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Slacker Chat for February 2011 We join the Slackers for some chit-chat about Kepler and exoplanets and a whole bunch of other stuff, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twitter Plea This is a plea to follow us on Twitter. Our twitter name is 'slackastro'. Astro jokes and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Rachid Ouyed and Quark Novae Doug talks with Dr. Rachid Ouyed about monstrous supernovae and the extremely interesting prospect that they may result from the transition from a neutron star to a strange star. Just when you thought things couldn't get any denser ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Chat show with guest Ryan Wyatt A loud, chaotic at times but generally fun chit-chat show with Michael, Doug, Mike, Rebecca, Aaron and special guest Ryan Wyatt, directory of the planetarium at the California Acadamy of Sciences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Fun from the Sun Michael, Doug and Mike discuss coronal mass ejections, solar flares, aurora and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Variable Stars and Epsilon Aurigae Awesome video, narrated by Timothy Ferris, about variable stars and epsilon Aurigae. Courtesy of the good people at citizensky.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Extragalactic Distance Scale Michael Koppelman interviews Dr. Lucas Macri about his work on the extragalactic distance scale using Cepheid variable stars and space telescopes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AAVSONet with Dr. Arne Henden Mike Simonsen interviews Dr. Arne Henden about AAVSONet, a global network of research telescopes, including APASS and the BSM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizen Sky with Rebekah Turner Michael, Doug and Mike regale us with their wit and humor and then Mike interviews Rebekah Turner about the Citizen Sky project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Robert Naeye of Sky & Telescope Part 2 The conclusion of Mike Simonsen's interview with Robert Naeye, Editor-in-Chief of Sky & Telescope magazine. The topic today is science journalism and afterward Michael, Doug and Mike share their thoughts via their typical slacker banter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Robert Naeye, Editor-in-Chief of Sky & Telescope Mike Simonsen from Slacker Astronomy interviews Robert Naeye, Editor-in-Chief of Sky & Telescope magazine about the future of amateur astronomy. Michael, Mike and Doug also discuss various topics and provide brilliant insights and humorous commentary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Kevin Krisciunas Mike Simonsen interviews Kevin Krisciunas about his recent paper that describes how to measure the eccentricity of the moon's orbit with a yardstick and some cardboard and lots of other stuff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kepler and Extrasolar Asteroids An interview with Steve Howell from NOAO about the Kepler mission, extrasolar asteroids and Ophiuchans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizen Science with Epsilon Aurigae The folks at citizensky.org made this cool Lite Brite video about Epsilon Aurigae. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heat Michael, Doug and Mike discuss heat, temperature, thermodynamics, black bodies and associated hot topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supernovae and Caroline Moore Mike interviews Caroline Moore, the youngest discoverer of a supernova and Michael, Doug and Mike dicuss supernovae in general in some detail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CCDs, Cosmology and Ben Michael, Doug and Mike discuss the charge coupled device (CCD), answer reader mail about cosmology and interivew Slacker Blogger Ben Huset. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North Star Special A thorough and lengthy show about the North Star, Polaris, including an interview with Dr. Edward Guinan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slackerchat with Michael, Doug and Mike Michael, Doug and proto-Slacker Mike Simonsen discuss Citizen Sky, Jupiter, Stardust, Active SETI and much, much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Evalyn Gates Doug and Michael interview cosmologist Dr. Evalyn Gates about white dwarfs, dark matter, dark energy and women in science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Peter Brookhouse Doug Welch interview Peter Brookhouse about protecting Australia's observatories from bush fires. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simo-Slacker Interviews Pt. II Mike Simonsen interviews Christopher Tout, Paula Szkody and Boris Gaensicke about cataclysmic variable stars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simo-Slacker Interviews Pt. I A full show complete with discussion by Michael and Doug, 2 interviews by Mike Simonsen about cataclysmic variable stars and more chatter and laughing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 365 Days of Astronomy: 2/12/09 This is a cross-post of our third contribution to The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. It is part 2 of a 2 part series with Dr. Roberta Humphreys and Dr. Kris Davidson from the University of Minnesota, discussing massive stars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 365 Days of Astronomy: 1/12/09 This is a cross-post of our second contribution to The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. It is part 1 of a 2 part series with Dr. Roberta Humphreys and Dr. Kris Davidson from the University of Minnesota, discussing massive stars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with George Hrab An interivew with musician, skeptic, podcaster and 365 Days of Astronomy theme song writer George Hrab. Also includes a live extended version of the 365 Days of Astronomy theme song! