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Ep. 799: Heavy Lift Rockets

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Ep. 798: Our Summer Media List

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Ep. 797: Summer in Space

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Ep. 796: Oceans & Organics on Mars

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Ep. 795: Expanse Science

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Ep. 794: Stargate Science

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Ep. 793: Star Trek Science

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Ep. 792: Star Wars Science

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Ep. 791: Chang'e Sample Return

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Ep. 790: Meteorites From Other Worlds

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Ep. 789: What Happens When a Planet's Star Dies

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Ep. 788: Life's Molecules Form in Space

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Ep. 787: Evolved Stars (They're not dead yet!)

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Ep. 786: Wolf-Rayet Stars

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Ep. 785: Magnetars

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Ep. 784: Pulsar-Powered Science

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Ep. 783: Cataclysmic Variable Stars

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Ep. 782: Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

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Ep. 781: Awakening Black Holes

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Ep. 780: When Asteroids & Comets Attack!

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Ep. 779: Milankovitch Cycles

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Ep. 778: Dyson Swarms

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Ep. 777: The Eddington Limit

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Ep. 776: The Matter - Antimatter Dichotomy

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Ep. 775: The Hydrogen 21-cm Line

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Ep. 774: How Does Bad Science Happen?

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Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy?

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Ep. 772: 2025 Gift Guide

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Ep. 771: Comet Tails

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Ep. 770: The Ethics of Mars Exploration

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Ep. 769: Little Red Dots

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Ep. 768: Comets' Unpredictability

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Ep. 767: Black Holes in Extreme Circumstances

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Ep. 766: How Spacecraft End

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Ep. 765: Rockets vs The Environment

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Ep. 764: Cleared For Launch!

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Ep. 763: Interstellar Comets

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Ep. 762: Science in Crisis - NASA's New Budget

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Ep. 761: It's Here! The Vera Rubin Observatory

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Ep. 760: What to Look For This Summer

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Ep. 759: The Commercial Space Program

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Ep. 758: Non-Roving Rovers

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Ep. 757: CubeSats

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Ep. 756: SphereX

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Ep. 755: Intermediate Mass Black Holes

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Ep. 754: K2-18b

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Ep. 753: Why is the Moon's South Pole So Interesting?

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Ep. 752: Should We Go to the Moon or Mars Next?

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Ep. 751: Vacuum Energy

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Ep. 750: Supernova Early Warning System

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Ep. 749: Dark Energy Changing Over Time

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Ep. 748: Fast Radio Bursts

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Ep. 747: Rogue Planets

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Ep. 746: Dust Storms

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Ep. 745: How We Know If Asteroids Will Attack

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Ep. 744: Lunar Time

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Ep. 741: Technosignatures

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Ep. 740: Sneaky Stars!

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Ep. 739: Drones!

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Ep. 736: Gift Guide 2024

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Ep. 735: Albert Einstein

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Ep. 734: The Einstein Mission

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Ep. 733: Euclid Of Alexandria

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Ep. 732: The Euclid Telescope

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Ep. 731: Neil Gehrels

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Ep. 729: The James Webb Space Telescope

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Ep. 728: Solar Scientist Eugene Parker

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Ep. 727: Parker Solar Probe

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Ep. 726: Looking Back Over The Summer

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Ep. 173: Herschel Space Observatory - REMASTER

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Ep. 172: William Herschel - REMASTER

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Ep. 88 - The Hubble Space Telescope - REMASTER

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Ep. 162: Edwin Hubble - REMASTER

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Ep. 219 - Planck Mission - REMASTER

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Ep. 218 REMASTER - Max Plank

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Bonus Content: The week of too much news

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Ep. 725: Looking Ahead

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Ep. 724: Summer (Science & Sci Fi) Reads

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Ep. 723: Exoplanets by the Numbers

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Ep. 722: Weather on Exoplanets

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Ep. 721: Rogue Planets

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Ep. 720: Galaxy Series - Elliptical Galaxies

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Ep. 719: Galaxy Series - Spiral Galaxies

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Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies

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Ep. 717: Understanding the Ages of Distant Cosmic Objects

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Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs

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Ep. 715: Total Eclipse of the Science: Experiments During the Eclipse

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Ep. 714: Orbital Resonances

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Ep. 713: Solar System Volcanoes

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Ep. 712: How Peer Review Fails

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Ep. 711: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)

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Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program

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Ep. 709: Space Weapons

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Ep. 708: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets?

