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Playlists by Lisa from January 4, 1991 through March 16, 2024 (page 1 of 16)

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Lisa
Lots of April things spotted in the garden on March 16

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Lisa
3C 273 is the brightest quasar in the sky and the second to be discovered. In 1963, Cyril Hazard used an occultation by the moon to establish its position.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Lisa
I can really use that extra hour tonight, except I've just been told that I am having a moment and the clocks go ahead. Yes, they do....sunlight at 6:30pm tomorrow!

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Lisa
I did not get a new Planting Zone

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Lisa
The Carina Nebula boasts three rare Wolf-Rayets (WR), the hottest stars in the universe. They illuminate and ionize a dark nebula called a Bok globule.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Lisa
Time Warp to 1997

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Lisa
Last of the duets

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Lisa
Unusually, Gamma Velorum, a blue star, has been recently renamed. Its new name Regor, "Roger" backwards, honors Roger Chaffee, an astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Lisa
I am glad it is going to snow and be cold in February because it's winter and it's supposed to be like that

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Lisa
Last of the Australia stories

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Lisa
The Cat's Eye nebula is one of the most complex of all planetary nebulae, possibly due to the interaction of a close binary system at its center.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Lisa
I got nothing

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Lisa
Puppis is a rich southern constellation straddlng the Milky Way that was originally part of the ancient Greek constellation of Argo Navis until it was divided into three parts in the 18th century

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Lisa
It would be nice to have some cold weather to kill off all the ticks

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Lisa
What is this thing called a studio?

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Lisa
The distinctive shape of the stunning Hourglass Nebula has fired much debate over its formation among astronomers.

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Lisa
Back from travels with all the stories

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Lisa
There is music on the radio right now

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Lisa
I am too tired to go get the astronomy book off the shelf so everybody gets to make up their own fun space fact this week

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Lisa
Death Car Favorites 2023 Part 2

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Lisa
Death Car Favorites 2023 Part 1

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Lisa
Last "Live in Studio" show for a while

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Lisa
Ensisheim is the oldest meteorite fall that can be positively dated. It was carefully preserved by being hung from the roof of the parish church in Ensisheim, Alsace.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Lisa
Somehow it got to be Thanksgiving already

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Lisa
The Christmas cacti are blooming

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Lisa
Did you know it's fundraising week? I bet you didn't know it was fundraising week. Guess what? It's fundraising week.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Lisa
Why are leaves falling on a nice, early summer afternoon?

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Lisa
9,000 years ago a Milky Way star exploded in a supernova, leaving behind the Veil Nebula. This nebula is physically huge, containing one filament, NGC 6960, known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, and another, NGC 6995, known as The Bat Nebula.

Saturday, October 21, 2023

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Saturday, and It's Raining Again. We've Returned to Days Ending in "Y"

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Lisa
It's Saturday and it's not raining. Clearly not a day ending in "y"

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Lisa
LDN 43 is a nebula which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. In the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light from background stars.

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Lisa
Soggy Weekend. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Lisa
Another soggy weekend

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Lisa
Van Maanen 2 is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Lisa
Autumn equinox happened at 02:50 this morning

Saturday, September 16, 2023

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Lisa
There's Nothing Quite Like A Fire Alarm In a Torrential Downpour

Saturday, September 2, 2023

Lisa
A lovely day to be in the basement

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Lisa
The Cartwheel Galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy but is now recovering from a head-on collision with a smaller runaway galaxy many millions of years earlier in its history.

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Lisa
Not in the mood to type in this playlist

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Lisa
Did it rain again? I think it rained again. I'm pretty sure it did.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Lisa
Situated in the globular cluster M4, the pulsar PSR B1620-26 rotates more than 90 times per second and has a mass of about 1.3 solar masses.

Saturday, August 12, 2023

Lisa
Back from Maine, now broadcasting live from Walker Basement

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Lisa
Floating in an innertube on a pond in Maine

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Lisa
In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and recorded its brightness changes in exceptional detail. This brilliant new object helped astronomers reject the idea that the heavens were immutable.

