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.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
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I am glad it is going to snow and be cold in February because it's winter and it's supposed to be like that
Saturday, February 3, 2024
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Last of the Australia stories
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.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
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I got nothing
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
Saturday, January 13, 2024
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It would be nice to have some cold weather to kill off all the ticks
Saturday, January 6, 2024
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What is this thing called a studio?
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.
Saturday, December 30, 2023
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Back from travels with all the stories
Saturday, December 23, 2023
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There is music on the radio right now
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
Saturday, December 9, 2023
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Death Car Favorites 2023 Part 2
Saturday, December 2, 2023
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Death Car Favorites 2023 Part 1
Saturday, November 25, 2023
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Last "Live in Studio" show for a while
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.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
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Somehow it got to be Thanksgiving already
Saturday, November 11, 2023
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The Christmas cacti are blooming
Saturday, November 4, 2023
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Did you know it's fundraising week? I bet you didn't know it was fundraising week. Guess what? It's fundraising week.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
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Why are leaves falling on a nice, early summer afternoon?
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.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
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Saturday, and It's Raining Again. We've Returned to Days Ending in "Y"
Saturday, October 14, 2023
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It's Saturday and it's not raining. Clearly not a day ending in "y"
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.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
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Soggy Weekend. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
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Another soggy weekend
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.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Autumn equinox happened at 02:50 this morning
Saturday, September 16, 2023
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Saturday, September 9, 2023
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There's Nothing Quite Like A Fire Alarm In a Torrential Downpour
Saturday, September 2, 2023
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A lovely day to be in the basement
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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.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
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Not in the mood to type in this playlist
Saturday, August 19, 2023
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Did it rain again? I think it rained again. I'm pretty sure it did.
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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.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
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Back from Maine, now broadcasting live from Walker Basement
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Floating in an innertube on a pond in Maine
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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.
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Submitted without comment
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The calla lilies bloomed
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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.
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Mushrooms Everywhere
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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.
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Long weekend with the promise of more than one day where it doesn't rain
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No Death Car texting today. Connection between chair and keyboard is out for maintenance.
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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.
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All this rain is going to make fabulous mushrooms once it gets warm
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OMG the sun...quick go do gardening before it rains again
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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.
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If Dozens Of Starlings Are Going To Squabble Incessantly From Dawn Until Dusk Could They At Least Have A Pretty Song Instead Of An Atonal Shriek
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Starlings are the cockroaches of the avian world
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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
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Night of the Lepus
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We Need Rain
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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
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The rabbits ate everything
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House overrun with plants waiting patiently for it to be warm enough to go outside
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The constellation Cetus is depicted on old star charts as an unlikely-looking, almost comical, hybrid sea monster.
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In Desperate Need of a Cough Button
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Stuffy edition
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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
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At the hockey game
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Most depressing spring ever
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For Those Times You Find Yourself Aimlessly Drifting Through the Aftermath of a Supernova
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I saw crocus yesteday
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Time to Pull the Mulch and Rake the Rest of the Leaves
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Cause and Effect
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Tomorrow is a 23 hour day. Sucks to be us all.
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Snow! Cold! Glad that winter is winter again! Can't have spring without winter.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Embarking on a new mission in the two person shuttlecraft
Saturday, February 25, 2023
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Hey look, it's winter!
Saturday, February 18, 2023
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This is certainly nice weather for daily walks
Saturday, February 11, 2023
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Scruffy Edition (aka You Sound Terrible)
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
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Submitted without comment
Saturday, January 28, 2023
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Today was a day that ended in "y"
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Lisa Death Car invades your background again
Saturday, January 21, 2023
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It's like it's actually winter
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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For Those Times You Wonder Whether It Snows On Jupiter
Saturday, January 14, 2023
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I'd call this snow accumulation "Peach Fuzz"
Saturday, January 7, 2023
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Time to deconstruct the Christmas decor
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Lisa Filling in for DJ Lipika
Saturday, December 31, 2022
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Intergalactic Cheeseing Hour/Cheese for Eels
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Cheese and Magazines/Calling the Cheese
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James Dean Cheese Car Experience
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Cheese Fixation
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King Cheese
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Cheese Case/Cheese Box
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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The Challenge of Coordinating an Intergalactic Zoom Call Where Every Participant Has a Different Day Length
Saturday, December 24, 2022
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College radio for a cold Christmas Eve
Saturday, December 17, 2022
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Back to same old garden variety Death Car
Saturday, December 10, 2022
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Death Car Favorites Pt. 2
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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For Those Times You Question Whether Your Surroundings Are From A Different Universe
Saturday, December 3, 2022
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Death Car Favorites Pt. 1
Saturday, November 26, 2022
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I worked off Thanksgiving dinner hauling the festive holiday decorations out of the attic.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
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How Did It Get To Be Thanksgiving Already?
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Consigned to the Furthest Reaches of the Universe
