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This section is dedicated to broadcasting twice monthly podcasts of the latest Astronomy news. The February podcasts, for example, will contain 2 podcasted shows, covering the periods February 1 - 14, and then February 15 - 28. Each show, starting from January 2018, will also contain a short version and a long version. The short version is meant to be a brief re-cap of all the content in the longer version.
The podcasts before February 2018 are arranged differently. These podcasts cover time periods before this website was set up, so I will go back in time to do some coverage of these time periods.
The months covering September 2017 - January 2018 will be done in 1 month segments. The 9 month period from Dec 2016 - August 2017 will be covered in a single podcast. Nearly all information is from the website www.nasa.gov
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April 15 TESS Briefings & Events
April 13 TESS Hopes To Find Exoplanets Outside the Solar System
April 13 Scientists Start Drafting Rules for Space Warfare
April 12 While Out Hunting Planets, TESS Will Also Help Astronomers Study Stars
April 11 Juno Provides Infrared Tour of Jupiter's North Pole
April 11 Giving Roots and Shoots Their Space: The Advanced Plant Habitat APH
April 11 NASA Marshall Engineer Takes Safety to Another Level on Comm Flight
Apr 11 Once Upon a Time in a Thunderstorm
April 9 HST Finds an Einstein Ring
April 6 Intricate Clouds of Jupiter
April 5 NASA Scientist Collects Bits of the Solar System from Antarctic Glaciers
April 5 45 Years Ago: Pioneer 11 Launched to Study Jupiter & Saturn
April 5 HST: 1st Precise Distance Measurement of Ancient Globular Star Cluster
April 4 A Galaxy Without Much Dark Matter
See list for April 1-15 Long Version
March 29 NASA Invites Media to Discuss the Next Mission to Mars
March 28 NASA Discusses Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter TESS
March 27 Mars Curiosity Rover Gets Ready For Its Next Adventure
March 27 Webb Requires More Time For Testing and Evaluation
March 26 How Much Space Junk Hits Earth?
March 23 Final TV Appearance, Stephen Hawking Imagines Colonizing Alien Worlds
March 23 Hubble's Exquisite View of a Stellar Nursery
March 22 Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000
March 19 Marshall Advances 3-D Printed Engine Nozzle Technology
March 19 Predicting the Lifespan of Materials in Space
March 19 The Edge of the Night
March 19 Going for Atmospheric GOLD
March 18 Expect a Warm Wet Spring Across the U.S.
See list for March 16 -31 Long Version
March 16 Rose Colored Jupiter
March 15 Greenland Is Literally Cracking Apart and Flooding the World
March 15 NASA Science Heading to Space Ranges From Atmosphere to Microbes
March 14 NASA Remembers Dr. Stephen Hawking
March 14 NASA Dawn Reveals Recent changes on Ceres' Surface
March 12 Dramatic Dione
March 12 Arrested Development: Hubble Finds Relic Galaxy Close to Home
March 9 Hubble's Galaxy Full of Cosmic Lighthouses
March 9 Kepler Shifts View Toward Targets In Constellation Virgo
March 9 James Webb Telescope to Make a Splash in Search for Water
March 7 Earth is a Beaming Becon in Kepler's Eyes
March 6 Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping Young Star 4796A
March 5 Far Northern Permafrost May Unleash Carbon Within Decades
March 2 Beaming With the Light of Millions of Suns
March 2 Hubble's Frenzy of Stars
March 1 NASA Finds Large Amounts of Water in Exoplanets's Atmosphere
See list for March 1 - 15 Long Version
February 28 Sounding Rocket Mission Will Trace Auroral Winds
February 28 Curiosity Tests New Way to Drill on Mars
February 28 NASA Insight Mission Arrives at Launch Sight
February 28 Space Laser Completes 2,000 Mile Road Trip
February 27 Orion Crew Access Ar Installed on Mobile Launcher
February 27 NASA Astronauts Return to Earth, Land Safely in Kazakhstan
February 26 Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Study
February 23 SDO Reveals How a Sun Magnetic Cage Stopped a Solar Eruption
February 22 NASA Deep-Space Rocket Intertank Loaded for Shipment, Testing
February 22 On Second Thought, Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile