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Ep. 707: What Goes Into A Sample Return Mission? Moon & Mars

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Ep. 706: China's Space Program

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Ep. 705: Water Worlds - Looking For Life Beyond Earth

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Ep. 704: NASA's Juno Releases New Images

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Ep. 703: Solar Maximum of Doom? Maybe

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Ep. 702: Moonshot 2024 - Go or No Go?

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Ep. 701: Space Science We Look Forward to in the Next 700 Episodes

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Ep. 700: The Things We Got Wrong

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Ep. 699: Holiday Gift Giving Ideas for Astronomy and Space Fans

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Ep. 698: Insights Into the Universe

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Ep. 697: Mission Roll Call Part 6: The Outer Solar System and Beyond

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Ep. 696: Mission Roll Call Part 5: The Science at Mars

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Ep. 695: Mission Roll Call Part 4: Lunar Exploration

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Ep. 694: Mission Roll Call Part 3: Sun, Mercury, and Venus

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Ep. 693: Mission Roll Call Part 2: Looking Outward from Earth

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Ep. 692: Mission Roll Call Part 1: Earth Orbit

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Ep. 691: Jupiter's Changing Red Spot

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Ep. 690: Climate on Mars - From Ice Caps to Dust Storms

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Ep. 689 - Our Warming World: 20 Years of Climate Science

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Hiatus Message

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Ep. 688: What's Next? Looking Ahead to Season 17

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Ep. 687: Prepping for the Moon

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Ep. 686: Ice In The Shadows

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Ep. 685: Manufacturing In Space

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Ep. 684: Too Big, Too Soon: Massive Early Galaxies Defy Expectations

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Ep. 683: Cosmic Dawn

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Ep. 682: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies & Dark Matter

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Ep. 681: Kilonovae

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Ep. 680: Rogue Black Holes

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Ep. 679: High(per) Velocity Stars

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Ep. 678: World Building: Planet Formation, Growth & Ejection

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Ep. 677: The Answer is Always Dust

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Ep. 676: Other Things With Rings

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Ep. 675: Exotic Forms of Ice

129

Ep. 674: Asteroid Early Warning Systems

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Ep. 673: How to See Satellites (or Avoid Seeing Them)

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Ep. 672: Space Debris Removal

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Ep. 671: The Consequences to Breaking Space Laws

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Ep. 670 - Governing Space: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty & More!

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Ep. 669: Challenges to Dark Energy

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Ep. 668: The Crisis In Cosmology

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Ep. 667: JWST First Science

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Ep. 666: Solar System References to the Underworld

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Ep. 665: The Age of Reionization

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Ep. 664: The First Stars

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Ep. 663: End of Year Observing Events

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Ep. 662 - Looking Ahead at New and Recycled Missions

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Ep. 660: Runaway! Runaway! Escaping Stars, Planets & Small Bodies

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Ep. 659: Clear Skies, Bright Satellites

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Ep. 658: Space Exploration Horror Stories

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Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes

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Ep. 656: Smashing Asteroids for Science!

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Ep. 655: 65 Years of Space: Sputnik 1 Anniversary

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Ep. 654: The Side Effects Of Clean Energy

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Ep. 653: Climate Change: Looking at the Variables

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Ep. 652: The Rocket Race Towards Reusability

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Ep. 651: Artemis & The Decline of Single Use Rockets

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Ep. 650: Did JWST Work?

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Ep. 649: Highlights From NASA's Holiday Ruining History

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Ep. 648: Summer Observing

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Ep. 647: Best Sci Fi Beach Reading

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Ep. 646: Our Long Term Future in Space

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Ep. 645: The Future of the ISS

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Ep. 644: Is Earth… Normal?

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Ep. 643: Sagittarius A*

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Ep. 642: Is the Sun... Normal?

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Ep. 641: Can Planets Be Alive?

