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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org Today's 2 topics: - NASA's Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday. Australia, Spain, and California host its three sites. These facilities are spaced nearly evenly around the world to provide continuous communication with any spacecraft. - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. These data provide direct evidence of the amount of water which is present on each planet.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

Water is essential to life on our planet. Recently, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. Astronomers divided the infrared light from these planets into its component colors to see which are present and which are missing. These data provide direct evidence of the amount of water which is present on each planet.

Listen to this NASA documentary about the Hubble Space Telescope. If you want to watch the public-domain film go to: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasas-documentary-film-hubble25. The end of this documentary will be played on this show next week! Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal The music heard on this show is 'Marimba On The Hunt' by Daniel Birch (freemusicarchive.com).

Listen to this NASA documentary about the Hubble Space Telescope. If you want to watch the public-domain film go to: www.nasa.gov/feature/nasas-docu…tary-film-hubble25. The end of this documentary will be played on this show next week! Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ The music heard on this show is 'Marimba On The Hunt' by Daniel Birch (freemusicarchive.com). Soundtrack Bench Talk: The Week in Science | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope | Sept 16, 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Subscribe to the podcast and notes: https://qurantalk.podbean.com/ Quran translation on iOS: https://apple.co/2C1YGXj Additional Resources: http://www.masjidtucson.org Contact: qurantalk (at) gmail (dot) com   [40:13] He is the One who continuously shows you His proofs, and sends down to you from the sky provisions. Only those who totally submit will be able to take heed. Process of you hearing this sound  I am pushing oxygen through my mouth  My vocal chords vibrating mouth and tongue are manipulating that air to generate a sound Then forget the aspect that my voice is being digitized and processed and transforming my analog output to digital 1s and 0s that is being beamed to your device that is generating sound that is being picked up by your ears that vibrates little hairs that generate electrical pulses that your brain is transcribing into speech and applying meaning to that is stimulating thought Not to mention what else you may be doing while listening - driving, exercising, doing house chores  Are you in awe of God’s creation?  [64:3] He created the heavens and the earth for a specific purpose, designed you and perfected your design, then to Him is the final destiny. The fact that you can recognize faces of millions of people apart or feel love when you see the face of a loved one Are you in awe? The fact that God designed a system where are parasympathetic nervous system, your heart, lungs etc. can operate without you consciously being aware of it Have you ever got a cut and you see the scab form - you didn’t have to will that scab to form You didn’t have to will your body to heal this all happens naturally Or the fact that we can sleep That a chemical is released throughout our body that paralyzes our body so we don’t hurt ourselves or others in our sleep when we dream Mike Birbiglia comedian has a condition where his body doesn’t release this chemical that paralyzes his body Also, heard of a professor who had another condition where if he was anxious or excited his body would faulty produce this chemical and he would be paralyzed but fully conscious and just have to wait till he could gain access to his body again The fact that we don’t urinate or dedicate when we sleep  [82:7] The One who created you, designed you, and perfected you. So much to be in awe of God’s design  The more we learn the more we have to be in awe of  Pulp Fiction Genes are composed of DNA, and it is predicted that there are over 3 billion basepairs in the human genome. Therefore it would take 6 billions letters in plain text to represent the entire genome. There are ~300,000 letters in the Quran, so to fit the entire human genome would be equivalent to 10,000 Qurans Human Genome Project - Craig Venture - we are more confused now than we were before we started [40:64] GOD is the One who rendered the earth habitable for you, and the sky a formidable structure, and He designed you, and designed you well. He is the One who provides you with good provisions. Such is GOD your Lord; Most Exalted is GOD, Lord of the universe. Membrane for a cell let alone for a body The fact that we can even conduct scientific endeavors  The Big Bang Theory Confirmed [21:30] Do the unbelievers not realize that the heaven and the earth used to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they believe? Footnote [21:31] And we placed on earth stabilizers, lest it tumbles with them, and we placed straight roads therein, that they may be guided. [21:32] And we rendered the sky a guarded ceiling. Yet, they are totally oblivious to all the portents therein. [21:33] And He is the One who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; each floating in its own orbit. [51:47] We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it. April 29th, 2019 - New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Hubble_measurements_confirm_universe_is_expanding_faster_than_expected_999.html [41:11] Then He turned to the sky, when it was still gas, and said to it, and to the earth, "Come into existence, willingly or unwillingly." They said, "We come willingly." [31:10] He created the heavens without pillars that you can see. He established on earth stabilizers (mountains) lest it tumbles with you, and He spread on it all kinds of creatures. We send down from the sky water to grow all kinds of beautiful plants. [13:2] GOD is the One who raised the heavens without pillars that you can see, then assumed all authority. He committed the sun and the moon, each running (in its orbit) for a predetermined period. He controls all things, and explains the revelations, that you may attain certainty about meeting your Lord. Dark energy 68% Dark Matter 27% Visible matter 5% [27:88] When you look at the mountains, you think that they are standing still. But they are moving, like the clouds. Such is the manufacture of GOD, who perfected everything. He is fully Cognizant of everything you do. Plate-tectonics  Equivalent to the skin of an apple to the apple itself  Mountains are like spikes Also, what would the winds be without mountains What if there was no wind?     Impact on polination     Impact on early voyages  With of our Lord’s marvels can we deny? sun Eclipse atmosphere By volume, dry air contains 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases.  [41:53] We will show them our proofs in the horizons, and within themselves, until they realize that this is the truth. Is your Lord not sufficient as a witness of all things?  

