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Saturday, February 18th, 2012Under British Skies – Episode 21 – Phobos-Grunt and BBC Stargazing Live
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
In this months episode, we talked about the crash of the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, BBC Stargazing Live, and the upcoming Astrofest. We also welcomed Jenny Winder, our new Skyguide to the Under British Skies team.
The shownotes for this episode can be downloaded here: Episode 21 Shownotes
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AFM Welcomes New Team Members!
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Astronomy.FM is pleased to announce three new team members: Craig Levin as a Website Editor, John James as our Klout and Empire Manager, and John Richards as our Twitter Manager. (Watch for their bios on our new Meet the Team section, coming soon.) Welcome to all three – we look forward to a fun outreach journey in the months ahead!
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AFM’s Event^Horizon! 2011.10.07 Special Guest: JOHN SCHROER
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Tonight on “The Event^Horizon!” we were joined by John Schroer, planetarium director of the Detroit Science Center and producer of the TV program “Astronomy For Everyone“. John is one of the movers and shakers of amateur astronomy, and science outreach, in Michigan.
The guys also talked about observing meteor showers with amateur radio equipment and an FM radio.
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WNMC’s First*Light! 2011.10.07: Steve Jobs + Nobel + Draconids
Friday, October 7th, 2011(originally broadcast on Michigan public broadcasting’s WNMC FM+TV on October 7th, 2011)
Every week join “First*Light”! for a look at news from the intersection of science & society! “First*Light!” originates from the studios of Michigan public broadcasting’s WNMC/FM+TV. It airs each Friday LIVE at 7:20am (U.S. Eastern time), and repeats on Astronomy.FM every Saturday / Sunday (see our broadcast schedule for times). “First*Light!” is hosted by David Gault, Eric Hines, and Michael Foerster.
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Coronas & Quasars: Exploring the Edge – Live Webcast
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
When: Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 1800 GMT, 2 PM EDT
Join Marleen Bryan, Christian Sasse and Carolin Liefke for a live AFM webcast exploring two different, but related, subject:
The edges of stars and the edges of the Universe.
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(Added after the broadcast) It was a great show! Many thanks to Christian and Carolin for one of the best AFM*Radio programs yet!
A recording of the program is being prepared, and it’s availability will be posted here when the file is available.
NASA’s NightSky Network – Slides
Friday, May 20th, 2011Click here to see the slides that accompany tonight’s Astro*Class Presentation, by the NASA NightSky Network:
“Stargazers, Starfarers, and Kepler”, by Dr. Jeffrey Van Cleve
http://www.astrosociety.org/nsntelecon/
Event^Horizon Daily! Endeavour has Issues
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is still on the launchpad, as NASA flight engineers debug a hydraulic issue. Sawyer Rosenstein of “Talking Space” gives us an update on mission status, and of the current best guess as to launch date.
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