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dark Energy with Dr. Michael Turner An interivew with cosmologist Dr. Michael Turner, who coined the term Dark Energy. We caught up with Dr. Turner at the AAS Meeting in Long Beach, CA on Jan 7th, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 365 Days of Astronomy: 1/5/09 This is a cross-post of our first contribution to The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. Doug and Michael discuss the cause of the seasons here on earth and other aspects of the night sky as explained by simple geometry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Ken Mogul on using Global Rent-a-Scope Doug interviews Ken Mogul, who has been using the Global Rent-a-scope system to observe variable stars from his bed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: JJ Kavelaars and the Kuiper Belt Michael and Doug discuss Mars Phoenix, Hubble and iPhone rockets plus an interview with Dr. JJ Kavelaars about Kuiper Belt objects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Geoff Clayton the man from Nantucket? From the Nantucket studios of Slacker Astronomy, we join Aaron, Michael and Doug for some astronomical chatter, including an interview with Dr. Geoff Clayton, an expert on R Coronae Borealis stars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Slacker Chat! After the tragedy of the "lost episode", undaunted, we got the gang together on Skype and had some fun recording a new show. Warning: Some politics within! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SOFIA and Hubble Brief discussions about SOFIA and the upcoming Hubble servicing mission from the AAS meeting in Saint Louis. Cameos by Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) and Mike Simonson (AAVSO). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slacker Chat with Doug, Michael, Aaron and Travis We bring the old gang back together for a chit chat about Mars, Brian May, kinematic footprints, IYA and more. We had some technical problems so please ignore the occasional static, beeps or bad jokes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Doug Baum on the BIPH Doug and Michael interview Doug Baum who, along with his partner Russ Lederman, has developed the Binocular Photon Machine (BIPH), a device which amplifies incoming light 50,000 times, effectively tripling your telescope aperture. We talk about the device, how it works and the cool ways it can be used. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Ethan Vishniac An interview with Dr. Ethan Vishniac who is the editor-in-chief of The Astrophyscial Journal and a professor of astronomy at McMaster University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Science Cafes An interview with Ben Wiehe of WGBH about science cafes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Price on BZ UMa [FF] Aaron Price won a Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for this poster on the cataclysmic variable star BZ UMa. Aaron walks us through his poster and results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Juan Collar and Detecting Dark Matter An interview with Juan Collar of the Kavli Institute on detecting dark matter in the laboratory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Goddess of the IYA [FF] A short interview with Susana Deustua about the International Year of Astronomy, with a brief cameo by Mike Simonson of the AAVSO. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Rick Fienberg of Sky and Telescope [FF] A short interview with Rick Fienberg of Sky and Telescope magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ice Cube Michael and Doug discuss the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory, supernovae light echos and buying a star. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Light Pollution Julie Wilbert brings us a report on light pollution with members of the Minnesota Astronomical Society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whatever the hell is Slacker Astronomy An interview with Aaron Price about the history of Slacker Astronomy plus ramblings by Michael. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast interview with Brant Robertson Doug and Michael chat with Brant Robertson, who is a Spitzer Fellow doing research at The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. Brant is a theoretical astrophysicist involved with computer simulations of the evolution of galaxies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slackerpedia Galactica 8.0: A Brief History of the Universe A brief history of the universe according to modern cosmology. Also a brief discussion of asteroid 2007 WD5, which may hit Mars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Principles 4.0 - Inside Stars [FF] Discussion on what stars are and how they work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Timothy Ferris [FF] Astrotalk about news and events followed by an exclusive interview with author and film maker Timothy Ferris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: DAO Visit [FF] A tour of the DAO Observatory in Victoria, BC, Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG Chit Chat #5 Opening skit, Astro news, another First Principles, discussions of astronomy tenure policies and the first of a new recurring segment: Kavli Cosmology Nugget, where cosmologists sit around a table with wine and cheese and talk shop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #8: Dr. Lucy Fortson on VERITAS and new forms of astro research Dr. Lucy Fortson is vice president for research at the Adler Planetariumand a member of the VERITAS gamma ray experiment. She talks about VERITAS, gamma rays, astronomyartifacts and new roles for the public in astronomy research practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #7: The CMB Soap Opera w/Dr. Stephan Meyer Dr. Stephen Meyer has been a part of most of the major CMB discoveries in the past two decades.He takes us on a journey of all the experiments, their challenges and successes and then sets the stage for the nextphase of CMB experiments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #6: Dark Energy w/Dr. Josh Frieman Dr. Josh Frieman discusses dark energy and alternative theories along with current and pending experiments totest it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #5: Dr. Michael Turner updates his famous 1998 paper: Cosmology Solved? Dr. Michael Turner updates his famous 1998 checklist of the seven major cosmological questions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #4: Nobel Laureate Dr. Jim Cronin On Cosmic Rays Dr. Jim Cronin, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in physics, discusses cosmic rays and the Pierre AugerObservatory Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #3: The Big Bang and CMB w/Dr. Clem Pryke Dr. Clem Pryke discusses the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background, andvarious properties of it currently being tested in an effort to test and answer open questions about theBig Bang. