DJ:
All DJs
Show:
Space is Deep
What:
Playlists for Space is Deep from July 15, 2020 through February 14, 2024 (page 1 of 2)

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Space is Deep
Unusually, Gamma Velorum, a blue star, has been recently renamed. Its new name Regor, "Roger" backwards, honors Roger Chaffee, an astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Space is Deep
It takes a long time to travel across the universe - here’s some long songs to help pass the time

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Space is Deep
The Cat's Eye nebula is one of the most complex of all planetary nebulae, possibly due to the interaction of a close binary system at its center.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Space is Deep
Analyzing cosmic nothing might explain everything - “empty” areas of the universe called voids could solve the cosmos’ greatest mysteries.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Space is Deep
Puppis is a rich southern constellation straddlng the Milky Way that was originally part of the ancient Greek constellation of Argo Navis until it was divided into three parts in the 18th century

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Space is Deep
First foray into the universe for 2024. I have no fascinating space news to smooth the way.

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Space is Deep
The distinctive shape of the stunning Hourglass Nebula has fired much debate over its formation among astronomers.

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Space is Deep
Just a few of my favorite things from 2023

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Space is Deep
I am too tired to go get the astronomy book off the shelf so everybody gets to make up their own fun space fact this week

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Space is Deep
The Geminids meteor showers are peaking Dec 13 & 14th in N. America. The Geminids are unusual as the shooting stars are caused by an asteroid, and not a comet. The y appear to emanate from the constellation Gemini in the southern sky.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Space is Deep
 

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Space is Deep
The Existence of Dark matter in our universe has been confirmed by scientific observations, including recent pictures from the Webb telescope. However, no experimental observation of Dark matter has been reported.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Space is Deep
Ensisheim is the oldest meteorite fall that can be positively dated. It was carefully preserved by being hung from the roof of the parish church in Ensisheim, Alsace.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Space is Deep
Thanks to everyone who pledged during our fundraiser!

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Space is Deep
A Cosmic Fundraising Soundtrack

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Space is Deep
9,000 years ago a Milky Way star exploded in a supernova, leaving behind the Veil Nebula. This nebula is physically huge, containing one filament, NGC 6960, known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, and another, NGC 6995, known as The Bat Nebula.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Space is Deep
The Milky Way is warped. Our galaxy’s wobbly disc might be the result of a tilted halo of the universe’s mysterious dark matter. Or the cause might be the psych/space-rock radio waves of Space is Deep.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Space is Deep
LDN 43 is a nebula which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. In the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light from background stars.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Space is Deep
Astronomers spotted shockwaves shaking the web of the universe, could the cause be Space is Deep as we broadcast across the astral plane?

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Space is Deep
Van Maanen 2 is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Space is Deep
Scientists say the Milky Way's disc is warped. Is that because its dark matter halo is tilted?

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Space is Deep
 

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Space is Deep
The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Space is Deep
The Cartwheel Galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy but is now recovering from a head-on collision with a smaller runaway galaxy many millions of years earlier in its history.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Space is Deep
And clouds obscured the stars...

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Space is Deep
Situated in the globular cluster M4, the pulsar PSR B1620-26 rotates more than 90 times per second and has a mass of about 1.3 solar masses.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Space is Deep
This weekend is the Perseids Meteor shower, named for the constellation they appear to radiate from (Perseus) in the northeastern sky. The meteors occur as the earth passes through debris - Ice & rocks, left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle.

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Space is Deep
In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and recorded its brightness changes in exceptional detail. This brilliant new object helped astronomers reject the idea that the heavens were immutable.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Space is Deep
16 Psyche is a large metallic asteroid in our asteroid belt, discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale De Gasparis & named after the Greek Goddess Psyche (Goddess of the Soul).

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Space is Deep
Prometheus is a small, potato-shaped moon orbiting just inside Saturn's multi-stranded F ring. They are connected by a fine thread of material, and it is possible that Prometheus is pulling particles out of the F ring.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Space is Deep
Evolution

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Space is Deep
The meteorite Glatton was discovered by English civil servant Arthur Pettifor on May 5, 1991. While out planting onions, he heard a loud whining noise and noticed a conifer waving around. Underneath the tree was a small lukewarm stone.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Space is Deep
The answer is blowing in the cosmic winds...

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Space is Deep
The Jewel Box, also known as the Kappa Crusis cluster, is an open cluster of about 100 stars and is about 29 light-years across. At less than 20 million years old, it is one of the youngest open clusters known.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Space is Deep
Scientists have created a space rock soundscape of a black hole star system called V404 Cygni using sonfication, a method that assigns sounds to collected telescope data.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Space is Deep
Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of a highly evolved and extremely dense galaxy cluster. It contains more than 250 mostly elliptical galaxies in a volume of space roughly 1 million light-years across.

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Space is Deep
Galactic bubbles are more complex than previously imagined

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Space is Deep
Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe, and was introduced in the early 17th century on a celestial globe created by the Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Space is Deep
This week’s fun space fact - our sun is actually quite puny compared to many other stars.

