Audio and Visual Media
These resources provide a mix of podcasts, television series, and interactive media. These materials help to bring the concepts of astronomy and astrophysics to life!
Available on the AstronomyCast website, or on major Podcast streamers (Spotify, Apple, YouTube) this podcast is hosted by an astronomer (Dr. Pamela Gay) and a long-time expert in astronomy news (Fraser Cain), and episodes are roughly 30 minutes long on a variety of astronomy, astrophysics and space-related topics as well as space-related news of interest. The podcast has over 700 episodes to explore, and nearly any space-related topic you can imagine has been covered! The hosts also provide seasonal viewing guides to help you keep track of what you can see in the night sky. The downside is the podcast website is fairly bare-bones and doesn’t organize episodes by guides or topics and simply lists episodes in numeric order with a brief description. There is a search feature to help search by a topic of interest.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) 
As noted elsewhere in this guide, when Carl Sagan published the first edition of Cosmos it was really seen as a companion to the television program of the same name which Sagan hosted. The show was quite popular, and in 2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson helmed an updated version of the show. All 13 episodes of the 2014 series can be viewed on Tubi with a free account. The show blends deGrasse Tyson’s recognizable intellect, passion and wit along with animations, astrophotography and computer renderings to introduce a new generation of viewers to the wonder of the universe. Episodes run roughly 44 minutes and are intended to be as entertaining as they are instructive. For those who wish to see the original series hosted by Sagan, California public broadcasting station KCET has made all episodes of the 1980 series available to view at this link on the Internet Archive.
The Known Universe in 360 (American Museum of Natural History)
If you are able to travel to New York City, I enthusiastically recommend a trip to the Hayden Planetarium at American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), a world-class institution with an engaging and powerful show. A stunning resource from the Hayden Planetarium is the Digital Universe Atlas, which you can experience on a small scale via the above YouTube video. The complete digital atlas is hosted on AMNH’s open-source platform called OpenSpace and requires a software download. While you may not want to dive all the way in to downloading OpenSpace (the website notes you’ll need a powerful computer and graphics card to utilize the program), the YouTube video provides a riveting exploration of space starting from the Himalayan Mountain range and traveling outward from Earth’s atmosphere. You can use your mouse to shift perspective during the video, providing a 360-view of the digitized 3-D map. AMNH provides OpenSpace access to museums and planetariums around the world, making their research widely accessible.
The show NOVA has been televised via the Public Broadcast System (PBS) for over 50 years, and has provided generations of viewers with a wealth of scientific programming. While NOVA is not limited to astronomy/astrophysics, there are many episodes focused on space and the universe. The NOVA website allows you to browse by topic area (try the Space and Flight topic), and episodes are archived and available to view online. If there are particular aspects of space that you’re curious about, run a search on the NOVA website and there’s likely an episode covering that topic! NOVA continues to air new episodes and the airing schedule is available on their homepage so be on the lookout for new episodes that strike your interest.
StarDate is a retro-feeling resource that is almost a last-of-its-kind in today’s world. It’s a daily 2-minute radio feature run by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory that can be heard on public radio stations across the country, including WAMC in the northeast region. The StarDate website provides access to episodes on a one-day delay (subscribers can listen to the daily feature on the day it airs). Each day the program focuses on a different astronomy topic and is a great way to get an easy introduction to the world of astronomy in bite-sized pieces. Unfortunately you cannot perform a search in the website, so you can’t find episodes by topic. The website has an array of other helpful tools and topics including a moon phase calculator, sunrise and sunset calculators, an “Astro glossary” and lesson plans for teachers to bring astronomy topics into the classroom.
StarTalk Radio: Cosmic Queries- Native Skywatchers with Dr. Annette Lee (Season 12, Ep. 48) 
Along with books and shows, Neil deGrasse Tyson also hosts StarTalk Radio, a popular, long-running podcast. The podcast as a whole is worth exploring, though it does often veer away from astronomy and astrophysics to cover other scientific areas and pop culture. The StarTalk website allows you to search for various topics, including stargazing. The linked episode features a discussion with Dr. Annette Lee, who offers a look into astronomic topics from an indigenous person's point of view. The constellations discussed in books like those provided in this guide typically provide a Western point of view, and this discussion illuminates how constellations are conceptualized by indigenous cultures. Charting the stars is deeply connected to the roots of the earliest civilizations, an idea that can sometimes get lost in all the jargon, new technology and forward-thinking astrophysics theories. This conversation provides a necessary counter-balance.