Our special Perseids #Meteorwatch presentation, When Planets and Particles Collide – Part II, is now available for on-demand play. Click here to watch and listen. NOTE: The slides may take a moment to load.
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Now Available On-Demand
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Planets, Particles, and the Perseids!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
WHAT: When Planets and Particles Collide – Part II
WHEN: Thursday, August 12, 9:00 pm EDT
WHERE: AFM*Radio
Join us Thursday night on AFM*Radio for a fun slideshow presentation featuring the Perseid Meteor Shower! Adapting last year’s When Planets and Particles Collide, we’ll focus on the Perseids as we talk about the differences between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites; the mechanisms of meteor showers; and the night sky surrounding constellation Perseus. Science and Fun, all rolled into one!
NOTE: This special feature will be presented in Adobe Connect. Log-in here as a “guest”. You can then listen to the audio through the Adobe room, or mute the Adobe sound and listen via AFM*Radio.
Of Fusion Crusts and Strewn Fields: Science Channel’s “Meteorite Men” Make an Impact
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
PHOTO CREDIT: Photograph by Caroline Palmer © Aerolite Meteorites www.aerolite.org
Join us Sunday, March 7 at 9pm EST (March 8 at 0200 UTC), for a special AFM*Radio presentation featuring Geoffrey Notkin of the Science Channel’s Meteorite Men!
In a pre-recorded interview, we speak with Geoff about all things Meteorite Men, including how the show came to be, some surprising results of the show, and his remarkable fourteen-year friendship with Meteorite Men co-host, Steve Arnold. Geoff also discusses some of world’s more fascinating impact sites, the intricacies of meteorite hunting, and his own passions for science, meteorites, and music.
We’re Looking at (and counting) Stars!
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Spring is just around the corner, and so, too, is that time when we get outside and count the stars!
How many stars can you see in your sky?
All across the world, one of the greatest frustrations for astronomers is light pollution. But did you know that light pollution affects more than our views of the night sky? Irresponsible outdoor lighting not only threatens dark skies, it has been linked to dramatic adverse effects on nocturnal wildlife and plants and serious behavioral disorders and physical diseases, including cancer, in humans. And, of course, we all know that irresponsible lighting wastes energy and our hard-earned dollars.
The Sky This Month – March 2010
Monday, March 1st, 2010We’re premiering a new feature, The Sky This Month, here and on AFM*Radio! In addition to our occasional daily report, The Sky Tonight, we’ll also be posting a monthly highlights report, here, and featuring the audio version each month, throughout the month, on AFM*Radio.
Don’t just talk about the stars – Go outside and look at them!
The month of March includes four bright planets, five moon & planet conjunctions, and a whole collection of open star clusters!
Metallicity Show #2 – February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 21st, 2010“Metallicity” is a new spacemusic radio show, produced by A Sky Full of Stars and hosted each month by Rob Keown on AFM*Radio. Show#2 airs on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 0200 UT (Sunday night at 9PM ET). Replays will air every three hours, for the following twenty-four hours. Visit http://astronomy.fm to tune in, and watch this site for upcoming show dates.
When I look up at the nighttime sky on an ice-cold winter’s night, or look deeply into an astrophotograph of a deep-space-object, I feel alone.
The aloneness stirs me up inside, sending chills down my spine, or infuses what I think is my soul with a feeling of humility and awe. It makes me forget about my mortality, or the strife of life, and makes my humanity apparent for a fleeting second.
It is this spaciousness, this immensity, and this boundlessness, that I feel when I listen to the music I play on Metallicity.
