SciFri Radio: Stars

SciFri Radio: Summer Sky Guide
Summer nights are made for stargazing. We'll get a guide to what to look for in the skies in the months ahead.

SciFri Radio: New Views of the Universe from Herschel and Planck Telescopes
Two new space telescopes are en route to their post over 1.5 million km from Earth. We'll talk about the ESA's Herschel and Planck observatories.

SciFri Radio: Heating Up on a Distant Planet
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that experiences temperature swings of as much as 700 degrees within a matter of hours -- and are working...

SciFri Radio: New Milky Way Measurements
The Milky Way galaxy is bigger, heavier, and faster-spinning than researchers once thought.

SciFri Radio: Solar Winds
New research suggests that the solar wind is weaker now than it has been in the past. What does that mean, and why does it matter?

SciFri Radio: Solar Systems and a Mysterious Cosmic Ghost
How does a disk of gas and dust turn into a solar system?A new study suggests conditions had to be just right to make our solar system. Plus, a...

SciFri Radio: Watching a Supernova
Astronomers conducting observations of one recent supernova happened to have an orbiting observatory aimed in the right direction collecting data...

SciFri Radio: Sensing the Atmosphere of Distant Planets
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have been able to detect the chemical signature of methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a...

SciFri Radio: South Pole Telescope
Brrrrr! We check in on research in Antarctica.

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SciFri Newsbriefs: Stars

Newsbrief: So long, Ulysses!
The sun-studying spacecraft is about to end its epic odyssey.