Podcasts

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New Horizons and event horizons

The New Horizons probe has given us incredible and unprecedented views of Pluto
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Podcast: New Horizons and event horizons

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Radio Astronomy Podcast Lunar eclipses, 2019 space missions and green stars

RADIO ASTRONOMY_PODCAST_2018

2018 review and imaging Mars for science

The Apollo 7 crew R. Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Eisele and Walter M.

Ice on the Moon and Apollo 7

Artist's impression of the Dawn spacecraft arriving at Ceres: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dawn, Holst and water on Mars

The annual bluedot festival is three days of music and science at Jodrell Bank Observatory in rural Cheshire.
Credit: Jody Hartley

Podcast: Bluedot Festival 2018 special

In the Orion Nebula, dust grains might have life-like properties. Image Credit: NASA

Podcast: Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Image credit: iStock

Radio Astronomy Christmas Special: Tales from 2017

Radio Astronomy, the monthly podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Radio Astronomy Podcast International Astronomy Show 2017 Special

This composite image of the moon using Clementine data from 1994 is the view we are most likely to see when the moon is full. Image Credit: NASA

Radio Astronomy Podcast Ice on the Moon & Apollo 7

Podcast: Dawn, Holst’s Planets and water on Mars

The Geminids is one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Radio Astronomy Podcast Meteor showers and space rocks

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Episode 4: Farewell Rosetta

This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of our Galaxy with the Galactic Plane running horizontally through the image — almost as if we were looking at the Milky Way from the outside. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went through the star fields, with bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter. For copyright reasons, we cannot provide here the full 800-million-pixel original image, which can be requested from Serge Brunier. The high resolution image provided here contains 18 million pixels.

Podcast: The mission to map the Milky Way