April 2nd Radio Show online

The April 2nd edition of this radio show/podcast is now online and available here. On this week, I covered:

• Calendar of upcoming events in the greater New York City / Poughkeepsie area (link)
• Interview with Dr. Julie McEnery of Goddard Space Flight Center on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), NASA's next-generation gamma-ray observatory
• News: University of Toronto plans to sell David Dunlap Observatory to fund a new one, some faculty protest; European Science Foundation studying plans to build a laboratory to study stellar evolution (link); a new spacecraft designed for space tourism might be ready for testing soon, hope of first take-off in 2010 (link); the guest quarters at the Very Large Telescope - four large optical telescopes operated by ESO located in Cerro Paranal, Chile - to be featured as the villian's hideout in the next James Bond movie, "Quantum of Solace"; debate continues over International Astronomical Union's definition of a planet; three new sunspots with the magnetic field orientation of the OLD sunspot cycle detected.
• Cosmic Rays: Re-analysis of the High-Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray telescope confirms the GZK cutoff observed in the detected rate of the highest energy cosmic rays detected by Pierre Auger (link); Integral detected hard X-ray emission from nearby massive star binary Eta Carinae, believed to be produced by very high energy electrons accelerated where the stellar winds powered by these two massive stars collide.

Thank you very much for listening, and hope you enjoyed it. As always please email or leave below any questions, comments, or concerns you might have.