Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 222
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Jupiter's Juno Mission
Jupiter's Juno mission, the magical world of Pluto and spacewalking feature in this special fifth anniversary edition of the podcast. ESA's head of the neutral buoyancy facility, Herve Stevenin, expl…
00:40:59 |
Sat 09 Jul 2016
Will we ever return to the moon?
It's nearly been 5 decades since Neil Armstrong took one small step for mankind... But will we return again? As things heat up, Graihagh Jackson brings together the cosmically curious to unpick our t…
00:31:07 |
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Hot from Spacefest
Last man on the Moon, Captain Gene Cernan, and Apollo 9 lunar module pilot Rusty Schweickart join Space Boffin Richard at Spacefest in Tucson, Arizona. Apollo 17 commander Cernan expresses his frustr…
00:34:55 |
Thu 09 Jun 2016
Reaching for the Stars
This month, Graihagh Jackson is getting all starry eyed over our Sun. Where did it come from? Where is it going? And what it's taught us about the universe? Plus, the mission that's taking us the clo…
00:38:15 |
Tue 24 May 2016
Have you been mis-sold time?
This month the Space Boffins get to grips with relativity, watch as British astronaut Tim Peake manoeuvres a Mars rover in a cave, and go inside a section of NASA's new giant rocket. With their guest…
00:40:20 |
Mon 09 May 2016
Eyes on the Sky for Mercury
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun and this rare event enabled astronomers of the 17th century to work out how vast the universe was. But this transit isn't jus…
00:25:45 |
Sun 24 Apr 2016
Riding on a Space Sofa
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham bring news of space sofas, super flat floors and Martian sunsets. They are joined at The Open University by ExoMars mission principal investigator Dr M…
00:38:21 |
Sat 09 Apr 2016
Adventures in Satspotting
What happens when we turn our astronomical instruments back to planet Earth? With the launch of over 12 satellites, Europe's version of GPS, Galileo, will be operational very soon but why are space …
00:26:45 |
Fri 25 Mar 2016
Buzz Aldrin and his master plan for Mars
Buzz Aldrin is the legendary Apollo 11 and Gemini 12 astronaut who made history in 1969 when he became one of the first men to walk on the lunar surface. Today, he has his sights firmly on the future…
00:24:07 |
Thu 10 Mar 2016
The Next Revolution in Astronomy: Gravitational Waves
February 2016 marks one of the biggest discoveries in cosmology and astronomy: the LIGO team annouced that they'd detected gravitational waves, 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted them. Scienti…
00:34:25 |
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Russian Lunar Rovers and Floating Number Twos
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham talk Mars rovers, Russian lunar rovers and floating number twos during this month's podcast. Europe's ExoMars mission scientist Nicholas Thomas reveals…
00:42:55 |
Wed 10 Feb 2016
Cosmic Quandries: The Origins of Time
One of the big questions in cosmology is what happened at the beginning of the universe? Astrophycisists are edging closer to answering this question - we can now look back to a fraction of a second …
00:30:52 |
Mon 25 Jan 2016
Surgery in Space
The Space Boffins talk surgery in space with a real life Dr McCoy, NASA astronaut and physician Michael Barratt, and report from a school in St Albans during Tim Peake's first ham radio contact with …
00:39:22 |
Sun 10 Jan 2016
Christmas in Space
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham prepare for Tim Peake's launch to the International Space Station by speaking to Britain's first astronaut - Helen Sharman. ESA's Dr Volker Damann, Hea…
00:38:43 |
Thu 10 Dec 2015
Gravity and Guitars with Tim Peake
Richard sits down with British European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, to discuss gravity, guitars, 1980s computers and future missions to the Moon and Mars. Recorded on location at the National …
00:36:58 |
Tue 10 Nov 2015
The First Woman in Space
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson's star (and space) studded podcast includes the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, and astronaut Tim Peake. Britain's first European…
00:40:00 |
Fri 09 Oct 2015
Done and Dusted: What's Next for Rosetta?
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are joined by the Rosetta's project scientist, Dr Matt Taylor, to hear the latest on ESA's comet chasing mission now that perihelion is done and dusted…
00:35:24 |
Wed 09 Sep 2015
Hello, this is the International Space Station
In a first for the Space Boffins podcast - an interview with astronauts in space! NASA's Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are on a year long mission on board the International Space Statio…
00:34:03 |
Tue 11 Aug 2015
Rocketing into Space
The Space Boffins celebrate their 4th year producing monthly podcasts in - aptly - a British rocket lab. Richard Hollingham joins engineer Adam Baker at the University of Kingston to discuss recent r…
00:41:02 |
Sun 12 Jul 2015
How to Fly a Space Shuttle
In a Space Boffins special - Sue Nelson meets the first female Space Shuttle Commander, Eileen Collins. The retired astronaut - one of NASA's most experienced - reveals the challenges of flying the S…
00:21:54 |
Tue 09 Jun 2015
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