comments and/or questions below. Hope you enjoy, and Happy New Year!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Interview with Dr. Savin,Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University, on laboratory astrophysics is finally online and available here. Laboratory astrophysics, the field of replicating astronomical systems on Earth and making measurements, is extremely important and very underappreciated - especially among professionial astronomers, so I encourage all of you to listen. If you want learn more about this work, check out Dr. Savin's personal webpage, as well as an article in Sky & Telescope (in PDF format) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 5th show...... is finally online, now that I have a nice friendly place to put it, and is available here. This was also an all-news-and-views show, and on this program I covered:News: JPL announces new version of PlanetQuest, a database with information on extra-solar planets; new NASA competition for high school and college students on aeronautics (good luck!); European Space Agency (ESA) announces a new program for recently graduated students interested in a career in the space industry, extension ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
November 28th show...... is finally online here. Since there was no show on 11/21, this was an "all-news" program. On this program:News: United Kingdom withdraws from Gemini Observatory, Thailand begins construction on a new optical observatory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey celebrates 5 years of operation, first HDTV "Earth Rise" taken by Japan's Selene mission, NASA announces success test of parachute system for next generation Moon rocket.Solar System: NASA extends SORCE satellite which studies the Sun's effect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