February 22 Fresh Evidence for a New Physics in the Universe
February 22 Mars Odyssey Observes Martian Moons
February 22 How Spacecraft Testing Enabled Bone Marrow Research
February 20 Pulsating Auroras and THEMIS
February 20 New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus
February 20 Final Frontier: Images of Saturn
See list for February 15 - 28 Long Version
February 13 Last Outpost Extends Human Presence Into Deep Space
February 13 Survey Ice Shattered Records
February 13 Eclipse Season Starts With NASA SDO
February 13 A Piece of Mars is Going Home
February 13 A Song of Ice and Light
February 8 Detailed Timeline of the Image Recovery
February 8 Hew Horizons Record Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
February 8 Tiny Crystals Get a Close Look From Mars Rover
February 6 Two Small Asteroids Safely Pass Earth This Week
February 6 NASA Tests an Atomic Deep Space Clock
February 5 Contrasting Crescents On Saturn
February 3 Juno Completes its 10th Science Orbit
February 2 NASA Newly Rediscovered IMAGE Mission Provided Key Aurora Research
February 1 Second RS-25 Engine Hot Fire Test
See list for February 1 -14 News Long Version
January 31 NASA Twins Study Confirms Preliminary Findings
January 24 The SpaceX Dragon After its Release From the Canadarm2
January 24 The SpaceX Dragon and the ISS Orbit Above Brazil
January 11 Researchers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Burping - Twice
January 11 Planets Needed: NASA Study Shows Disk Pattern Can Self-Generate
January 11 Webb's Houston Highlights
January 11 Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way
See list for January 2018 News Long Version
December 21 NASA Tests 3-D Printed Rocket Part to Reduce Future SLS Engine Costs
December 19 Bridging the Gap: NASA Studies Human Body in Space for One Year
December 19 A New Twist in the Dark Matter Tale
December 18 NASA Solves How a Jupiter Jet Stream Shifts Into Reverse
December 15 "The Last Jedi" to Appear Aboard the International Space Station
December 14 Artificial Intelligence: NASA Discovers 8th Planet Around Distant Star
December 12 Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geological Activity
December 5 How Hardy is Webb? Questions and Answers About Webb's Toughnes
See list for December 2017 News Long Version
November 22 Icebound Detector Reveals How Ghostly Neutrinos Stopped Cold
November 22 Antarctic Detector Stops High Energy Neutrinos in Their Tracks
November 21 Galileo Quartet Fueled and Ready to Fly
November 20 Solar System's First Interstellar Traveler Dazzles Scientists
November 17 350,000 Star Systems to be Mapped by Warwick Astronomers
November 16 In Mystery of Positrons, Dark Matter is the Leading Candidate
November 15 Astronomers Discover New Type of Cosmic Explosion
November 4 Return of a Comet: C 96P Spotted by ESA and NASA Satellites
October 30 Rosetta finds Cometary Plume Powered from Below
October 26 Scientists Detecct Comets Outside Our Solar System
October 18 UVA Astronomer Selected to Guide New Horizons Spacecraft
October 17 Earth's New Travelling Buddy is an Asteroid, Not Space Junk
October 12 Reconstructing Cassini's Final Plunge Into Saturn
October 6 Team Observes Primitive Comet 1.5 Billion Miles From the Sun
September 26 Large Meteor Impacts Drove Plate-Tectonic Processes in the Early Earth
September 22 Dino-Killing Asteroid Sped Up Bird Evolution
September 18 Cassini Spacecraft Ends Historic Exploration of Saturn
September 15 Researchers Create First Global Map of Water in Moon's Soil
September 12 Cassini Makes Its Good-bye Kiss Flyby of Titan
August 31 NASA's Asteroid Bound Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth
August 18 Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on September 1, 2017
July 31 Upcoming Asteroid Flyby Helps NASA Planetary Defense Network
June 20 Magnetic Tug Could Target Dead Satellites
March 24 Upper Part of Earth's Magnetic Field Reveals a Dramatic Past
February 21 Researcher Proposes New Theories About the Nature of Earth's Iron
February 21 Why Are There Different Flavors of Iron in the Solar System
Dec 4, 2016 Searching for Trojan Asteroids, Earth's Unseen Companions