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #2: Dark Matter w/Dr. Andrey Kravtsov Dr. Andrey Kravtsov gives a good description of the dark matter concept along with currentunderstandings, challenges and active experiments underway to positively detect dark matter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmology #1: The South Pole Telescope and KICP w/Dr. John Carlstrom Our first interview from the Kavli Institute For Cosmological Physics. The Director, Dr. JohnCarlstrom, gives us an overview of the institute and the major equipment they are building and using. Throughout theweek we will bring you many interviews, both audio and video, from the institute and about all things cosmology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG #5.0 It's baaaacckk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promo: SL Chat with Phil Plait and Eric Chaisson Plus Request For Help With Pilot Study We have two upcoming chats in Second Life - Dr. Eric Chaisson on April 9 and Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer) on April 21. Also, I need your help with a pilot study for a school project. Then we close out with the famous Harry Carey SNL skit "Space: The Infinite Frontier" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Principles 2: Mass and Stuff (also McNaught/Titan skits) The second in the First Principle series in which our heroes posit on mass, inertia and other stuff. Also, two skits with Travis and Rebekah about Comet McNaught and Titan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Principles 1.0: Astronomers The first episode of a new segment called First Principles, in which we discuss the basics of what astronomers are and what they do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: The Moon Is A Trip Fun with the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Life Astro Cafe Interviews Promo Join us Feb. 3 and Feb. 5 in Second Life for Slacker Astronomy Cafe Interviews withDr. Stuart Lowe and Dr. Doug Welch. More on Second Life at slackerpedia.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Hot Astronomers [OF] Tonya, Michael and Travis wander the halls in search of hotastronomers. Filmed at the 209th American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle,WA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: AAS Doug Interviews an Astronomy Visualizer [FF] Dr. Doug Welch interviews Dr. Travis Rector, a science visualizerwith NOAO and Gemini observatories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: AAS Poster Wanderings [FF] Mike and Aaron wander the posters on day two of the AASmeeting in Seattle Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AAS: Day 3 Round Up and The Hot Chocolate Experiment [FF] Aaron, Doug, Michael, Travis and a friend Anthony talk about day 3 of theAmerican Astronomical Society meeting and perform an experiment with hot chocolate from room service.Craziness ensues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AAS Interview With Pamela Gay [FF] Interview with Dr. Pamela Gay at the 209th meeting of the American AstronomicalSociety Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AAS Recap Days 1-2 [OF] A recap of the first two days of the American Astronomical Society meeting. RyanWyatt (Science Visualization blog) joins us as a guest. Meeting blog at slackerastronomy.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson [FF] A quick interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson at AAS Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: AAS Meeting Nonsense [FF] Some dumb questions asked of smart people at the AAS meeting in Seattle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirty Rotten Astronomers [JF] Michael and Travis skip out to Bermuda and report on the Space Technology6 program from NASA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Optical SETI at Oak Ridge Observatory [FF] A tour of the Harvard University Oak Ridge Observatory and the OpticalSETI telescope there Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cheesy Filler Until AAS: Ribert and Robert's Wonderworld [FF] One week until the next meeting of the American Astronomical Society. So to holdyou over we offer clips from a nice Children's show on space: Ribert and Robert's Wonderworld, available at GoogleVideo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Are there extra-terrestrials? [FF] 3 Questions. Second question: Are there extra-terrestrials? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: The Story of V838 Mon - [FF] Rebekah and Travis tell the story of V838 Mon, a planet eater or just a really weird star? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG 4.0: The Astronomer Who Cried Wolf [FF] In this show we cover stories of astronomical predictions: the good, bad and why it'seasier to be the former than the latter. We also have an interview with Ryan Wyatt, a science visualizer at the AmericanMuseum of Natural History who talks about what goes on behind the scenes to turn those faint fuzzies into pretty pictures andgives us a report from a recent astro-visualization conference. And of course the news, mail and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Should Pluto be a planet? [FF] 3 Questions. First question: Should Pluto be a planet? