Pythagorean Astronomy
>Astronomy news and interviews with scientists involved in the discoveries.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 118
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2024
Northern Lights, New Camera, Cosmological Action
Edward and Chris discuss the recent Northern Lights show seen across the UK, the discovery of new free-floating planets, massive black holes and the completion of the largest camera ever built.
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Dust to dust
Edward Gomez and Chris North discuss names going to Jupiter on the Europa Clipper mission, which is currently being assembled. Then there is a new cannibal star, suspected of eating its own planets, …
XRISM and Matter's Final Screams
This month Edward and Chris talk the recent lunar missions - Astrobotic's Peregrine and Japan's SLIM. There's also the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on what turned out post-recording to be it's final …
2023 Review and 2024 look-ahead
Chris North and Edward Gomez review some stories from 2023, with asteroid missions, lunar rovers and aurora sightings. Plus a look forward to 2024, including launches of missions to asteroids and Jup…
The "What the Heck" Particle
Chris and Edward discuss the announcement of the detection of a highly energetic cosmic ray, dubbed "Amerterasu" or the "What the Heck" particle. Elsewhere, there is a new study of star formation in …
Planet Bashing and Dipsticks of the Universe
Recorded in late October, Chris and Edward discuss recent proposals for an all-British mission to space, the launch of Psyche to...erm...Psyche, and Edward's involvement with the detection of somethi…
Life, but not as we know it?
Chris and Edward discuss some recent stories, such as tantalising possible (emphasis on the possible) detections by JWST of interesting molecules on an exoplanet which coul (emphasis on the could) in…
National Astronomy Meeting - part 2
Dr Ian Harrisonreports from the National Astronomy meeting, which we held in Cardiff back in July. You can hear a couple of interviews we conducted on the previous episode, but in this episode we hav…
NAM 2023
July marked the UK's annual National Astronomy Meeting, which this year took place in Cardiff. Chris North, Edward Gomez and Ian Harrison discuss a few recent stories from this month and at the confe…
Tidal Transients
In 2020 astronomers spotted an object slowly getting brighter, but it wasn't until 2021 tha they quite understood how unusual it was. In 2021, they studied it in more detail, and found that it was so…
From exploding rockets to burping galaxies
A news roundup of the last couple of months with Chris North and Edward Gomez. With a few failures - the SpaceX Starship launch, iSpace's moon landing and Virgin Galactic's bankruptcy, it might seem …
Black Holes: Saviours of the Universe?
In terms of what might be called “pure science”, there’s one topic that tends to get people excited, and that's black holes. A few weeks ago, in February 2023, a pair of papers came out that linked t…
Staring at the Dawn of Time - part 2
In the last month there was a show of the Northern Lights - or aurora - visible from the UK. If you didn't get to see it (spoiler: neither did we!), then you might get a chance in the future if there…
Staring at the Dawn of Time - part 1
Happy Birthday JWST
The Future of Space Exploration
On board with DART
Gravitational Field Trip - part 2
Gravitational Field Trip - part 1