© 2024
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

constellation

  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    Bastille Day is here and we had our own Independence Day fireworks just recently as well. So speaking of explosions, unimaginable violence is up in the sky too – and keeps happening. The greatest are supernovas. Tune in to hear how these cause a star’s total destruction.
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    What a year we’re having. First we got to see a super-rare total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely covered the Sun. And now this week, almost as rare, the Moon will eclipse a far more distant star, a famous blue one. When a star is blocked by the Moon, it’s called an occultation, and it rarely happens to one of the few truly bright stars that happen to be positioned along the Moon’s path.
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    All the interactions in the universe can be explained by gravity, electromagnetism, and the two forces, strong and weak, that operate only within atoms. This week: The String Theory.
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    The June Full Moon, coming up this Thursday night, will be very strange. For the first time since 1985, Full Moon happens precisely on the summer solstice. As it approaches that rare milestone, check it out on June 18, because that marks the turning point in the moonlight department.
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    On Tuesday night the crescent Moon hovers next to the famous blue star Regulus. As the brightest luminary in Leo the Lion, the ancient Persians considered it one of the “four royal stars,” famous for sitting in the center of the zodiac, which is why it sometimes meets the Moon.
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    The dark matter problem started with the famous Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky in 1933, when he studied galaxy motion in the giant Coma group. What he perceived was astonishing. Each member moved so quickly, it should have no problem escaping the gravitational glue of the entire assembly. Zwicky realized that this galaxy cluster — and all others, it soon turned out — shouldn't even exist. Yet there they were.
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    In the category of cool naked-eye sky events, you’ve got eclipses, comets, meteor showers, and the event happening right now – a bright conjunction. Tune in to hear about one of the best conjunctions of the year!
  • Strange Universe With Bob Berman
    White dwarf stars happen to be some of the strangest stars in our galaxy. These nights they can appear during the next clear evening at nightfall orbiting our closest celestial neighbors: the Dog Star Sirius and Procyon, the main star of the Canis Minor constellation.
  • Melissa McGill has been exhibiting her artwork internationally since 1991 including one-person exhibitions at White Cube, London; Power House, Memphis;…
  • The late-season storm that pummeled the Northeast has ended up being the third-biggest snowstorm ever recorded in South Burlington, Vermont.The National…