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Ep. 640: Survey Science: Newest Projects & Results

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Ep. 639: Big Qs Update: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Etc.

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Ep. 638: Simulating Space Missions

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Ep. 637: Machine Learning in Astronomy

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Ep. 636: Blowing Bubbles

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Ep. 635: Jets: When Magnetic Fields Fling Things

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Ep. 634: Milky Way's Mergers & Acquisitions

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Ep. 633: Weirdly Habitable Places

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Ep. 632: Building Images: Optical vs Radio

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Ep. 631: All The Uses Of Pulsars (Including Murder)

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Ep. 630: Things We Can Look Forward To

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Ep. 629: The Cost of Delays

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Ep. 628: The Sun Revisited

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Ep. 627: Mercury Revisited

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Ep. 626: Terrestrial Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

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Ep. 625: End of the Year Review

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Ep. 624: Small Rocky Bodies (Including Phobos & Deimos)

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Ep. 623: NEOs: Concern or Nah

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Ep. 622: Rockier Moons & Giant Asteroids

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Ep. 621: Gas Giants

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Ep. 620: Why Getting to the Outer Worlds is So Difficult

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Ep. 619: Icy Moons & Dwarf Planets

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Ep. 618: Ice Giants

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Ep. 617: Hangout-A-Thon Episode 2 - Crowdfunding Science

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Ep. 616: Hangout-A-Thon Episode 1 - The Great Observatories

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Ep. 615: Planet 9

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Ep. 614: Centaurs, Comets & Asteroids

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Ep. 613: Pluto's Demotion: 15 Years Later

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Ep. 612: Hiatus Message

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Ep. 612: The SETI Renaissance

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Ep. 611: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Intelligence Edition

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Ep. 610: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Non-Sentient Edition

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Ep. 609: Volcanos With Benefits: Lava Tubes, Hydro Thermal Vents & More

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Ep. 608: NASA Perseverance, The First 100 Days

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Ep. 607: InSight and Earthquakes

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Ep. 606 - Time Dilation: Skipping Thru Time

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Ep. 605: Sounding Rockets

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Ep. 604: Balloon Astronomy

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Ep. 603: New Colors of the Radio Spectrum

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Ep. 602: The New Colors of Gamma Rays - Getting Shorter

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Ep. 601: Unexpected Light Pollution

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Ep. 600: Looking Ahead

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Ep. 599: Zodiacal Light

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Ep. 598: How You Could Overturn Cosmology

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Ep. 597: The Expansion of the Universe

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Ep. 596: The Universe's Background Noise

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Ep. 595: Planet Hunting - Revisited

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Ep. 594: Juno - Primary Mission Highlights

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Ep. 593: Stellar Parasites

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Ep. 592: Gamma-Ray Bursts - Updated

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Ep. 591: What Are We Gonna Do With All That Space Junk?

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Ep. 590: Lunar Hazards: Dust, Radiation and More

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Ep. 589 - Lunar Resources: Water (Update) & Other Volatiles

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Ep. 588 - Lunar Resources: Lava Tubes

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Ep. 587: The Artemis Accords

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Ep. 586: Life As We Know It: Habitable Exoplanets & Extremophiles

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Ep. 585: Super Earths, Mini-Neptunes & Gas Dwarfs

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Ep. 584: Sample Return Missions From Asteroids

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Ep. 583: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Ep. 582: Building Bigger Black Holes

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Ep. 581: Other Kinds Of Novae

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Ep. 580: Exploding Dwarfs

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Ep. 579: White and Black Dwarf Stars

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Ep. 578: Venus Updates - or - Life on Venus?!?

