Small Town Universe. This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Al-Ahmad of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar

system and beyond. In the mountains of West Virginia, USA, sits a town where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned.

That's also that the world's most sensitive radio telescope can listen undisturbed for signals from the cosmos.

This week we're bringing you a special conversation recorded live at the Planetary Society's screening of Small Town Universe,

a documentary that follows the people whose lives are woven into that remarkable place.

Matt Kaplan, our Senior Communications Advisor here at the Planetary Society, and the original creator of Planetary Radio,

sat down with director Katie Delam Maggiore and physicist Ellie White.

They talked about the making of the film, the beauty of Green Bank Observatory, and the

fight to keep its funding secure. But before that, we've got a preview of the total solar eclipse

coming to European skies next month with Kate Howells, our public education specialist.

And Bruce Betts, our chief scientist, joins me for What's Up, where we look at Hayabusa-2's

recent flyby of asteroid Torifune.

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you'll never miss an episode filled with new and awe-inspiring ways to know the cosmos

and our place within it. We begin with a preview of something that you really don't want to miss.

On August 12, 26, just a little over a month after this episode airs, a total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of the northern hemisphere.

And for the first time since 1999, it's going to be visible from Western Europe.

The path of totality runs through Iceland, Greenland, and Spain, with up to two minutes and 18 seconds of darkness

in the middle of the day. You guys know how I feel about total solar eclipses. They're one of the most

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