AWESOME ASTRONOMY2 Mai 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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Episoder(370)

Jodrell Bank Murder Club

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Eclipse Girl Summer

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1 Jul 1h

The Secret History of a Space Mission

The idea that sparked a billion-dollar space telescope was recorded in the most unlikely of places: a scrap of paper fished out a pocket while gondolas sailed by in Venice. In this talk, award-winning...

19 Jun 1h 10min

Objects in the Golden Mirror may be Closer

This month a bit of a JWST fest with news about the cosmic Web (Webb?! ) and those little red dots the seem to be breaking cosmology. There is also our normal skyguide and moon guide. Produced by Paul...

1 Jun 51min

Psyche, Poet and Astronomy Exams

It's the chatty astrowaffle episode! Psyche rushing past Mars, Power instrument at VLT, GCSE Astronomy exams and listener emails. Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

19 Mai 1h 6min

AstroCamp Live Show

A show recorded with the happy campers of Cwmdu. We talk smart scopes, late nights, planetary formation, news on Comet 3I and more on the Hubble tension. Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

1 Mai 58min