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Ep. 577: Mars in Opposition

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Ep. 576: Summer Stargazing Special

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Ep. 575: Observing The Moon

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Ep. 574: Trojan Asteroids

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Ep. 573: Exoplanet Atmospheres

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Ep. 572: Twists in Planet Formation

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Ep. 571: Extreme Binaries

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Ep. 570: Discovering Comets

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Ep. 569: Ethics of Commercial and Military Space, Part 1: Private Space Flight

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Ep. 568: In Situ Resource Utilization

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Ep. 567: When Satellites Need a House Call

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Ep. 566: When Comets Fall Apart

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Ep. 565: When Worlds Collide

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Ep. 564: Mini Moons

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Ep. 563: White Dwarf Mergers

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Ep. 562: Dealing with COVID-19 and the Changes it will Bring

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Ep. 561: Remembering Katherine Johnson

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Ep. 560: Betelgeuse

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Ep. 559: The Surface of the Sun

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Ep. 558: Supernova SN 2006gy

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Ep. 557: Red Dwarfs: Friend or Foe

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Ep. 556: Multi Messenger Astronomy

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Ep. 555: Satellite Constellations and the Future of Astronomy

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Ep. 554: Big Telescope Controversy in Hawai'i

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Ep. 553: What To Look Forward To In 2020

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Ep. 552: Boyajian's star (and other strange stars)

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CosmoQuest Hangoutathon Promo

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Ep. 551: Missing Epochs - Observing before the CMBR

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Ep. 550: Missing Epochs - Observing the Cosmic Dark Ages

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Ep. 549: Stellar nucleosynthesis revisited: In and on and around dead stars

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Ep. 548: Stellar nucleosynthesis revisited: In stellar cores & atmospheres

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Ep. 547: Why Astronomy Still Needs Humans

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Ep. 546: Weird Issues: Planetary Migration

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Ep. 545: Weird Issues: Are comets asteroids or are asteroids comets?

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Ep. 544: Weird Issues: Biosignatures

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Halley's Meteor Shower and Two spacecraft updates

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Ep. 543: Weird Issues: The Habitable Zone

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Ep. 542: Weird Issues: The Age of the Universe

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Ep. 541: Weird Issues: Expansion Rate of the Universe

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Ep. 540: Weird Issues: How Do (or Don't) Planets Form?

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Ep. 539: Weird Issues: Why We Don't Know the Age of Saturn's Rings

267

Ep. 538: Asteroids: Rubble piles of the Solar System

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Ep. 537: Reusable Rocket Revolution

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Libsyn Survey Request

270

Astronomy Cast on Hiatus until Sept 2019

271

Ep. 536: Everyday Relativity

272

Ep. 535: Astronomy-Related Things To Do This Summer

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Ep. 534: Modern South African Astronomy

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Ep. 533: Indigenous South African Astronomy

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Ep. 532: Modern Astronomy of Australia

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Ep. 531: Australian Indigenous Astronomy

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Ep. 530: Astronomy of the Andes - Then and Now Pt. 2

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Ep. 529: Astronomy of the Andes - Then and Now Pt. 1

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Ep. 528: Modern Astronomy of the American Southwest

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Ep. 527: Ancient Astronomy of the American Southwest

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Ep. 526: Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole at M87

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Ep. 525: 100 Years of the International Astronomical Union

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Ep. 524: Judging Age & Origins, part 3 - Beyond Our System

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Ep. 523: Judging Age & Origins, Pt. 2 Across the Solar System

285

Ep. 522: Judging Age & Origins, part 1 - Earth Rocks

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Bonus Episode: Dust with Dr. Paul Sutter

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Ep. 521: The Deep Space Network

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Ep. 520: Transients: What They Are and Why They Matter, Part 2

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Ep. 519: Transients: What They Are and Why They Matter

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Ep. 518: When the Universe tried to Declare War

291

Ep. 517: Fritz Zwicky and the Zwicky Transient Facility

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Ep. 516: Polar Vortices

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Ep. 515: Space Radiation

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Ep. 514: Planetary Protection Protocols

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Ep. 513: Stellar Fusion

296

Ep. 512: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets

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Ep. 511: Predictions for 2019

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Ep. 510: 2018 - Year in Review

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Ep. 509: Fiction to Fact: 3D Printers

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Ep. 508: 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

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507: From Fiction to Fact: Ion Drive

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506: It's not Aliens, Unless it's Aliens

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505: Seismology

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504: Radar, Lidar & Sonar

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503: Gravity Mapping

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502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely

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501: Water Worlds Revisited

308

500: Live Celebration!

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499: What is the proposed Hubble-Lemaitre Law?

