#51 - September 2016

#51 - September 2016

The Discussion: Jeni's astronomy research yields its first results in the hunt for exoplanet phase variation and we revisit our Star Wars podcast extras with a listener's book review.

The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:

  • An 'Earthlike planet detected by ESO around our nearest stellar neighbour
  • The upcoming launch of OSIRIS Rex to sample an asteroid
  • That bump in the data at CERN turns out to be a false hope
  • That alien megastructure story just won't foxtrot oscar
  • The Cassini spacecraft spots methane filled canyons on Saturn's moon Titan
  • A meteorite lands in Yorkshire garden. Real or fake?

Woobusters: Continuing our quest to debunk the myths and conspiracy theories that persist in every dark corner of the news and the internet. This month's topic, picked at random from Paul's festering Hat of Woo: Area 51 – the remote and secret installation in the Nevada desert where sanity gets dissected and reason is left to die.

Q&A: Listeners' questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we get a question that probes certainty in science and how high certainty discoveries can still turn out to be wrong:

Why when the Bicep two team found the evidence for primordial gravitational waves did they claim it was a five sigma result, and later wasn't it shown the result was not accurate? I thought a five sigma had a 1 in 350million chance of being wrong! There has to be something I don't understand about the sigma scale or the Bicep results? Rodney Cuthbertson.

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Yeeting your office into a flamepit

Yeeting your office into a flamepit

In this chatty news episode we chat about more Artemis mission shenanigans and how the Russians have wrecked their only human rated launch pad. Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

14 Joulu 202552min

Icy Telescopes and Martian Lightning

Icy Telescopes and Martian Lightning

This episode it is a new bananza with discussion of the Thirty Metre Telescope, shenanigans on Mars, asymmetrical supernovae and more trouble in the world of cosmology. There is a Xmas Telescope buyin...

1 Joulu 20251h 3min

What an Artimess!

What an Artimess!

In our second episode of the month we chat about the weird mess that is now the Artemis Programme, whether there is even a new space race and what strange shenanigans rogue planets are up to! Produced...

15 Marras 202540min

Comet I3 ATLAS and Cerne Abbas Star Party

Comet I3 ATLAS and Cerne Abbas Star Party

Time for a Comet 3I ATLAS deep dive, a chat about Paul's recent visit to the Cerne Abbas Starparty and our new extended skyguide.   Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

31 Loka 20251h 7min

Camping, Craters and Comets

Camping, Craters and Comets

This month we are at Astrocamp, our biannual dark sky retreat. We have a Q and A session with the campers and we talk a newly confirmed impact crater in the UK, Artemis II, ozone layer, and an upcomin...

1 Loka 20251h 21min

Paul in Festival Land

Paul in Festival Land

A bumper end of summer episode with Paul out in the world of science outreach and communication in a Summer music festival. There's also discussion of the new Astronomer Royal, China's moon programme,...

2 Syys 20251h 35min

AI, Hypersonics and Betelbuddy

AI, Hypersonics and Betelbuddy

This month we talk about Jen at the BBC, AI in science communication, a supernova in NGC7331, whether Betelgeuse has a companion, Exoplanet shenanigans, European hypersonic space planes, and of course...

1 Elo 20251h 26min

Vera Rubin, Welsh Satellites and LIGO disaster

Vera Rubin, Welsh Satellites and LIGO disaster

A bumper episode or is that a Jumper episode if Jeni has her way. Paul has new scope and Jeni has been seeing the Sun. We have terrible news from LIGO, the end of Milkomeda, Light pollution paradox, V...

1 Heinä 20251h 32min

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