Adler Night and Day

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning April 10, 2012 through April 23, 2012. In this episode: Sprites and elves, ball lightning, aurora, and halos... what are all these weird things in our sky?!

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning March 27, 2012 through April 9, 2012. In this episode: How has the Moon's appearance evolved over the course of time and how has our understanding of it changed over the years?

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning March 13, 2012 through March 27, 2012. In this episode: There's a lot of stuff in our Universe. However, only so much of it is visible. Where's the other stuff? What is it? Enter dark matter... the mysterious stuff we're only just beginning to understand!

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning February 28, 2012 through March 12, 2012. In this episode: Far Horizons engages participants in the design, building and launching of experiments flown to altitudes above 100,000 feet on high altitude balloons and offers a real world opportunity for students and the community to participate in science mathematics, physics and engineering challenges.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning February 14, 2012 through February 27, 2012. In this episode: Dawn, as a mission belonging to NASA’s Discovery Program, delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what's never been attempted before. In Dawn’s case, it is orbiting one member of the main asteroid belt, Vesta, before heading to gather yet more data at a second, Ceres. Mark Sykes of the Dawn Mission talks about the objects of Dawn's attention and what questions the mission seeks to answer.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning January 31, 2012 through February 13, 2012. In this episode: The NuSTAR mission will deploy the first focusing telescopes to image the sky in the high energy X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum. NuSTAR will take a census of collapsed stars and black holes of different sizes by surveying regions surrounding the center of own Milky Way Galaxy and performing deep observations of the extragalactic sky; map recently-synthesized material in young supernova remnants to understand how stars explode and how elements are created; and understand what powers relativistic jets of particles from the most extreme active galaxies hosting supermassive black holes.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning January 17, 2012 through January 30, 2012. In this episode: Just what is the Maya Calendar and does it really foretell the doom of civilization?

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning January 3, 2012 through January 16, 2012. In this episode: It might seem that there isn't much going on in spaceflight now that the Shuttle has been retired but 2012 is packed full with all sorts of fantastic space adventures!

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning December 20, 2011 through January 2, 2011. In this episode: So much happened in the year 2011! From the retirement of the Shuttle program to the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory and everything in between... make sure to catch up on all things space science!

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning December 6, 2011 through December 19, 2011. In this episode: The James Webb Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2018. The Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning November 22, 2011 through December 5, 2011. In this episode: Donald Lubowich of Hofstra University talks about using various outreach programs such as the "Stars on Sundays" series to increase science literacy.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning November 8, 2011 through November 21, 2011. In this episode: The Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled for launch on November 25th. Learn more about this mission and our newest Martian rover, Curiosity.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning October 25, 2011 through October 7, 2011. In this episode: We're talking to Bill Hartmann about the geography Mars and what the features and composition tells us about our red neighbor.

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning October 11, 2011 through October 25, 2011. In this episode: We have science fiction writer Nick Sagan! The episode contains a portion that aired as part of the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. This episode contains that portion, as well as an extended conversation!

Up-to-date night sky activity beginning September 27, 2011 through October 10, 2011. In this episode: We're talking about the the MicroObservatory Online Telescope. Learn about this fantastic project and how you can participate.