StarDate History and Background
StarDate radio — the longest-running science feature in the country —
celebrated its 25th anniversary as a national program in 2003. StarDate began
as a telephone message service and soon went on the air in Austin as a daily
radio program, "Have You Seen the Stars Tonight?" With a new name and a grant
from the National Science Foundation, the series began national distribution
in 1978.
Each month, StarDate offers a balance of astronomy and space-science topics. About half of each month's programs are related to skywatching: eclipses, meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, stars and constellations, and so on.
Other topics are related to important anniversaries (the birthdays of important astronomers or anniversaries of key scientific discoveries or space-exploration accomplishments); recent discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics, and physics;
Earth's place in the cosmos; and a variety of topics that may be related only peripherally to the core subject of astronomy, but that help place astronomy in a broader historical, scientific, and cultural perspective.
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