Sunset flimflam! Auroras! Eclipse tips! Let’s get to know the center of our solar system, the Sun, as the April 8th eclipse approaches. What is it made of? How big is it? Will it explode soon? Why can’t I stare at it? And why is it wearing sunglasses? Dr. Michael Kirk and almost-Dr. India Jackson are brilliant and charming Heliologists who have both worked with NASA’s heliophysics departments. Get to know them and also the giant hot plasma ball we revolve around. You’ll never (not look at it) the same.
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Watch NASA’s Total Solar Eclipse Live Broadcast on April 8, 2024
Donations went to Astronomers Without Borders and the Grady Memorial Hospital Health Foundation
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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jacob Chaffee
Managing Director: Susan Hale
Scheduling producer: Noel Dilworth
Transcripts by Aveline Malek
Website by Kelly R. Dwyer
Theme song by Nick Thorburn
Foraging Ecology (EATING WILD PLANTS) Encore with @BlackForager, Alexis Nikole Nelson
Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 2 with Rosemary Mosco
Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 1 with Rosemary Mosco
Smologies #42: TREES with J. Casey Clapp
Field Trip: I Chased the 2024 Eclipse with Umbraphiles
Smologies #41: PELICANS with Juita Martinez
Disgustology (REPULSION TO GROSS STUFF) with Paul Rozin
Field Trip: Alie’s Mystery Surgery!
Smologies #40: HAIR with Valerie Horsley
Oikology (DECLUTTERING) Encore with Jamie & Filip Hord + Joe Ferrari
Functional Morphology (ANATOMY) Encore with Joy Reidenberg
Smologies #39: ANCIENT ROME with Darius Arya
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Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 1 with Ronald Gamble, Jr.
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