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Playlists for Space is Deep from July 15, 2020 through September 1, 2024 (page 1 of 2)

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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In 1610, Galileo's telescope revealed that the milky smear across the night sky is not a nebula but a field of tiny stars. Immanuel Kent guessed that the stars form a rotating disk and that the Earth is inside it.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

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In 1977 on August 20th, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched to visit the outer planets. In Dec. 2018 it passed Neptune and entered interstellar space. Voyager 2 is still transmitting data 47 years later!

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

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A dense ball of 10.5 million stars, Omega Centauri is the biggest and brightest of about 200 globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. The average distance between its stars is just one tenth of a light year.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

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The sun’s corona can be 200 times hotter than the sun’s surface, despite being farther away from the ultimate source of heat at the sun’s core

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

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Comet Encke was "discovered" in 1786, 1795,1805, and 1818 by different astronomers. These comets were found to be the same only after orbital calculations in 1819 by the German astronomer Johann Encke, who then predicted its return in 1822.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

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A new look at how light bends as it travels through the universe could point to an alternative theory of gravity

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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Retrograde motion is an effect of changing perspective. Inferior planets Mercury and Venus show retrograde motion on either side of inferior conjunction. They "overtake" Earth as they pass between Earth and the Sun.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

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Supermassive black hole winds blowing at 36 million mph can sculpt entire galaxies

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

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First discovered in 1826, the Bug Nebula is one of the brightest planetary nebulae. The central star is thought to have an extremely high temperature, and its intense heat lights up the surrounding stellar material.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

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Some scientists speculate that the universe is shaped like a doughnut, instead of stretching to infinity. It’s a topology that could eventually be mapped.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

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RCW 49 is one of the most productive regions of star formation to have been found in the Milky Way. It spans a distance of about 350 light-years, and it is thought that over 2200 stars reside within it.

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

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New discoveries from the far reaches of space

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

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Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe. The giraffe's long neck can be visualized as stretching around the north celestial pole toward Ursa Minor and Draco.

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

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The Multiverse could be much much bigger than we ever imagined

Thursday, May 23, 2024

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The Horsehead Nebula is lit by a quintuple star system that bathes the clouds in UV light. Sigma Ordonis A and B are an orbiting pair of blue stars; C,D, and E will eventually spin off as solo stars

Thursday, May 16, 2024

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Astronomers just discovered WASP-193b, an extremely low-density giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years from Earth. WASP-193b is 50% larger than Jupiter, but 7 times less massive, giving it a density comparable to cotton candy

Thursday, May 9, 2024

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NASA has created a visualization of what it would be like to fall into a black hole. It is worth those 40 seconds of your life.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

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Exploding Stars, Black Hole Outbursts, Gamma-rays & Dark Matter...

Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Albireo is regarded as one of the finest multiple star systems in the night sky. It consists of a golden-colored giant star and a cooler blue-dwarf star. Albireo is easily separated through a small telescope.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

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The total solar eclipse was awesome!

Thursday, April 11, 2024

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Little is known about dark energy, except that it's repulsive. This strange force causes matter to scatter rather than attract. Dark energy makes up 68% of the universe's mass-energy density.

Thursday, April 4, 2024

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The Heliosphere - made of solar wind, solar transients, and the interplanetary magnetic field, acts as our solar system’s personal shield- protecting the planets by absorbing potentially damaging galactic cosmic rays.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Enaiposha is 3 times bigger and 8 times as massive as Earth. The planet's density means a chunk of it must be lighter than rock but heavier than gas. It is likely that Enaiposha is a water world.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

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A star system located 3,000 light-years away called T Coronae Borealis is predicted to go nova between now & Sept. These Outbursts happen approx every 80 years, and can be seen with the naked eye

Thursday, March 14, 2024

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3C 273 is the brightest quasar in the sky and the second to be discovered. In 1963, Cyril Hazard used an occultation by the moon to establish its position.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

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The Galactic Winds of Change have blown us to 4am - wake up call #1

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

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The Carina Nebula boasts three rare Wolf-Rayets (WR), the hottest stars in the universe. They illuminate and ionize a dark nebula called a Bok globule.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

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A defunct school bus sized Eurpoean satellite launched in 1995 will crash into the earth’s atmosphere sometime this week - most likely Wednesday morning.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

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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

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

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

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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

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

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

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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

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

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

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

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

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Just a few of my favorite things from 2023

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

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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

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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

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

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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

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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

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Thanks to everyone who pledged during our fundraiser!

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

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A Cosmic Fundraising Soundtrack

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

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The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

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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

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And clouds obscured the stars...

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Evolution

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

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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

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The answer is blowing in the cosmic winds...

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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Galactic bubbles are more complex than previously imagined

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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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

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

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

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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

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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

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

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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New discoveries in the vibrations of the universe

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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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

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Neutron star mergers cause Furbies* in space

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

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

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

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Are there seasons in space?

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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Cause and Effect

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

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There are always new discoveries in space

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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Embarking on a new mission in the two person shuttlecraft

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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Retiring the spacecraft

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

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

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

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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

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

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

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The eerie sound of an extraterrestrial whirlwind

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

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For Those Times You Wonder Whether It Snows On Jupiter

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

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Gravitational fields forever

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

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Time warp in space - Happy new year!

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

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

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

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The trans-galactic highway is icy today

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

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Surfing on the galactic currents of 2022

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

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

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

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

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

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

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

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Consigned to the Furthest Reaches of the Universe

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

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Thanks for putting fuel in the rocket boosters

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

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

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

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When life gives you a black hole, make spaghetti

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

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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

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

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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