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Today's Astronomy, Space and Science Podcasts

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Astronomy, Space & Science Podcasts (Audio Podcast)

Cool Movie: SDO Destroys a Sundog 17 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm  NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a sundog and destroyed it. Must-see videos of the event captured shock waves from the rocket billowing through the sundog, eliciting cries of delight and amazement from the crowd below. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.  Listen to the Podcast 3D Sun for the iPhone 16 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm  Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.  Listen to the Podcast Ep. 177: Mysteries of the Milky Way, Part 2 14 Feb 2010 at 4:00pm  We survived our first group of mysteries, so now we move onto our second set of stuff of amazing Milky Way mysteries. How many spiral arms does our galaxy have, and why does everything keep dying every 60 million years or so?  Listen to the Podcast Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers? 9 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm  Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) surge through thunderstorms at about the same altitude where commercial airliners fly. Do these blasts of gamma-radiation pose a hazard to air travelers? Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.  Listen to the Podcast Ep. 176: Mysteries of the Milky Way, Part 1 7 Feb 2010 at 4:00pm  We've wrapped up our Solar System mysteries and now we move onto the Milky Way mysteries, and the some of the general mysteries of galaxies. From blue stragglers to Eta Carinae... what's going on?  Listen to the Podcast Trigger Happy Star Formations 5 Feb 2010 at 1:00pm  From recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large nebula's scattered all around our galaxy, act as incubators for newborn stars to ignite and grow.  Listen to the Podcast Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission 4 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm  The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's inner dynamo, and--researchers hope--unravel the mysteries of solar variability. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.  Listen to the Podcast Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision 1 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.  Listen to the Podcast Ep. 175: Mysteries of the Solar System, Part 2 31 Jan 2010 at 4:00pm  Apparently this is at least a 2 part series. This week we continue examining some of the baffling mysteries of the Solar System, where we fill your head with more questions than answers. Sometimes we've just got to share the enjoyment of not knowing the answer.  Listen to the Podcast Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes 28 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm  There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley! Get this podcast story.  Listen to the Podcast