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG #3.0: Planet eating monsters, light echos, unicorns and more...[FF] Rebekah is back and we have two old-school skits, Doug joins us from Gemini South observatory in Chile and we cover lots of news and gossip in the world of astrology, oops, I mean, astronomy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slackerpedia Galactia #2.0 [FF] Without Rebekah in this show, we are adrift. But we do our best to bring you some roundtable on current astro hot (and cold) topics. Rebekah and the SA-style scripts will return with a bang in the next show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SG Interview: Doug Welch on MACHO [FF] MACHO, and its sequel, SuperMACHO, are projects that have directly detected dark matter. Dr. Doug Welch is one of the researchers involved with the MACHO project. In this podcast interview with Michael Koppelman, Doug talks about all things MACHO. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slackerpedia Galactica #1.0 [OF] The first edition of the new show. Future shows will be posted on this same feed. Info at www.slackerastronomy.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AstronomyCast: Pluto's Planetary Identity Crisis Subscribe to this show at www.astronomycast.com. This is a sample episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astronomy Cast 2: In Search of New Worlds [FF] Subscribe to this show at www.astronomycast.com. This is a 2nd sample episode. Look down at your feet. There=85 you=92re looking at a planet. Now look into the night sky and you should be able to spot a few more. This =20 week we discuss the techniques astronomers use to locate distant =20 worlds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of a Planet and the End of a Podcast [FF] Pluto musings, then the bomb. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carbon Monoxide with Purpose There are two good places to have CO detectors: In your house and on your radio telescope. We talk about one good place to find CO, and it's not in your basement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Join our new discussion forums at slackerastronomy.org A quick note inviting you to join our new discussion forums at slackerastronomy.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Fair Plutonian Menance [FF] The things Pluto must do to remain in the brotherhood of planets would make even Luke remble with fear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sometimes Too Much Light Can Be A Bad Thing [FF] In the 90's, astronomers had a chance to see an object usually obsructed by glare. That window of opportunity has just now closed so the results of the research are now starting to come out.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great Balls of Fire A great ball of gas, greater in size than the distance between us and the Andromeda galaxy(!), has been spyed plunging into the distance Abell 3266 galaxy cluster. Why? Well why not? If you were a bored bit of gas living out your days in the suburbs of such a great galactic metropolis, wouldn't you too want to take a plunge, and go live in the center of things for a while? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ring Around the Planet [FF] Grab a partner, doe-se-doe. Watch the moons dance and roll... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finder's Keeper's [OF] Lookee what we found... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dusty Supernovae[FF] Astronomers prove you wouldn't have dustballs without supernovae. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weird Physics[FF] Weird hard math sometimes is and sometimes isn't weird good science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bigger Than the Motor Car [OF] Pictures of big things from the earliest days of the Universe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Running Backwards while Moving Forward [OF] Slowing light, and even making time run backwards, does nothing to help Pamela get more hours into a day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Even Space Telescopes Need a Union [OF] All work and no play makes an infrared space telescope a dull - but efficient, boy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Less Thing To Worry About [OF] GRBs don't kill people. Paranoia kills people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digging In the Dirt [FF] To learn of the Sun, we must look to the Moon. Or, more accurately, the dirty footprints we left behind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Breakfast of Enceladians [JF] Slush Puppies are what's for breakfast on Saturnn's Moon Enceladus Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sterile Neutrinos, Enough Said [JF] Sterile neutrinos are on a quest to solve all life's mysteries without interacting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Light Brite [FF] Lights, lights, lights everywhere and not a star to see. Just how many stars can you see in your area? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WMAP's Anistropy Trophy [FF] The show is now one year old, but the rest of us are 13.7 billion years old. Break out the Geritol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pop and Glow [JF] Occationally people go bump in the night, and occationally things flare in Gamma Rays. Did you go bump when GRB060218 went flare? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Blame It On The Termites And Be Done With It [JF] Somewhere on Titan, in a sleepy, empty home, an oven door is ajar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Simple As That [FF] The recurrent nova RS Ophiuci erupts for the first time in 21 years and illustrates the impermanence of existence - or just looks neato Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirty Rotten Snow Balls [FF] Don't know what to do with your snow? Toss it in a Lagrange Point! