#47 - May 2016
AWESOME ASTRONOMY2 Touko 2016

#47 - May 2016

In this month's show:

The Discussion

Revision season as Jeni finishes her masters in astrophysics and preparations for AstroCamp in the Welsh Brecon Beacons.

The News

  • SpaceX make Paul look a right fool
  • Stephen Hawking backs an attempt to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri
  • More insight in to gravitational waves
  • A new galaxy is discovered orbiting the Milky Way
  • Narrowing down the whereabouts of Planet Nine

Paul's Big Hat of Woo

This month we look at planetary alignments and all those crazy notions that tsunamis or weightlessness might occur if the planets are in certain alignments, or something.

Q&A

Our question this month comes from Clemens Unger in Melbourne, Australia who helpfully suggested:

If you're looking for a topic to chat about in the show, how about the recent well publicised case of image theft in the Astro imaging community? A chap used a Damien Peach image and presented it as his own. But, as it's a small world, Damien saw it by chance. There seems to be so much pressure on these days to show better and better images and that seems to overtake the fun of astronomy a bit for some and peer pressure is getting to some.

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Lancing Galaxies and Angry Emails

Lancing Galaxies and Angry Emails

This month we have Galactic sized lancing battles, Jupiter twice its size, Wales entering the space race and we have emails! Oh we have emails!

4 Kesä 20251h 11min

Lancing Galaxies and Angry Emails

Lancing Galaxies and Angry Emails

This month we have Galactic sized lancing battles, Jupiter twice its size, Wales entering the space race and we have emails! Oh we have emails!

4 Kesä 20251h 11min

Lancing Galaxies and Angry Emails

Lancing Galaxies and Angry Emails

This month we have Galactic sized lancing battles, Jupiter twice its size, Wales entering the space race and we have emails! Oh we have emails!

1 Kesä 20251h 11min

AstroCamp Spring 2025!

AstroCamp Spring 2025!

We come at you with all the fun of AstroCamp in Welsh Wales. Chat, debate and birdsong! Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

7 Touko 20251h 22min

Has NASA been Trumped?

Has NASA been Trumped?

We try to keep it upbeat this month with tales of blackholes, definitions of moons, and solar system science but unfortunately the fate of NASA and American science currently hangs in the balance... P...

1 Huhti 20251h 10min

Paranal Problems: Light Pollution at the VLT

Paranal Problems: Light Pollution at the VLT

It looks as though the European Southern Observatory is caught in an American light pollution pincer...starlink above and now the threat of an American industrial complex as a neighbour. Is this the e...

2 Maalis 20251h 6min

Asteroid Doom and Gaia Gloom

Asteroid Doom and Gaia Gloom

The world veers towards madness, asteroids threaten destruction and Gaia is no more. But the planets are putting on a show and Pluto is 95, so that's alright... Produced by Ralph, Paul, Jen, John, Dam...

11 Helmi 202558min

Venus. Twined with Milton Keynes

Venus. Twined with Milton Keynes

Happy New Year! This month we talk about an new climate history for Venus, a new origin story for Mars' moons and we chat about the new potential head of NASA... Produced by Ralph, Paul, Jen, John, ...

4 Tammi 202539min

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