Destination Ceres: Icy World Revealed

Join us for another special Dawn Mission Hangout as we explore the dwarf planet/largest asteroid Ceres.

Special guests will be Britney Schmidt of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Julie Castillo-Rogez of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They will be talking about what lurks underneath Ceres's dusty regolith.

Learning Space with CosmoQuest - 27 March, 2013

Nicole Gugliucci and Georgia Bracey host this week's episode of Learning Space with CosmoQuest. Their guests are Terry and Jeff Menz from the Riverbend Astronomy Club.

Learning Space w/ CosmoQuest: 20 March, 2013

Nicole Gugliucci and Georgia Bracey talk with Ryan Lynch on NANOGrav.

This week, we'll be joined by Ryan Lynch of McGill University about outreach opportunities around the NANOGrav project. Like pulsars, radio telescopes, and ripples in time and space? This one is for you.



Ryan Lynch is a postdoctoral scholar in Prof. Vicky Kaspi's pulsar group at McGill University. His research focuses on finding new and interesting pulsars in large-area radio surveys and learning everything I can from them. He is also a passionate educator with many years of outreach experience. Ryan Lynch's driven to foster a thirst for knowledge of astronomy and other areas of science among all people, especially children and young adults.

Learning Space with CosmoQuest Feb 6 2013

Streamed live on Feb 6, 2013

Links mentioned in the show:


http://galileoscope.org/

http://teachingwithtelescopes.org/

http://www.telescopes4teachers.org

http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/

Learning Space with CosmoQuest

Learning Space with CosmoQuest Jan 23 2013

Virtual Star Party Jan 13, 2013

Telescopes by Bill McLaughlin, Dave Dickinson, Gary Gonella, Ray Sanders, and Roy Salisbury.

Commentary by Phil Plait, Scot Lewis, Thad Szabo, Nicole Gugliucci, and Pamela Gay.



Hosted by Fraser Cain.
Special Guest Amanda Bauer.

Live Exoplanet Transit of Qatar-1b

Live hangout on air event for #deSTEMber #girlstart in a month of science activities. In a world first Amateur Astronomer Peter Lake with assistance from Scott Lewis, Shahrin Ahmed and #STEM



Scott Lewis, The Bald Astronomer
Tamara Hudgins, Girlstart

Stellar Motions

Our Universe appears timeless and unchanging, the stars taking nightly flights across the sky. But over long periods of time, you realize that our local region, and even the entire Milky Way is in constant motion. The constellations we see today would be very different millions or even thousands of years ago. Today we'll discuss stellar motion, how astronomers detect it and how it's useful.



Fraiser Cain, Universe Today
Pamela Gay, StarStryder

Astronomy Cast Ep 283
December 2012

Virtual Star Party Dec 9, 2012

Telescope by Gary Gonella.



Commentary by Scott Lewis, Ray Sanders, Pamela Gay, and Thad Szabo.
Hosted by Fraser Cain.

This is Virtual Star Party from December 9, 2012

Astronomy Cast Ep 282 Seasons

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These are the seasons we experience here on Earth as our planet completes an orbit around the Sun. But what's going on? Why do we experience such different temperatures and weather over the course of 365 days? Do other planets experience the seasons like we do?



Astronomy Cast Episode 282 Seasons

Science Hour

Pamela and Scott discuss plans for CosmoQuest

CosmoQuest Science Hour, DPS/Curiosity Update

Emily Lakdawalla and Fraser Cain with your biweekly update on Curiosity's activities on Mars.



Video from October 2012

Astronomy Cast - Episode 274 about Vesta

There's some topics on Astronomy Cast that we wait until we are good and ready, until the science is all in. The Dawn mission has completed it's mapping operations at asteroid Vesta and it's now moving on to Ceres. This gives us a great opportunity to take a detailed look at this amazing asteroid, report on the science findings, and give you a preview of what's coming next.



with:

Pamela Gay, CosmoQuest
Fraser Crain, publisher, Universe Today

Gale Crater on Mars (Science Hour)

Emily Lakdawalla and Fraser Cain explore Mars and map out plans for the Mars Science Lander, Curiosity....from a planetary geologist's perspective (Emily's).

Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

In Episode 24 we presented the concept of the Fermi Paradox. In short: Where are all the aliens? Today we're going to examine the theoretical solutions to this problem. Maybe they're out there, but just don't want to talk to us. Maybe it's too hard to communicate? Maybe there are no other civilizations. Maybe civilizations wipe themselves out when they reach a certain point. So many solutions, none of them satisfactory.



Astronomy Cast Ep. 273 Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

CosmoQuest Science Hour TerraLuna

Dr Pamela L. Gay talks to CosmoQuest Education Lead Georgia Bracey and Post Doc Nicole Gugliucci about the TerraLuna Teaching Unit designed to introduce teachers and students to the Moon Mappers citizen scientist project.



Observe the Moon Night

Video from September 2012 by CosmoQuest

Abiogenesis - who did life start

The Theory of Evolution provides a rich explanation for why we see the diversity of life here on Earth. There are so many lines of evidence, from genetic drift to the fossil record. But how did life start?

How did things go from a collection of raw materials to the building blocks of life, giving evolution and natural selection a way to take over? That first step, from non-life to life is called "abiogenesis", and it's one of the most important questions science can answer.



Astronomy Cast Episode 272 Abiogenesis

Curiosity Update September 12, 2012

Continuing this week, Emily Lakdawalla and Fraser Cain explore the science that is being done by the Mars Science Lander, Curiosity.



CosmoQuest Weekly Science Hour, Curiosity Update September 12, 2012

Virtual Star Party Sep 9th, 2012

Astronomy / universe



Telescopes by Mike Phillips and John Kramer.
Commentary by Gary Gonnella, Scott Lewis, and Pamela Gay.
Hosted by Fraser Cain.

Virtual Star Party August 26, 2012

Telescopes by Gary Gonella, John Kramer, Mike C., Cory S., David R., and Stuart Forman. Commentary by Scot Lewis, Thad Szabo, Emily Lakdawalla, and Amy Shira Teitel. Hosted by Fraser Cain



CosmoQuest: Virtual Star Party August 26, 2012