AWESOME ASTRONOMY

The Discussion:

• Jen as a space expert on BBC1’s Breakfast show
• AweAst on YouTube is coming! Head over and help us out by subscribing here.
• An email on the less than stellar working conditions at Blu…

The Discussion:

• A bonanza of radio interviews
• Jeni’s guide to the darkest and best places to stargaze in the UK
• A trip to the satellite company Space Forge.
• Emails about radio interviews and the fir…

The Discussion:

• Tales from a dark sky weekend
• Jen appearing on the Cosmic Companion and at the Open University Space Society
• Emails on space tourism and from a US state penitentiary

The News:

• NAS…

The Discussion:

• Murder on a submarine
• Jeni’s exoplanet talk for the Open University Space Society - available here on YouTube
• An email from Eastern Europe prompting a discussion on future energy har…

The Discussion:

• Our practical astronomy gathering is back – join us in Wales on 2-5th October
• Jen is contributing to Andy Oppenheimer’s book Stars of Orion
• Submit your support for Lego to create a …

The Discussion:

• Jeni Nearly joined a cult
• Farewell to Carolyn Shoemaker
• The Room of Doom at Redditch Astronomical Society
• The new updated Sky Guide app (that Jen works on)
• Listeners’ emails on how a…

This podcast extra is all about our favourite topic of them all, exoplanets. Thanks to our good friends Ian and Billy, we'll be taking a look at the very exciting upcoming low-Earth orbit space missi…

The Discussion:

• Presenting on the BBC
• The importance of dust to astronomy

The News:

• A round up of current Mars exploration from Perseverance, Ingenuity, Hope & Zhurong.
• The mystery of the disapp…

The Discussion:

• Star Wars marathon
• Observing the ISS & the Nauka Module
• NAM 2021
• Amateur recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism
• Spectrum analysing the new audio anomaly

The News: Rounding up the…

The Discussion:

• Hubble’s still in trouble
• Jeni’s presenting on the BBC’s Weatherman Walking
• Ideas for a new segment to replace the moons of the solar system

The News:

• Ingenuity helicopter is exc…

The Discussion:

• Can you help out the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory?
• Combining sports & astronomy
• The hive mind responds to the new audio anomaly

The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in July, …

To illustrate the epic saga of the Great Dimming of Betelgeuse, in this podcast extra, we revisit all our previous discussions of the red supergiant – collated just for you in one handy dandy pl…

The Discussion:

• A new audio anomaly to get your investigative teeth into
• Jeni moving from TV interviewee to presenter on the BBC
• A look back at this month’s solar eclipse
• Listeners’ emails about our…

The Discussion:

• Buying and selling astronomy kit
• A possible resolution to the Wiltshire Audio Anomaly

The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have:

• Heavy metal vapours detected …

The Discussion:

• Farewell to Michael Collins
• Jeni back on the radio, other podcasts and TV - cc/crhxtz
• Listeners’ emails

The News:

• Blue Origin prepares to take space tourists
• The launch of China’…

The Discussion:

• Binocular observing
• Do you want Ralph’s 115 triplet refractor & goto mount?
• The Wiltshire Audio Anomaly
• Listeners emails on historical images and refractor rivalry

The News: Roundin…

The Discussion:

• The ‘Wiltshire Audio Anomaly’
• 20% off the book Vera Rubin – A Life for US listeners using url: hup.harvard.edu/exhibits/HX7578
• @StargazerRob’s alternative astrophotographer of the ye…

The Discussion:

• Jen finally becomes Dr Jen – bow down pitiful Earthlings!
• Binocular astronomy
• Get the book Vera Rubin - A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton with 25% off by emailing cs-books@wiley.…

The Discussion:

• Vaccination cometh to Awesome Astronomy
• The UK’s unorthodox meteor sample return mission
• A listener’s email follow up to last month’s Q&A

The News: Rounding up the space exploration…