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Astronomy Cast: On Hiatus until September 2018

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498: Dwarf Galaxy Update

312

497: Update on Globular Clusters

313

496: Update on Stellar Populations (I, II, & III)

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495: Update on Asteroids & Prospects of Asteroid Mining

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494: Icy Moons Update 2018

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493: Mars Update 2018

317

492: Comets, Asteroids and KBO's

318

491: Exoplanet Update 2018

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490: What's New with Supernovae

320

489: Black Hole Update

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488: Dark Energy: 2018 Edition

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487: Dark Matter: 2018 Edition

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486: Particle Physics Update

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485: Docking, Refueling, and Transferring

325

484: Transfer Orbits and Gravitational Assists

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483: Stopping in Space

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482: Alternative Ways to Space

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481: Rockets pt. 3 – Going Faster, Higher, Farther after Fairing Separation

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February Q&A

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480: Rockets pt. 2- Multi-stage Boosters

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479: Rockets pt. 1- What Does "Single Stage To Orbit" Really Mean?

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478: Apollo 8 with Paul Hildebrandt

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477: State of Exploration: Once and Future Moon

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476: The Overview Effect

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475: Fast Radio Bursts

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474: Predictions for 2018

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473: Remembering the Best Space Science of 2017

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472: Best Modern Sci Fi for the Science Lover – Part 4: Bioscience

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471: Best Modern Sci Fi for the Science Lover – Part 3: Human Computer Relations

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470: Best Modern Sci Fi for the Science Lover – Part 2: 3D Printing

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469: Best Modern Sci Fi for the Science Lover – Part 1 Space Exploration

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468: Simulations for Science and Fun

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467: Resonance

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466: Origins of Zero (0)

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465: Exploiting Interfering Light

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464: Why the Hype over an Exorock?

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463: Pareidolia and the Moon

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462: Modeling the Weather

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461: Measuring the Weather with Satellites

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460: Earth from Afar: Remote Sensing

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459: Arecibo Observatory

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458: The Science of Cassini

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457: Why Did Cassini Have To Die? In Memoriam

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456: Pluto Revisited

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455: Your Practical Guide to Colonizing the Milky Way!

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Astronomy Cast Extra! Solar Eclipse 101

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454: Things We're Looking Forward To

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453: Favorite Things We've Done These 10 Years

359

452: Summer Observing Challenges

360

451: When Can I Buy My Ticket To Space?

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450: Inflatable Habitats

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449: Robots in Space!

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448: Prepping for the Eclipse

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447: Animals in Space Pt. 3: Dogs, Monkeys and More

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446: Animals in Space Pt. 2: Mice and Other Small Animals

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445: Animals in Space Pt. 1: Insects and Arachnids

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444: Fractals

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443: Destroy and Rebuild Pt. 7: Tsunamis

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442: Destroy and Rebuild Pt. 6: Magnetic Pole Reversal

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441: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 5: Continental Drift

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440: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 4: Supervolcanoes!

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439: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 3: How Do We Terraform Earth?

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438: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 2: Geoengineering

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437: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 1: The Torino Scale

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436 Bonus: Moon Cheeziness

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436: Common Misconceptions in Probability

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435: The Butterfly Effect

378

434: Am I On An Alien World?

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433: Volcanoes on Mars

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432: Geologic Ages of Mars – From Wet and Wild to Desolate Desert

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431: The Search for Life on Mars

382

430: Coming Home from Mars

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429: Living on Mars

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428: The Moons of Mars

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427: Click Bait vs Clear Science

386

426: Confirmation Bias

387

425: Naming Spacecraft

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424: Lightning

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423: Cyclones

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422: Geysers

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421: Space Games!

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420: FIRE!

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419: DragonCon 2016 Live: Rocket Girls

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418: I'm a Teapot

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417: Expectation: Failed

396

416: Fireballs from Space

397

415: The Temperature of the Universe

398

414: Navigating Far

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413: Navigating Near

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412: The Color of the Universe

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411: The Science of Sunset Colors

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410: Planet Nine - Facts & Fiction

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409: Spin in the Solar System

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408: Universal Cannibalism

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407: Galactic Cannibalism

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406: Stellar Cannibalism

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405: Method Not Found

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404: What We Know, What We Don't Know, & What We Can't Know

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403: Funding Big Science

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402: Gravity Eyes - See the Invisible with the Force

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401: Future Predictions

412

400: The State of the Universe

413

399: Women in Science

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398: Seeing Things

415

397: Why is There Something and Not Nothing?