Welcome: Bobak Ferdowsi   Who wants to be an astronaut? Well, there’s an app for that! Created by Finnish startup Space Nation, the Space Nation Navigator mobile app includes boot camp-style fitness workouts, exams, and even a story-based adventure element. “These are designed to test and train not just users’ physical abilities, but also their cognitive and social skills — such as problem-solving or managing a crisis.” As an astronaut in training, you can collect points and reach increasingly difficult levels, with the potential of winning prizes at certain stages of the program. After three 12-week cycles, somewhere around 100 trainees from all over the world will be selected to participate in a real-life training camp. Of those selected, 12 will then be invited to participate in a more intensive 10-week astronaut training camp in Iceland, which will be filmed and broadcast. The winning contender will get a free trip to the cosmos!   Congratulations RocketLab and Welcome to the Space Race! RocketLab has completed 2 successful test launches of it’s Electron Rocket and has a plan to launch once a month by the end of 2018. The Electron Rocket can carry 150kg and only costs $5 million, while SpaceX’s Falcon 9 can launch 22,800 kg for $62 million. RocketLab will revolutionize the small-satallite rocket industry. Founder Peter Beck says, “But now, the payoff will come. With no other launch providers anywhere close, the remote Mahia site [in New Zealand] has no range issues. And the company has a license to launch as frequently as every 72 hours for the next 30 years. "This is absolutely critical for our business strategy,"   NASA’s newest and most exciting missions, but first some background Where the is water there is life. About 71 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water. With over 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth, our oceans contain about 96.5 percent of all the planet’s water. Less than 3 percent of all water on Earth is actually okay to drink. But are we alone? Billions of years ago, Venus may have been the first planet in our solar system with an ocean. Venus doesn’t have a strong global magnetic field like Earth, which helps to protect our atmosphere. AND a runaway greenhouse effect raised temperatures enough to boil off all of the water, which was carried into space by solar wind. Mars used to also be more Earth-like, with a thick atmosphere, plenty of water, and oceans as big as ours. Also billions of years ago however, Mars lost its protective magnetic field, leaving it vulnerable solar wind. Scientists estimate that Mars has lost approximately 87 percent of the water it had all of that time ago. For those of your wondering, Solar winds happen when the corona, or the sun's outer layer, reaches temperatures of up to 2 million degrees Fahrenheit. At this level, the sun's gravity can't hold on to the rapidly moving particles, and it streams away from the star. If the material carried by the solar wind reached a planet's surface, its radiation would do severe damage to any life that might exist. Earth's magnetic field serves as a shield, redirecting the material around the planet so that it streams beyond it.   Even today, Earth isn’t the only ocean world in our solar system. Jupiter’s Moons Ganymede (largest Moon in our Solar System) Callisto Saturn’s Moon’s Enceladus Titan Mimas (MYE-mus) Neptune’s Moon Triton (possible) Dwarf Planet Pluto   All these being said, there is one that stands out above the rest, enough so that NASA is sending a spacecraft there in the 2020s. This is Jupiter’s Moon, Europa, soon to be joined by NASA’s Europa Clipper. Europa is currently thought to be the most likely place in our solar system to find life…. But why you might ask? Water. Scientists think that below its icy surface, lies an extremely salty ocean. The ultimate aim of Europa Clipper is to determine if Europa is habitable, possessing all three of the ingredients necessary for life: liquid water, chemical ingredients, and energy sources sufficient to enable biology. However, because of the pushing and pulling effects that Jupiter’s gravity has on Europa’s interior, it is like a hotbed of radiation. Meaning, it may be extremely dangerous for spacecraft remain there for too long long, let alone humans. Due to this radiation, the Europa Clipper won’t actually orbit Europa itself, but it will actually orbit Jupiter, passing really close to Europa every 2 weeks about 45 times during the mission, rangin from 1700 miles to 16 miles above the surface. Think of it like running through sprinklers. Claudia Alexander (Project Manager for the Galileo Mission) says to imagine that the water is radiation. As kids you would start from afar, then run through and leave quickly, only to come back around for another run. During each flyby, the Europa Clipper will image the Europa's icy surface, find out what it’s made of and figure out what is inside that huge icy shell. Why? Why go there?   NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed water vapor above the south polar region of Europa in 2012, providing potential evidence of water plumes. If these plumes actually exist, they will confirm a subsurface ocean. And flying through the plumes will allow us to learn its chemical makeup Helps address the question: Are we alone in the universe? The Europa clipper with be fully fitted with a super nice camera, an ice-penetrating radar that will help determine the depth of the icy shell, and other instruments to determine the strength of Europa’s Magnetic field, how salty the oceans are, and search for water particles in the atmosphere.   Fun Facts from theplanets.org “Europa is the sixth closest moon of Jupiter and is the smallest of the Galilean moons discovered by Galileo. The other Galilean moons are Io, Ganymede and Callisto. Even though it is the smallest of the Galilean moons, Europa is still the sixth largest of the 181 moons in the solar system.” “Europa was officially discovered on January 8, 1610 but Galileo may have actually discovered the moon the day before. He was using a low-powered telescope and couldn’t actually distinguish Europa from the other Galilean moon Io until the next day.” “The discovery of Europa and the other Galilean Moons led to the discovery of a sun-centered solar system.” “Europa is the smoothest object in the Solar System.” “Europa is about 4.5 Billion years old, but its icy shell is only 20-180 million years old.” “Radiation on Europa is strong enough to kill a human in one day.” “One day on Europa lasts as long as a year - 3.5 Earth days.” “Europa is tidally locked to Jupiter.”  

