Synopsis
Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view. The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact
Episodes
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277-Old Girl
02/09/2016 Duration: 02minImagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring one thing at time being equipped with a camera with 100 million pixels.
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275-No Place Like Home
26/08/2016 Duration: 02minAstronomers are finding thousands of planets orbiting distant stars. Your home the Earth is still the only one where you could live without a space suit.
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274-New Horizons Continues
23/08/2016 Duration: 02minAfter a successful trip through the Pluto system, the New Horizons Spacecraft is heading towards an even more distant object.
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273-Hunt for Planet9
19/08/2016 Duration: 02minEvidence is mounting that a Planet 9 exists in the outer region of our solar system.
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272-Big Eye
16/08/2016 Duration: 02minA giant telescope, under construction, will give us a picture of how objects in the Universe change with time.
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271-Race to Mars
12/08/2016 Duration: 02minThe red planet is teaming with human activity and may soon need air traffic control.
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270-Space Opals
09/08/2016 Duration: 02minOpals from space are likely to have brought some of the water we drink to planet Earth
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269-Gamma Ray Eyes
05/08/2016 Duration: 02minWith gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.
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268-Mars Weather Report
02/08/2016 Duration: 02minPrepare yourself for interesting weather. You will need long woolies and a spacesuit to survive on Mars.
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266-Colliding Planets
26/07/2016 Duration: 02minCollisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.
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265-Dancing with Earth
22/07/2016 Duration: 02minA small asteroid has become a third partner in the Earth-Moon dance.
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263-Catching Shadows
15/07/2016 Duration: 02minStudents and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.
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262-Shooting Star's Daddy
12/07/2016 Duration: 02minThe source of the Geminid Meteor shower each December is a strange little asteroid Phaethon.
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261-Cool Star Homes
08/07/2016 Duration: 02minHumans are likely to discover many nearby Earth like planets orbiting cool red stars.
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260-Gliding to Space
05/07/2016 Duration: 02minAn engineless glider will take two humans and scientific gear to the edge of space.
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