416

396: Family Astronomy for the Holidays

417

395: Baryons & Beyond the Standard Model

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394: Bosons

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393: The Standard Model - Leptons & Quarks

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392: The Standard Model

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391: Entropy

422

390: Occam's Razor & the Problem with Probabilities

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388: Megastructures

424

389: Roundtable with Paul M. Sutter

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387: Water on Mars (Again)

426

386: Orbiting Observers

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385: Rovers on the Run

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384: Escaping Probes

429

383: Approaches to Absolute Zero

430

382: Degenerate Matter

431

381: Hollowing Asteroids

432

380: The Limits of Optics

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379: Fermi's Atom Splitting

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378: Rutherford Atoms

435

377: Thomson Finds the Electron

436

376: The Miller-Urey Experiment

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375: The Search for Life in the Solar System, with Morgan Rehnberg

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374: The Stern-Gerlach Experiment

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373: The Becquerel Experiment

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372: The Millikan Oil Drop Experiment

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371: The Eddington Eclipse Experiment

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370: Kaufmann Bucherer Neumann Experiments

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369: The Fizeau Experiment

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368: Searching for the Ether Wind (The Michelson–Morley Experiment)

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367: Spitzer Does Exoplanets

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366: HARPS

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365: Gaia

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364: COROT

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363: Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

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362: Carolyn Porco

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361: Maria Zuber

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360: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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359: Margaret Geller

454

358: Sandra Faber

455

357: Vera Rubin

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356: Inertia

457

355: 3D Printing Exploration

458

354: Comet Siding Spring vs. Mars

459

353: Seasons and Saturn

460

352: Water, Water Everywhere

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Live from DragonCon 2014

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351: Asteroid Adventures

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350: Spaceship One

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349: Mercury 7 Astronauts

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348: 2 Independence Square, the NASA Headquarters

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Live from Balticon

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346: Area 51

468

345: Launch Complex 39

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344: Saturn's Rings

470

343: The Universe is Trying to Kill You

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342: Sunsetting Spacecraft

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341: The 45th Lunar and Planetary Society Conference, with Alessondra Springmann

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340: Warner von Braum

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339: Space Conspiracy Theories

475

338: Copernicus

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337: Photometry

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336: Units of Measure

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335: The Photoelectric Effect

479

334: Chelyabinsk, One Year Later

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333: When Worlds Collide

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332: Stellar Collisions

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331: Arthur C. Clarke's Ideas and Technology

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330: Arthur C. Clarke

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329: Telescope Making, Pt. 3

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328: Telescope Making, Pt. 2

486

327: Telescope Making, Pt. 1

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326: Atmospheric Dust

488

325: Cold Fusion

489

324: Sun Grazers

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323: Isotopes

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322: SOHO

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321: Solar Flares

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320: Layers of the Sun

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319: The Zodiac

495

318: Escape Velocity

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317: Observatories

497

316: Observational vs. Experimental Science

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315: Particle Accelerators

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314: Acceleration

500

313: Precession

501

312: The Inverse Square Law & Other Strangeness

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311: Sound

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AstronomyCast 309: Creating a Science-y Society

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308: Climate Change

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307: The Pacific Ring of Fire

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306: Accretion Discs

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305: The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die

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304: Death of a Spacecraft

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303: Equilibrium

510

302: Planetary Motion in the Sky

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Ep. 301: Planetary Migration

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Ep. 295: The Observable Universe

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Ep. 300: What We've Learned in Almost 7 Years

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Ep. 299: Space Stations, Pt. 4: Future Space Stations

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Ep. 298: Space Stations, Pt. 3: The International Space Station

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Ep. 297: Space Stations, Pt. 2: Mir

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Ep. 296: Spacestations, pt. 1

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Weekly Space Hangout - May 3rd, 2013

