Show #7: Do Minor Planets get Carded?

By Aaron on April 24, 2005 at 9:22 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

Title: Do Minor Planets Get Carded?
Castdate: 050425
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Travis, Pamela
Topics: asteroids, minor planets, spitzer space telescope
Engineered: Travis

No, Pamela doesn’t really like the Yankees. She really doesn’t care for sports at all. This is what she gets for being on a show with 2 guys.

As promised, the color of dust:

Interview with Dr. Bryan Gaensler

By Slacker on April 20, 2005 at 11:53 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

Castdate: 050421
Disembodied Voices: Travis, Pamela, Aaron and Bryan Gaensler
Topics: Astronomers, Australia, magnetars, supernovae, fame, Boston, the CfA
Engineered: Travis

Pamela, Travis and Aaron interviewed Dr. Bryan Gaensler in the courtyard of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Bryan is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard and was the 1999 Young Australian of the Year. He works with Pamela and Aaron took a class from him once. Their verdict? All around nice guy and smart! (i.e., not one of us).

Pix:

Pamela, Bryan, Travis (Aaron is the invisible one in the middle)


The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Concord Ave. entrance.


Parking ticket Aaron and Travis got for parking during the interview. Want to help pay for it? Donate! :)

Show #6: Death of a Disco Star

By Aaron on April 18, 2005 at 10:46 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

Episode #6
Title: Death of a Disco Star
Subjects: white dwarfs, sakurai’s object, v4334 sgr, planetary nebulae
CastDate: 050418
Written By: Aaron Price and actually made correct by Pamela Gay
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle

Kudos to anyone who can place the reference for the show’s title…

Show #5: Big Bad Astronomer

By Slacker on April 11, 2005 at 2:51 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

“Tall and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking,
And when she passes
each one she passes goes a-a-ah!

When she walks she’s like a samba that,
Swings so cool and sways so gentle,
That when she passes
each one she passes goes a-a-ah!…”

…oops, sorry about that. It’s summer time and I’m getting carried away. Back to the Show Notes.

Show #5
Title: The Big Bad Astronomer
Subject: Skepticism, interview
CastDate: 050412
Written By: Slacker Astronomy & The Bad Astronomer
Disembodied Voices: Pamela, Aaron and Phil Plait
Engineered: Pamela Gay

Don’t forget that the entire unedited interview is available on the Slacker Astronomy Extra Feed.

Pamela und Phil:

MM #1: The Big Bang Rambles On

By Aaron on April 7, 2005 at 3:21 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments
Monolithic Monologue #1
Title: Life, the Universe and Microbes on Raisins
Subject: Big Bang, CMB, pigeons
CastDate: 050407
Show Tyrant: Pamela L. Gay
WMAP image of CMB

Show #4: Going BOOM

By Aaron on April 4, 2005 at 3:21 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

These suicidal stars lurk in Westerlund 1, one of the densiest and richest star clusters known, and the first super star cluster found in our own Milky Way. (above right, ESO image)

Episode #4
Title: Going BOOM!
Subjects: star clusters, Wolf-Rayet stars, black holes
CastDate: 050404
Written By: Pamela Gay w/additional material by Aaron Price
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay with our Imperial Overlord
Engineered: Travis Searle
2MASS image

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