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
It's (Almost) Never Aliens
This is a special episode - released a couple of weeks earlier than normal – that’s because we’ve got a very special story to talk about this time. A team of astronomers has detected hints that indic…
00:23:21 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Black holes - too big and too small
If there’s anything that pricks up the ears in astronomy, it’s black holes. And this month we have not one, but two black hole stories. And, depending on how you count them, four black holes, though …
00:42:47 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
Solar Orbiter: Not Suitable for Vegetarians
In astronomy, the month of July has been the month of two things: comets, and Mars. Comet Neowise, or to give it it’s full title C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, has graced the skies of the northern hemispheres, b…
00:33:12 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Mass Gaps and Radio Bursts
Science news stories normally revolve around something new that's been learned, or some question that’s been answered. But sometimes, and these are often the most interesting times, there’s an observ…
00:41:16 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
SmallSpark
Amid the turmoil of not only coronavirus, but also anti-racism protests across the US and now internationally, it's been a notable month for spaceflight. At the end of May, SpaceX launched their firs…
00:26:56 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Hubble at 30
The Hubble Space Telescope is 30 years old - something that even its most enthusiastic supporters couldn't have dreamt of when it launched in 1990. With the help of a host of astronomers and space sc…
00:50:05 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Isolation Space
In these unprecendented times, it's hard to argue that much of space science and astronomy is key infrastructure, or its staff key workers. And while that's true, like many organisations work cannot …
00:28:42 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Out with the old, in with the new
Betelgeuse is still misbehaving, though we're starting to get more information in from observations by some of the largest telescope. Astronomers are narrowing in on the possible explanations.
While…
00:35:47 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Dimming stars, Galactic waves and misbehaving gas clouds
The astronomy world has been a-buzz with news of Betelgeuse, the bright red star in Orion, which appears to be dimming. Chris North, Edward Gomez and Claudia Antolini discuss how unusual this is, and…
00:25:49 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
What the future holds
The final episode of 2019 includes a look back at a few things that have happened this year, and a look forward to the future.
Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss the developments in exoplanet disc…
00:27:57 |
Sun 29 Dec 2019
Stellar Explosions and Interstellar Visitors
This month saw the announcement of two follow-up discoveries of two explosive events. Firstly observations of one of the highest energy ever gamma ray burst ever seen, detected back in January, have …
00:35:30 |
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Interstellar Comets, black holes and gravitational waves
October 2019 saw the first all-female spacewalk, and the discover of 20 new moons of Saturn. There were also more observations of interstellar comet Borisov, and evidence for the Milky Way's black ho…
00:41:22 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Habitable zones, Lunar landers and Interstellar interlopers
The space news cycle was dominated for a while this month with the discovery of water vapour in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b. The planet is in the habitable zone of its star, but is somewhat large…
00:19:22 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Lunar Gateways, Belching Black Holes and Warped Galaxies
The summer might be "silly season" in the press, but not so in astronomy. With peroxide on moons and belching black holes there's lots of sensible research going on for us to discuss.
A number of re…
00:24:24 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
Robotic Explorers
July 1969 was the month that the first people walked on the Moon. 12 people walked on the surface of our celestial neighbour between 1969 and 1972. Since then, humanity has been confined to low-Earth…
00:38:28 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
The slowly spinning Sun, Starlink and Spiral Surprises
Mars is covered in craters, but most of them are very old. But new ones do appear from time-to-time, created when objects hit the surface of the red planet. That's just what happened at some point a …
00:37:24 |
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Bonus: Herschel 10 years on
14th May 2009 marked the the launch of the Herschel Space Observatory. Herschel was a cornerstone mission for ESA, the European Space Agency, with the goal of unveiling the hidden Universe. In this s…
00:52:09 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Biomarkers, near-misses and anniversaries
A roundup of the month's news from around the Solar System - and beyond. You don't think of mars rovers having drawers, but that's exactly what has just been installed on the Rosalind Franklin Rover,…
00:25:45 |
Thu 30 May 2019
Engine failures to event horizons
A roundup of the month's news from around the Solar System - and beyond. Starting with the Moon, where the first attempt by a privately funded organisation to land on the Moon has ended in a crash-la…
00:20:16 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
Flying space-shrapnel and a misbehaving Universe
In December 2018 an object hit the Earth's atmosphere at over 100,000 kph over the Arctic Ocean, entirely unnoticed, until the orange streak was spotted in satellite imagery. Meanwhile, two missions …
00:53:08 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
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