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Ep. 294: Arecibo Observatory

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Ep. 293: Earthquakes

521

Ep. 292: The Oort Cloud

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Ep. 291: Shockwaves

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Ep. 290: Failed Stars

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Ep. 289: Cherenkov Radiation

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Ep. 288: Phases of Matter

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Ep. 287: E = mc2

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Weekly Space Hangout Feb 15, 2013

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Ep. 283: Stellar Motion

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Ep. 286: How to Debunk and End-of-the-World Myth

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Ep. 285: How the World Will Really End

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Weekly Space Hangout Feb 8, 2013

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Weekly Space Hangout Feb 1, 2013

533

Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 25 2013

534

Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 18, 2013

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Ep. 284: Optics

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Ep. 282: Seasons

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Ep. 281: Explosions in Space

538

Ep. 280: The Cosmological Constant

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Ep. 279: The Hubble Constant

540

Ep. 278: Animals in Space

541

Ep. 277: Orbit

542

Ep. 276: XMM Newton

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Weekly Space Hangout-Oct 25, 2012

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Mobile App: Phases of the Moon

545

Ep. 275: Isaac Newton, Pt. 1

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Ep. 274: The Asteroid Vesta

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AstronomyCast 273: Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

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Weekly Space Hangout - Oct 4, 2012

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Weekly Space Hangout Sep 27, 2012

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Weekly Space Hangout Sep 20, 2012

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AstronomyCast 272: Abiogenesis

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AstronomyCast 271: Who Does What in Space & Astronomy?

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Weekly Space Hangout - Sep. 13, 2012

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AstronomyCast: Live from DragonCon 2012

555

AstronomyCast 270: Inertia

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Live coverage of the Curiosity Landing on August 5th, 2012

557

Astronomy Cast on Hiatus for the Summer

558

AstronomyCast 269: Mass

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Weekly Space Hangout - July 12, 2012

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AstronomyCast 268: Energy

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AstronomyCast 267: Infinities

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Weekly Space Hangout - July 5, 2012

563

Weekly Space Hangout - June 28, 2012

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Ep. 266: Archimedes

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265: Arthur Eddington

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Weekly Space Hangout - June 21, 2012

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Weekly Space Hangout - June 14, 2012

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AstronomyCast 264: The Hazards of Space Flight

569

AstronomyCast 263: Radioactive Decay

570

AstronomyCast 262: Solar Sails

571

Weekly Space Hangout - June 7, 2012

572

AstronomyCast 261: Lasers & Masers in Astronomy

573

Weekly Space Hangout - May 31, 2012

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AstronomyCast 260: Lasers & Masers

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Weekly Space Hangout - May 17, 2012

576

AstronomyCast 259: The Exploration of Venus

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AstronomyCast 258: Viking Landers

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Weekly Space Hangout - May 3, 2012

579

AstronomyCast 257: Viking Orbiter

580

AstronomyCast 256: Resolution

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AstronomyCast 254: Reflection & Refraction

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Weekly Space Hangout - Mar. 8, 2012

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AstronomyCast 255: Observing Hydrogen

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Weekly Space Hangout - Mar. 1, 2012

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AstronomyCast 253: Rayleigh Scattering

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Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 23, 2012

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Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 16, 2012

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AstronomyCast 251: Messier Objects

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Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 9, 2012

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Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 2, 2012

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AstronomyCast 252: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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AstronomyCast 250: Precision

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AstronomyCast 249: Schrödinger's cat

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AstronomyCast 248: The Carina Constellation

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Weekly Space Hangout - Jan. 26, 2012

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AstronomyCast 247: The Ages of Things

597

AstronomyCast 246: What If Something Was Different

598

AstronomyCast 245: Calendars

599

Discovery of Earth-Sized Planets - Google+ Hangout

600

AstronomyCast 244: Io

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AstronomyCast 243: The Tunguska Event

602

AstronomyCast 242: The Turino Scale

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AstronomyCast 241: Astrophotography | Pt. 3: Image Processing

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AstronomyCast 240: Astrophotography | Pt. 2: Techniques

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AstronomyCast 239: Astrophotography | Pt. 1: The Gear