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Star, By Any Other Name... [OF] This Valentines Day pity the poor, lonely stars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listener Survey Just Do It Please complete our listener and podcaster surveys Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bubba Gump Galaxy Co. [FF] A new galaxy is discovered right next door - never seen because it was so big! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gamma-Ray Candles [FF] Brad Schaeffer demonstrates that Gamma-Ray Bursts can be used to measure the Cosmological Variable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supernova Echo and The Zwickymen [OF] Light echoes from supernovae centuries old are discovered by SuperMacho-Macho-Man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are You Ready For Some Astronomy? [FF] Monday Night Football is no longer. Fret not fellow couch potatoes! We have Monday Night Astronomy and a story about low energy aurorae. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Email happy birthday to Pamela at info@slackerastronomy.org Email happy birthday to Pamela at info@slackerastronomy.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Astronomer's T'was the Day Before Christmas [FF] Our holiday treat for our listeners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Titantic News on Titan [FF] Science results from the Huygens Atmospheric Probe from all over Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stellar Skeletons [FF] The Crab Nebula, SN 1970g, and Universal Expansion provide explosive science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saturn's Rings have Ridges [FF] Cassini and Mira team up to find wakes that look like Ridges in Saturn's Rings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andromeda Has Never Been So Hot [FF] Andromeda Has Never Been So Hot [FF] - infrared discoveries from the Andromeda galaxy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eta Boy Eta Car [FF] Eta Boy Eta Carinae [FF] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pop goes the Neutron [FF] Pop goes the Neutron (neutron star that is) [FF] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visiting an Old Friend For the First Time [JF] Visiting an Old Friend For the First Time [JF] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carrying the 1's Along Gravitational Highways [OF] Carrying the 1's Along Gravitational Highways [OF] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Hole Roundup [FF] Black Hole Roundup [FF] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deep Impact Isn't A Porno [OF] Deep Impact Isn't A Porno [OF] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Downsizing Galaxies Downsizing Galaxies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Propeller Population of the Universe Propeller Population of the Universe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donate to New Orleans Astronomy Clubs Donate to New Orleans Astronomy Clubs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donate to New Orleans Astronomy Clubs Donate to New Orleans Astronomy Clubs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viscious Little Dots Micro Blazars A Go Go Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remapping small town NGC 300 NGC 300's position is recalculated and its urban sprawl is remapped. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiny Specks of Fun Meteor Showers Aren't Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Be Or Not To Be A Planet We break down the 10th planet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neutrons play Hide and Quake Neutrons play Hide and Quake Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sharin' Charon Sharin' Charon (Show #19) - Pluto and its Moon Charon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking The Superwind Breaking the Superwind (Show #18) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dreaming of a Scary Universe Show #17: Dreaming of a Scary Universe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Asteroids Attack Show #15: When Asteroids Attack Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dunkin' Quasars Show #14: Dunkin' Quasars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of the Beginning Show #13: The End of the Beginning Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orion Poisons its Young Show #12: Orion Poisons its Young Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blame Canada for Extrasolar Planets Show #11: Blame Canada for Extrasolar Planets Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Martian Drinking Game Show #9: The Martian Drinking Game Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stellar Elders lack Metal Show #8: Stellar Elders Lack Metal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Minor Planets Get Carded? Show #7: Do Minor Planets Get Carded? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Death of a Disco Star Show #6: Death of a Disco Star Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Bad Astronomer Show #5: The Big Bad Astronomer capsule interview, full interview on the SA Extra Feed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Boom Show #4: Going Boom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gone With the Wind Show #2: Gone With the Wind Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Hole In the Corner Pocket Show #1: Black Hole In the Corner Pocket Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Galaxies in Gangs Wear Red Show #-1: Galaxies in Gangs Wear Red Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Attention Requested Show #-3: Your Attention Requested Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fancy Names For Shiny Lights Show #-2: Fancy Names For Shiny Lights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dark Matter, the Other White Meat Show #-4: Dark Matter, the Other White Meat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saturn's Hot Spot Show #-5: Saturn's Hot Spot Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Magic 8 Ball vs. Mira Show #10: Magic 8 Ball vs. Mira Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website