![1A With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.](/https/whyy.org/wp-content/uploads/91FM/schedulelogos/1a.jpg)
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Hosted by Dave Heller
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All Episodes
NASA’s InSight Mars lander keeps daily records of weather conditions at the Elysium Planitia landing site on the red planet. Last week
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Air Date: February 29, 2020
Listen 06:23
Stardust discovered in a meteorite that landed in Australia more than 50 years ago is up to three billion years older than our solar syst
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Air Date: February 22, 2020
Listen 08:34
Today is Galileo’s 456th birth anniversary. His iconoclastic reputation overshadows his basic raison d’etre at the time – to make a
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Air Date: February 15, 2020
Listen 10:37
Astronomers observing white dwarf stars see spectrographic signatures of previously orbiting gas giant planets. Our gas giants (Jupiter a
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Air Date: February 8, 2020
Listen 07:5349ers, Chiefs & Punxsutawney Phil
49ers, Chiefs & Punxsutawney Phil
This Superbowl Sunday coincides with Groundhog Day – the first cross-quarter da
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Air Date: February 1, 2020
Listen 5:18No Belt Can Contain This Asteroid!
There’s the asteroid belt that we all know between Mars and Jupiter; there’s the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, the most famous inha
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Air Date: January 25, 2020
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The dim red star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 lightyears from Earth, is known to have an EarthPlus-planet in the star’s habitable zone. Now a
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Air Date: January 21, 2020
Listen 09:04
Supernovae are known as element factories, but astronomers are now discovering that merging neutron stars and fast-spinning supernovae ma
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Air Date: January 11, 2020
Listen 05:55
This year’s highlights in the world of astronomy include:
1) An image of the shadow of a black hole resembles an ‘oran
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Air Date: December 28, 2019
Listen 07:08
We’ve arrived at the point in our solar orbit where the number of hours of sunlight are at a minimum for us in the North, and and c
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Air Date: December 23, 2019
Listen 02:48Let There Be Light (but not too much)
SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the
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Air Date: December 14, 2019
Listen 06:23
Thinking about buying a telescope as a gift this holiday season? Consider these three easy guidelines:
1) Start simple; a telescop
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Air Date: December 9, 2019
Listen 08:28
There are lots of hints regarding the possibility of the existence of liquid water around the solar, system, the galaxy, and the universe
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Air Date: December 2, 2019
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Our Milky Way’s SgrA Black Hole in the center of our galaxy has ejected a star from the galaxy at a brisk 3.7 million miles per hou
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Air Date: November 23, 2019
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