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AstronomyCast 238: Solar Activity

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AstronomyCast 237: Spooky Space Sounds

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AstronomyCast 236: Einstein Was Right

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AstronomyCast 235: Einstein

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AstronomyCast 234: Lunar Phases

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AstronomyCast 233: Radar

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AstronomyCast 232: Galileo Spacecraft

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AstronomyCast: Live at Dragon*Con

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AstronomyCast 231: Galileo Galilei

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AstronomyCast 230: Christiaan Huygens

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AstronomyCast 229: The Cassini Mission

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AstronomyCast 228: Giovanni Cassini, Pt. 1

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AstronomyCast 227: The Big Dipper

619

AstronomyCast 226: Weather

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AstronomyCast 225: Ice in Space

621

AstronomyCast 224: Orion

622

AstronomyCast 223: The Transit of Venus

623

AstronomyCast 222: The Decadal Survey

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AstronomyCast 221: Geomorphology

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AstronomyCast 220: Mass Extinction Events

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AstronomyCast 219: The Planck Mission

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AstronomyCast 217: Stellar Classification

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AstronomyCast 218: Max Planck Pt. 1

629

AstrnomyCast 216: Archeo-Astronomy

630

AstronomyCast 215: Light Echoes

631

AstronomyCast 214: Space Tourism

632

AstronomyCast 213: Supermassive Black Holes

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AstronomyCast 212: GPS Navigation

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AstronomyCast 211: Celestial Navigation

635

AstronomyCast 210: The Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit & Opportunity

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AstronomyCast 209: Exotic Life

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AstronomyCast 208: The Spitzer Space Telescope

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AstroCast 207: Lyman Spitzer

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AstronomyCast 206: Fission

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AstronomyCast 205: Fusion

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AstronomyCast 204: Temperature

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AstronomyCast 203: Europa

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AstronomyCast 202: The Planets at Gliese 581

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AstronomyCast 201: Titan

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AstronomyCast 200: The Mariner Program

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AstronomyCast 199: The Voyager Program

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AstronomyCast 198: How is a Space Mission Chosen?

648

AstronomyCast 196: Luminosity & Magnitude

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Astronomy Cast 197: Live from Dragon*Con 2010

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AstronomyCast 195: Planetary Rings

651

AstronomyCast 194: Dwarf Planets

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AstronomyCast 193: Astronomy with the Unaided Eye

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AstronomyCast 192: The Chandra X-Ray Observatory

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AstronomyCast 191: Chandrasekhar

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AstronomyCast 190: The Kepler Mission

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AstronomyCast 189: Johannes Kepler and His Laws

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AstronomyCast 187: The History of Astronomy | Pt. 5, The 20th Century

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AstronomyCast 188: The Future of Astronomy

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AstronomyCast 186: History of Astronomy | Pt. 4, Beginning of Modern Astronomy

660

Audible Ad: AstroCast 185

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AstronomyCast 185: History of Astronomy | Pt. 3, The Renaissance

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AstronomyCast 184: History of Astronomy | Pt. 2, The Greeks

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AstronomyCast 183: History of Astronomy | Pt. 1, The Ancient Astronomers

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AstronomyCast 182: Astrometry

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AstronomyCast 181: Rotation

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AstronomyCast 180: Albedo

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AstronomyCast 179: Mysteries of the Universe, pt. 2

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AstronomyCast 178: Mysteries of the Universe, pt. 1

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AstronomyCast 84: Getting Around the Solar System

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AstronomyCast 177: Mysteries of the Milky Way, pt. 2

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AstronomyCast 176: Mysteries of the Milky Way, pt. 1

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AstronomyCast 175: Mysteries of the Universe, pt. 2

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AstronomyCast 174: Mysteries of the Universe, pt. 1

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AstronomyCast 173: The Herschel Space Observatory

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Ep. 26: The Largest Structures in the Universe

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AstronomyCast 172: William Herschel

677

AstronomyCast 171: Solar System Movements & Positions

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AstronomyCast 170: Coordinate Systems

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AstronomyCast 169: The Fermi Mission

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AstronomyCast 168: Enrico Fermi

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Ep. 15: Listener Questions Answered