IRrelevant Astronomy
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It's the series Aint-It-Cool-News calls ''the most (intentionally) hilarious series of educational films you'll find...the pieces carry a Muppets-esque charm.'' Alan Dyer at Discovery.com says it's ''a lot of fun, and breaks the mold for NASA videos.'' Recently a top-10 finalist for ''Best Science/Technology Podcast'' at the 2008 Podcast Awards, IRrelevant Astronomy is packed with CG animation and snarky humor, all wrapped around the latest astronomy news and science from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It's infrared-relevant! Also available in HD.
- Website
- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/resource_list/4-IRrelevant-Astronomy
- Description
- It's the series Aint-It-Cool-News calls ''the most (intentionally) hilarious series of educational films you'll find...the pieces carry a Muppets-esque charm.'' Alan Dyer at Discovery.com says it's ''a lot of fun, and breaks the mold for NASA videos.'' Recently a top-10 finalist for ''Best Science/Technology Podcast'' at the 2008 Podcast Awards, IRrelevant Astronomy is packed with CG animation and snarky humor, all wrapped around the latest astronomy news and science from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It's infrared-relevant! Also available in HD.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-02-02 15:53
- last episode published
- 2015-12-16 00:00
- publication frequency
- 115.68 days
- Contributors
- NASA's Spitzer Science Center and Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
- Author
- NASA / SSC-IPAC
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 26
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2015-12-16 | Stampy helps a student learn about the engineering behind NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Featuring Richard Horvitz, Robert Picardo, and Danny Pudi. |
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| 2014-02-12 | When a science-mad A.I. system is installed at NASA, two hapless computer technicians learn the process behind nuclear fusion in the Sun, and how it differs from fission. |
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| 2013-07-16 | Deep inside an astronomer's head, a parasite (voiced by Alan Tudyk) taps into his brain to learn about...science! Specifically, about why astronauts appear weightless in space. Wil Wheaton co-stars. |
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| 2013-02-26 |
Robot Astronomy Talk Show In Progress: The Mass of Asteroids Cameron Diaz teaches Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) how astronomers can measure the mass of asteroids from tremendous distances. |
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| 2011-03-18 | Did you know 13.7 billion year old radiation from the Big Bang can be seen on any analogue TV set? In this mini-musical, a fictional couple (Brigitte Dale, Marc Helou) discuss the science behind this. Original song written& performed by Danny Tiege... |
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| 2011-02-16 | Veronica Belmont co-hosts a space-themed talk show with Astronomy Anemone, a carnivorous man-eating sea polyp. WARNING: contains scenes of cartoon violence and scientific jargon. |
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| 2010-11-28 | Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) meets The Physician (Wil Wheaton), an intergalactic buttinsky in a small blue box spaceship. Together, they work to escape"The Destroyer of Worlds," a binary star system that is destroying its inner planets. With Brigitte Dale. |
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| 2010-08-10 | Actor Sean Astin is hired by a bullying educational film Director and her Flunky sidekick to explain about the life and death of stars. But when things go wrong on the set, actor Sandeep Parikh is hired to replace Sean... only to have things take a biz... |
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| 2010-05-25 | Amy Okuda flies to Saturn to observe a new giant ring around the planet: the largest ring ever discovered in our Solar System, but one that was only recently revealed through infrared observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2009. While there... |
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| 2010-03-09 | A singing NASA supervisor uses song to explain about NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and how infrared astronomy differs from visible-light telescopes like Hubble. |
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