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Sinopse
Cheap Astronomy offers you 10 minute weekly podcasts on a wide range of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, space science and space exploration topics. At Cheap Astronomy you're only as cheap as the telescope you're looking through.
Episódios
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25. Apollo 11 2of3 The landing - 20 July 2009
20/07/2009Everything is going just great... that is, until Neil and Buzz attempt the landing.
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24. Apollo 11 1of3 Getting there - 16 July 2009
16/07/2009Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing - Neil, Buzz and Mike get strapped in for a re-run of their historic mission.
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23. Making things shorter and slower - 09 July 2009
09/07/2009Understanding special relativity is as easy as taking a train ride.
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22. Cosmos 1 - 02 July 2009
02/07/2009Cheap Astronomy puts a baseball cap on backwards and goes sailing on the seas of space-time.
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21. A hard rains a-gonna fall - 25 June 2009
25/06/2009We review recent theories about dinosaur extinction and finds more smoking guns than a Dallas motorcade.
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20. Webb, James Webb - 18 June 2009
18/06/2009Just who the heck is James Webb and why are we naming an infra-red space telescope after him?
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19. GPS - 11 June 2009
11/06/2009If that gadget on your dashboard doesn't instantly get you thinking about astronomy, you're not thinking hard enough.
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18. Why we need neutrino telescopes - 03 June 2009
03/06/2009Cheap Astronomy says 'yes we can' to all those skeptics who doubt the universe's one second old baby photo can ever be observed directly.
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17. Cheap Astronomy - Live in LA! - 28 May 2009
28/05/2009Cheap Astronomy visits La-La land and goes all starry eyed.
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16. Big Bang 2of2 When the dust settled - 21 May 2009
21/05/2009Further courses are served in the ultimate free lunch.
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15. Big Bang 1of2 One crowded second - 14 May 2009
14/05/2009A whole bunch of stuff appears out of nowhere.
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14. What's in a day? - 09 May 2009
09/05/2009Cheap Astronomy explores this puzzling conundrum without ever once using the word sidereal.
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13. A day on the ISS - 30 April 2009
30/04/2009Our future in space means adjusting to daily life in microgravity - so... just how hard is that?
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12. Moonlight - 23 April 2009
23/04/2009If you don't find this interesting, it's about time you asked yourself why you keep downloading astronomy podcasts.
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11. Sunshine - 16 April 2009
16/04/2009A hot, bright thing in the sky that is responsible for a population of beings who invented the words hot and bright.
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9. Chicks in space - 03 April 2009
03/04/2009So... hands up who wants to share a five year mission to seek out new life and new civilisations with a bunch of guys. OK then.
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8. The Space Shuttle Enterprise - 26 March 2009
26/03/2009The line between astronomy and science fiction sometimes blurs.
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7. Love in the continuum of general relativity - 19 March 2009
19/03/2009It's not just about about being on time, being in space is also important.
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6. Indigenous Australian astronomy - 15 March 2009
15/03/2009Some of what is still remembered about Indigenous Australian observations of the night sky.