Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage
It's cosmology in a cup! - Cosmic Coffee Time is bite sized podcasts making sense of space, astronomy, life, and the universe, best enjoyed with a coffee. A down to earth look at what's up there, and it's just for you spacefans. Grab a coffee and see where in the universe we go this time. Follow on Twitter @CosmicCoffTime
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#22 The Sun. How does it it produce so much energy? And what does the future hold?
Let's take a closer look at the Sun - but not literally. How does it it produce so much energy and why can it do this for billions and billions of years? It's the source of practically …
#21 Let's take a look at the Moon part 5 - Artemis and the future of human Moon exploration
We've had a look at the history of human lunar exploration, but this time we're going to look to the future. We're going back to the moon with project Artemis. Apollo was great, but tha…
#20 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 4
We love the moon. Sometimes we just step outside and it's there waiting for us. There's so much to explore with the moon, we're taking a few episodes to get right into it. Here's part 4…
#19 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 3
There's so much to explore with the moon. It's our little companion in space, like our next door neighbour. We're going to take a few episodes to get right into it. Here's part 3.
Let's …
#18 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 2
There's so much to explore with the moon. It's our little companion in space, like our next door neighbour. We're going to take a few episodes to get right into it. Here's part 2.
Why do…
#17 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 1
There's so much to explore with the moon. It's our little companion in space, like our next door neighbour. We're going to take a few episodes to get right into it. Here's part 1.
Get co…
#16 The incredible tale of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. A special first birthday quadruple episode.
It's Cosmic Coffee Time's first birthday, and what better way to celebrate than with a quadruple episode exploring the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. Explore the vastly different lands…
#15 So are we really alone in the Universe? Where is everyone? And what are we doing to find extraterrestrial life?
Ever since we started using radio to communicate on Earth, we've wondered if we could use it to communicate with other civilizations in different parts of the galaxy. But it seems the h…
#14 So an asteroid caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs? Let's find the crater!
So an asteroid fell from space and caused a mass extinction of the dinosaurs. But where is the crater? We know impacts have left craters on the moon, earth, and other planets, But have …
#13 Comets? I know Halley's, but what other cool comet stuff should I know?
Halley's Comet comes around once every 76 years. You might have missed its last visit in 1986, but it'll be back in around 40 years...
What is a comet? Why do a lot of people really only…
#12 Proving Einstein's relativity in outback Australia. A cracking tale of spacebending gravity
So Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted black holes, or more specifically, that gravity could warp spacetime. But how could we prove it? Here's a ripping yarn about some as…
#11 So there are planets orbiting the stars? Tell me more about exoplanets!
We love our Earth, (and we love our coffee), we love all the planets in our solar system. But what if I told you that some of the stars you see at night, have their own planets? They're…
#10 How cool is Saturn. I mean really.
Sometimes your favourite coffee cup leaves a ring on the table, or on that important document! But rings that you're always happy to see are the ones around Saturn. Saturn with its syst…
#9 Hey tell me about the International Space Station
So many questions about the International Space Station. What do the astronauts do in their free time? Why did they do that twin study? But coolest of all, how do I see the Internationa…
#8 So Earth's magnetic field will make my compass needle point south one day?
Got five minutes for a coffee? Grab your favourite cup, and hit play to take a closer look at Earth's magnetic field, it's stranger than you think! Let's see what makes it work, and exp…
#7 A black hole sounds pretty weird
Black coffee and black holes, get caffeinated for this one. Black holes are some of the weirdest things in the universe, so let's understand them a bit better this coffee break.
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#5 NASA Deep Space Communication Network
Coffee break time again. So we see all these amazing pictures from rovers on Mars, and flybys of distant planets, but how do those pictures get back to Earth? Who's listening? and what …
#4 You've got to love an eclipse of the sun
You've got your coffee, we've got some pretty cool facts about eclipses. If you've ever wondered about how a solar eclipse happens, or maybe why they're so rare, then wonder no more! An…
#6 Why isn't Pluto a planet any more?
Pluto is famous these days for not being a planet. What happened? You've got a coffee, we've got some of the answers.
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#3 What's with leap years anyway?
Coffee smells nice today, and why do we need a leap year? When did we start doing the leap day and what would happen if we didn't bother with 29 February?
What was unique about the 2000 …