Show Scripts
-The Sun enters a new 11 year solar cycle.
-NASA's Messenger flies-by the planet Mercury.
-Fabulous radar images from the South Pole of the Moon.
- A new NASA spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will deliver startling images of the sun with ten times more detail than HDTV. The goal of the mission is to help scientists zoom in on solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, thus improving forcasts of solar storms.
- "NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn and its' fabulous moons continues to make incredible discoveries. In our next episode we will explore Saturn's largest moon - Titan - with huge hydrocarbon resources and a possible ocean beneath the surface, as well as the gushing geyers of Enceladus."
Remember Astronomy Day on May 10, 2008
New Feature
- Dr. Geller answers your e-mail questions.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells us what's up in May.
June 1, 2008 Episode 3 - No script available for Ep 3.
Greg Redfern and Greg Piepol report from the North East Astronomy Forum and Telescope Show in Suffern, New York.
- Dr. Geller of George Mason University answers your e-mail questions.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells us what’s up in June.
Greg Redfern reports on the Mars Phoenix Mission and and the confirmation of frozen water on Mars. The SWIFT Space Telescope takes it's first ever picture of an exploding Super Nova and Dr. Derek Fox of Penn State University fills us in on SWIFT.
- Dr. Harold Geller of George Mason University answers your e-mail questions.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells us what's up in July.
Greg Redfern reports on the Mars Phoenix Mission and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photos showing more evidence of water on Mars. Makemake who? A new Plutoid class planet in our solar system is named. ESA's Mars Express Spacecraft takes some detailed pictures of Phobos.
- Dr. Harold Geller of George Mason University answers your e-mail questions.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells us what's up in August.
Episode 6 - With over 100,000 orbits of Earth the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-125 prepares for an October 8th launch to the Hubble Space Telescope for Service Mission 4 (SM4) as Space Shuttle Endeavor sits ready for launch if needed for safety. Greg Redfern talks about the Mission with Edward Ruitberg, Deputy Program manager for HST.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells us what's up in our August sky.
Will India became a member of the Lunar Club. Join us as we explore Chandrayaan-1 India's Lunar orbiter spacecraft.More on NASA's extended Mars Phoenix Mission and the Rosetta spacecraft scheduled to land on a comet in 2014. Dr. Pamela Gay tells us about the Portal To The Universe.
-Astrocast.TV welcomes a new co-host. Dr. Lori Feaga joins the Astrocast.TV team. See Oct 1st Press Release.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells us all about the World Wide Star Count.
November 1, 2008 - Episode 8 - An Asteroid, 2008 TC3 was predicted with near 100% certainty to hit the Earth and yes, it did! Also an update on Hubble Service Mission 4.
- The Interstellar Boundary Explorer is on its way to explore the Solar Systems final frontier. Is Pluto a Planet? Follow the debate. For more information on IBEX and the great Pluto debate check out my Blog.
- Katie Moore from the U.S. National Air and Space Museum tells asks us all about the World Wide Star Count. Send Katie an e-mail and tell us what you saw. katiewwst@astrocast.tv. Katie will also update us on our November sky.