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Lisa
Submitted without comment

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Lisa
The calla lilies bloomed

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Lisa
Prometheus is a small, potato-shaped moon orbiting just inside Saturn's multi-stranded F ring. They are connected by a fine thread of material, and it is possible that Prometheus is pulling particles out of the F ring.

Saturday, July 15, 2023

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Lisa
Mushrooms Everywhere

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

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The meteorite Glatton was discovered by English civil servant Arthur Pettifor on May 5, 1991. While out planting onions, he heard a loud whining noise and noticed a conifer waving around. Underneath the tree was a small lukewarm stone.

Saturday, July 1, 2023

Lisa
Long weekend with the promise of more than one day where it doesn't rain

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Lisa
No Death Car texting today. Connection between chair and keyboard is out for maintenance.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Lisa
The Jewel Box, also known as the Kappa Crusis cluster, is an open cluster of about 100 stars and is about 29 light-years across. At less than 20 million years old, it is one of the youngest open clusters known.

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Lisa
All this rain is going to make fabulous mushrooms once it gets warm

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Lisa
OMG the sun...quick go do gardening before it rains again

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Lisa
Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of a highly evolved and extremely dense galaxy cluster. It contains more than 250 mostly elliptical galaxies in a volume of space roughly 1 million light-years across.

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Lisa
If Dozens Of Starlings Are Going To Squabble Incessantly From Dawn Until Dusk Could They At Least Have A Pretty Song Instead Of An Atonal Shriek

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Lisa
Starlings are the cockroaches of the avian world

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Lisa
Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe, and was introduced in the early 17th century on a celestial globe created by the Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Lisa
Night of the Lepus

Saturday, May 13, 2023

Lisa
We Need Rain

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Lisa
Ovda Regio is one of a handful of highland regions on Venus that displays a type of complex ridge terrain known as tessera

Saturday, May 6, 2023

Lisa
The rabbits ate everything

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Lisa
House overrun with plants waiting patiently for it to be warm enough to go outside

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Lisa
The constellation Cetus is depicted on old star charts as an unlikely-looking, almost comical, hybrid sea monster.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Lisa
In Desperate Need of a Cough Button

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Lisa
Stuffy edition

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Lisa
The Antennae Galaxies appear as a central bright double knot of material, with two long streamers of of stars stretching in opposite directions, resembling an insect's antennae

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Lisa
At the hockey game

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Lisa
Most depressing spring ever

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Lisa
For Those Times You Find Yourself Aimlessly Drifting Through the Aftermath of a Supernova

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Lisa
I saw crocus yesteday

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Lisa
Time to Pull the Mulch and Rake the Rest of the Leaves

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Lisa
Cause and Effect

Saturday, March 11, 2023

Lisa
Tomorrow is a 23 hour day. Sucks to be us all.

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Lisa
Snow! Cold! Glad that winter is winter again! Can't have spring without winter.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Lisa
Embarking on a new mission in the two person shuttlecraft

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Lisa
Hey look, it's winter!

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Lisa
This is certainly nice weather for daily walks

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Lisa
Scruffy Edition (aka You Sound Terrible)

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Lisa
For Those Times When A Virus Changes All Your Mates Into Large Porcupines, Then You Remember That You Are A Member Of A Race Of Large Porcupines And Perhaps You Had Too Much Tree Sap Last Night

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Lisa
Submitted without comment

Saturday, January 28, 2023

Lisa
Today was a day that ended in "y"

Monday, January 23, 2023

Lisa
Lisa Death Car invades your background again

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Lisa
It's like it's actually winter

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Lisa
For Those Times You Wonder Whether It Snows On Jupiter

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Lisa
I'd call this snow accumulation "Peach Fuzz"

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Lisa
Time to deconstruct the Christmas decor

Monday, January 2, 2023

Lisa
Lisa Filling in for DJ Lipika

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Lisa
Intergalactic Cheeseing Hour/Cheese for Eels
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Cheese and Magazines/Calling the Cheese
Lisa
James Dean Cheese Car Experience
Lisa
Cheese Fixation
Lisa
King Cheese
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Cheese Case/Cheese Box

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Lisa
The Challenge of Coordinating an Intergalactic Zoom Call Where Every Participant Has a Different Day Length

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Lisa
College radio for a cold Christmas Eve
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