EXPLICIT MATERIAL Alex brings you the information you should know as New Horizons makes its approach to Pluto and it's moons. Alex explains the history of why Pluto became classified as a "dwarf planet" in 2006. Learn a little bit about the mission & what to expect during the time until New Horizons reaches its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. Also, Alex goes over the different data the science team is planned to gather during their time at Pluto. An artist's drawing shows the New Horizons spacecraft as it nears Pluto. The moon Charon is in the distance Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwes In 2005, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to identify two new moons orbiting Pluto. Pluto is in the center. The moon Charon is just below it. The newly discovered moons, Nix and Hydra, are to the right of Pluto and Charon. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST A drawing of the solar system shows Pluto's tilted orbit. Pluto's orbital path angles 17 degrees above the line, or plane, where the eight planets orbit. Image Credit:  NASA Topics in this Episode: Pluto, Why is Pluto a dwarf planet Is Pluto being reconsidered a planet? New Horizons mission (start and voyage details) Geminid Meteor Showers 2014 What classifies a planet? AU (the International Astronomical Union) "Disgruntled scientists" Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The temperature changes on the surface of Pluto The rocket launch system for the mission Jupiter Gravity Assist What happens during a 9 year mission History of the Pluto Keiper Express Cassini, Saturn, Pluto-Charon encounter Infrared & ultraviolet spectra   Atmosphere Charon Styx Nix Kerberos Hydra Kuiper Belt Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) (Possible) extended mission details Space Links: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons/on-plutos-doorstep-new-horizons-spacecraft-awakens-for-encounter/#.VI-mj4eMpJA http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/index.html#.VI-O8IeMpJA Kuiper Belt (NASA) Explanation - via youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXoZwERokmI Kuiper Belt Encounters by New Horizons http://vimeo.com/45883622

E. Margaret Burbidge is considered to be one of the most renowned observational astronomers and astrophysicists of our time. She has been a co-investigator on the team to build the Faint Object Spectrograph for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Her earliest research work concerned chemical abundance in stars of various types and culminated in the now classic work Synthesis of the Elements in Stars by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle (1957). The authors concluded that all the chemical elements were produced in stars. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23343]

E. Margaret Burbidge is considered to be one of the most renowned observational astronomers and astrophysicists of our time. She has been a co-investigator on the team to build the Faint Object Spectrograph for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Her earliest research work concerned chemical abundance in stars of various types and culminated in the now classic work Synthesis of the Elements in Stars by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle (1957). The authors concluded that all the chemical elements were produced in stars. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23343]

E. Margaret Burbidge is a renowned observational astronomer and astrophysicist. She was a co-investigator on the team to build the Faint Object Spectrograph for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Her earliest research work concerned chemical abundance in stars of various types and culminated in the now classic work Synthesis of the Elements in Stars by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle (1957). The authors concluded that all the chemical elements were produced in stars. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23342]

E. Margaret Burbidge is a renowned observational astronomer and astrophysicist. She was a co-investigator on the team to build the Faint Object Spectrograph for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Her earliest research work concerned chemical abundance in stars of various types and culminated in the now classic work Synthesis of the Elements in Stars by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle (1957). The authors concluded that all the chemical elements were produced in stars. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23342]