Our Island Universe

@OIslandUniverse

is a take on all things space; how what goes on up there affects us down here. It is hosted by astronomer

Morehead, KY
Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2017.

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  1. Sunday was , which is an important astronomical holiday. Like Halloween, it is a day - dates midway between a solstice & an equinox. Whether a sees its shadow or not, we *know* that spring is just around the corner!

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  2. 28. sij

    Every decade since the 1960s has been warmer than the one before w/2019 the 2nd hottest. Is there any debate within the scientific community about ? What’s the evidence that our climate is changing & that our use of fossil fuels is the reason?

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  3. 22. sij

    Betelgeuse, the bright red star in the armpit of Orion the Hunter, is going to explode at any time. this winter is only half as bright as it was last winter. Has it already exploded?! What does that mean for us here on Earth?

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  4. 14. sij

    410 years ago, an Italian made a series of startling discoveries that would overturn 1,400 years of human thought. His discoveries would lead the Catholic Church to sentence him to house arrest. What were the discoveries that were so controversial & WHY?!

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  5. 8. sij

    Traveling at some 68,000 mph, made its closest approach to our star on January 5. We were nearly 3 and a half million miles closer to the Sun then we will be on July 4. Still think distance is the reason for the seasons?!

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  6. On December 25, a long time ago, a boy was born that made an enormous contribution to our understanding of the world around us. His discoveries revolutionized how we view & understand the cosmos above us as well as down here on Earth.

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  7. ... at 11:19p EST on Saturday, December 21 to be exact. Virtually every culture had celebrations at this time of the year as they celebrated the lighter days to come & dealt with the season of dormancy, darkness, & cold.

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  8. Adorned atop many a Christmas tree will be a star. The Christmas Star, also known as the star of Bethlehem, is thought to have led the Magi to Bethlehem. But what was the Christmas star? Where do we even begin?! The answer is...

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  9. Americans will finish their dinner with a slice of homemade pie. Maybe it's a recipe that has been passed down the generations. Even so, if you really wanted to make a pie from scratch, “you must first create the Universe”.

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  10. , a weekly podcast series about how what happens “up there” affects us “down here”, is now available on ! is a co-production of ’s & our affiliate . Please subscribe!

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  11. What’s ’s BIGGEST export? Maybe you think its horses or bourbon? Maybe coal or tobacco? Nope. It’s . At $14 billion per year & growing, there is only 1 other state in the US that does more than we do.

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  12. Science is a human endeavor driven by our innate curiosity to understand why the world is the way it is and not some other way. One of science's greatest ambassadors, and one of my scientific heroes, was Dr. Carl Sagan.

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  13. How did we figure out the absolute size scale of our using high school geometry? Early on the morning of Monday, 11/11/19, Mercury will cross the solar disk. Using the our ancestors learned just how far away the Sun truly is!

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  14. Tomorrow night millions of people will go out trick or treating. Did you know that is actually an important astronomical date?! What is the connection between Halloween and the stars? Check out this week's episode of .

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  15. Why are there 7 days in a week? A day is how long it takes the Earth to rotate once on its axis. A year is how long it takes the Earth to go once around the Sun. A month is roughly how long it takes the Moon to go through its phases. Why did we get 7 days?

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  16. Imagine going to bed Thursday night but waking up the 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 to learn that 10 days have been struck from the calendar. This is exactly what happened In 1582... All because we fell out of synch with the stars.

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  17. Hot dogs and chilli are ready for tonight’s night! Come join us for talks beginning at 7 with telescopes on the sky at 830! Hot dogs and chilli are courtesy of the Morehead State University Geological Society!

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  18. What’s the connection between red barns and stars?! On this week’s segment of from and ’s , learn why we can thank our lucky stars for those iconic red barns!

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  19. Does the Sun always rise due east and set due west? How does the amount of sunlight and darkness vary throughout the year? Our ancestors figured out the answer to these 2 simple questions thousands of years ago.…

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  20. ~100 years ago, 2 astronomers debated the nature of faint, fuzzy patches of light seen in telescopic images. What are they? The idea of other galaxies - "island universes" like our own Milky Way - was a controversial idea.

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