{"podcast":{"title":"Travelers In The Night","slug":"travelers-in-the-night-1048610","podcast_index_feed_id":1048610,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1335265/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://travelersinthenight.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/80c14f73da04cdff5cfaef4dcc1c596f.jpg","author":"Albert D. Grauer","episode_count":1000,"summary":"A real \"Science Snack\" for anyone who is interested in the extraterrestrial. Dr. Al Grauer is a member of the Catalina Sky Survey which has led the world in near Earth asteroid discoveries for 17 of the past 19 years. The music is \"Eternity\" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact Aliens","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T06:18:51.297654+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610"},"episode":{"title":"889-Lick Observatory","slug":"889-lick-observatory","published_at":"2026-03-06T16:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/889-lick-observatory","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/889-lick-observatory--70070594","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70070594/889_lick_observatory.mp3","summary":"In 1892 the world’s largest telescope, the Lick Observatory’s 36 inch refracting telescope made the news when E.E. Barnard discovered, Amalthea, the 5th moon of Jupiter. In 2025 this historic telescope made the news again when on Christmas morning winds of 114 mph blew off a 3 ton piece of the shutter on its dome.The adaptive optics research pioneered at Lick Observatory helped in the creation of the twin giant 10 meter telescopes that sit atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.","meta_description":"In 1892 the world’s largest telescope, the Lick Observatory’s 36 inch refracting telescope made the news when E.E. Barnard discovered, Amalthea, the 5th m…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/episodes/889-lick-observatory/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/889-lick-observatory.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}