Show -2: Fancy Names for Shiny Lights

Episode #-2
Title: “Fancy Names For Shiny Lights”
Subjects: Aurorae, Northern Lights, Saturn, Jupiter, Galaga
CastDate: 050228
Written By: Aaron Price
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle

• Transcript
• NASA’s press release and pics
• Space.com about Saturn’s Aurorae
• Space.com about bright aurorae in 2002
• Aaron waxes poetic about the same aurora
• Space Weather.com

Show -3: The GammaBoom Song

Episode #-3
Title: “Your Attention Requested”
Subject: Giant magnetar flare from SGR 1806-20, or things that go boom.
CastDate: 050221
Written By: Aaron Price
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle

• Transcript
• Sky & Telescope
• Space.com article
• Science@NASA article about the interesting discovery of magnetars in 1998

Did anyone notice Travis’ awesome opening tune?

Edit: We already found an error. Magnetars aren’t beamed like GRBs. I’m sure this won’t be the last!

Show -3 1/2: Dark Matter, The Other White Meat

Episode #-3
Title: “Dark Matter”
CastDate: 050216
Written By: Pamela Gay
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle

• Chandra Press Release (with graphic)
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Press Release
• Transcript

Show -4: Saturn’s Warm Poles

Episode #-4
Title: “Saturn’s Hot Spot”
CastDate: 050214
Written By: Aaron Price
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle

• CNN article on the hot spot
• JPL press release
• Show Transcript

You can tell it is our first show. We made an error in the first 5 seconds which no one caught till we went live. Anyone listening who caught it gets a banana-flavored cigar.