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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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37. Old balding astronomers feel good knowing mnemonics - 24 September 2009
24/09/2009Often banal and factually greivous kitsch message.
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36. Ed White's glove - 19 September 2009
19/09/2009What goes around comes around, or is it what comes... Anyway this is all about coming and going - around.
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34. Project Constellation 2of2 The manned spacecraft - 10 September 2009
10/09/2009Really hoping some of these things might fly one day.
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33. Project Constellation 1of2 The launch systems - 3 September 2009
03/09/2009A peek under the hood of Project Constellation finds a mix of do-able and aspirational components.
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32. The ups and downs of space advocacy - 27 August 2009
27/08/2009Cheap Astronomy rants about space advocacy and tries to tell a joke to an alien.
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31. Analemmas and the equation of time - 20 August 2009
20/08/2009What sounds like a great title for a Doctor Who episode ends up being a podcast about sundials.
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30. STS 127 - Just another Space Shuttle mission - 13 August 2009
13/08/2009Is there really such a thing as just another space shuttle mission?
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29. No place like home - 06 August 2009
06/08/2009If there was a planet somewhere in the universe able to support life, what would it be like? Hmmm...
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28. A sidewalk astronomer - 30 July 2009
30/07/2009A long overdue podcast about the world's most famous cheap astronomer.
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26. Apollo 11 3of3 Getting back again - 24 July 2009
24/07/2009Reunited, the three intrepid explorers turn their ship for home.
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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.