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91亚色Universe broadcasts 300th radio show probing unknown night skies

A concept drawing by NASA showing the accretion lines from a black hole.

91亚色 astronomy students and faculty will broadcast the聽 radio program live for the 300th time on聽聽as they point a 40-cm telescope at celestial targets and transmit images live to the Internet. The episode will air Monday, Jan. 23.

91亚色's 40-cm telescope

91亚色's 40-cm telescope

It鈥檚 a milestone that highlights the enthusiasm of 91亚色 U students and faculty to share their fascination for such celestial concepts as dark energy, black holes and variable stars with a worldwide audience. The live radio show runs in tandem with the聽聽Online Public Viewing program, allowing listeners to view images from the telescopes and chat online with the students who are wielding them聽and live with the show鈥檚 host.

Paul Delaney

Paul Delaney

Those hosts include faculty, such as聽Professor Paul Delaney聽of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science at 91亚色, along with current and former students, who spark lively discussions about all things unknown in the Universe.

Tune in on Monday, from 9 to 10:30pm, to hear lead host Delaney start the 300th episode off with how the universe of astronomy and space science has changed in the last seven years.

91亚色Universe has been on the air since 2009 and is the anchor program for Astronomy.FM鈥檚 Astronomy Night in Canada, the only all-astronomy radio station in the known Universe with about 100,000 listeners in 150 countries.

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