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Space is Deep
Ovda Regio is one of a handful of highland regions on Venus that displays a type of complex ridge terrain known as tessera

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Space is Deep
New study says medium sized black holes eat stars like “messy toddlers” - taking a few “bites" then flinging the remains across the galaxy. Black holes need galactic bibs?

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Space is Deep
The constellation Cetus is depicted on old star charts as an unlikely-looking, almost comical, hybrid sea monster.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Space is Deep
New discoveries in the vibrations of the universe

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Space is Deep
The Antennae Galaxies appear as a central bright double knot of material, with two long streamers of of stars stretching in opposite directions, resembling an insect's antennae

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Space is Deep
Neutron star mergers cause Furbies* in space

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Space is Deep
For Those Times You Find Yourself Aimlessly Drifting Through the Aftermath of a Supernova

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Space is Deep
Are there seasons in space?

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Space is Deep
Cause and Effect

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Space is Deep
There are always new discoveries in space

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Space is Deep
Embarking on a new mission in the two person shuttlecraft

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Space is Deep
Retiring the spacecraft

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Space is Deep
If The aliens are invading Montana in February - Good Luck!

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Space is Deep
For Those Times When A Virus Changes All Your Mates Into Large Porcupines, Then You Remember That You Are A Member Of A Race Of Large Porcupines And Perhaps You Had Too Much Tree Sap Last Night

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Space is Deep
I missed my stop on the bus and now we're in another galaxy

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Space is Deep
The eerie sound of an extraterrestrial whirlwind

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Space is Deep
For Those Times You Wonder Whether It Snows On Jupiter

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Space is Deep
Gravitational fields forever

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Space is Deep
Time warp in space - Happy new year!

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Space is Deep
The Challenge of Coordinating an Intergalactic Zoom Call Where Every Participant Has a Different Day Length

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Space is Deep
The trans-galactic highway is icy today

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Space is Deep
Surfing on the galactic currents of 2022

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times You Question Whether Your Surroundings Are From A Different Universe

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Space is Deep
We haven't even left the exosphere and I already have motion sickness

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Space is Deep
Scientists say Neutron stars are like a box of chocolates, but I'm not going to try tasting one.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Space is Deep
Consigned to the Furthest Reaches of the Universe

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Space is Deep
Thanks for putting fuel in the rocket boosters

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Space is Deep
Help keep the WMBR Starship flying - please donate during our 2022 fundraiser!

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times When You Walk Through The Hydroponics Area And Encounter A Monolith

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Space is Deep
When life gives you a black hole, make spaghetti

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Space is Deep
Long Trips to Space linked to possible brain damage, and here I thought it was all that loud music I’ve listened to

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times When You Simply Run Out Of Class M Planets

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Space is Deep
I have nothing but my dreams and a one-way Amtrak ticket to the moon

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Space is Deep
I was going to hitch a ride on the Artemis1 rocket, but there was a failure to launch

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Time You Listen To A Certain Number of Loud Music Tracks On Deck 15, Then Listen To A Different Number Of Quiet Music Tracks On Deck 10

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Space is Deep
The solar wind is ruining my hairdo

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Space is Deep
On vacation in deep space

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times When The Replicator Gains Sentience And Incorporates Random Pharmaceuticals Into Your Hot Chocolate

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Space is Deep
We had to turn around halfway to Mars because the captain forgot her passport

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Space is Deep
There is a bubble of space that surrounds our solar system & blocks cosmic rays. Scientists say it’s shaped like a deflated croissant. Now I’m hungry.

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Space is Deep
Music For Malfunctioning Guidance Systems

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Space is Deep
 

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Space is Deep
Astronomers detect a persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy, or maybe they’re really listening to this show.

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times When Your Mission Is To Explore The New Shelf

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Space is Deep
Let's pull some G's!

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Space is Deep
The universe is out of alignment, and my spaceship has been thrown off course. I think I'm lost.

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Space is Deep
Solstice Edition: For Those Times You Are Serenely Floating Through Space and Get Picked Up By A Prevaling Current of Space Manatee Farts

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Space is Deep
We ran out of freeze-dried ice cream

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Space is Deep
Keeping Time with Cosmic Rays

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Space is Deep
A Study On What It Might Sound Like Inside A Vorlon Encounter Suit

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Space is Deep
The soundtrack to your weekly, routine commute to Alpha Centauri

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Space is Deep
Is there Springtime in space?

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times You Need To Cross An Asteroid Belt To Get To The Nebula On The Other Side

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Space is Deep
The speed limit is only five light-years per hour out here?!

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Space is Deep
Comets, Space Dust, & The Music of the Spheres.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Space is Deep
Quantum Tunneling Through a Wall

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Space is Deep
Have you ever tried to parallel park on Saturn?

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Space is Deep
Exploring the secrets of the universe

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Space is Deep
For Those Times When You Go All The Places At The Same Time

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Space is Deep
I just blew my life savings on a timeshare on Mars

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Space is Deep
Dancing with the stars
The views and opinions presented here do not necessarily reflect those of the Staff and Management of WMBR, the Technology Broadcasting Corporation, or MIT.