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
Hopping spacecraft and Rosalind the Rover
Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss the latest events from around the Solar System. Hayabusa 2 has successfully hopped down onto the surface of Ryugu, meanwhile an Israeli lander has been launched t…
00:40:39 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
Cartwheeling snowmen and raining rings
Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss the latest events from around the Solar System. At the start of the year, the Chinese Space Agency successfully landed their latest lander (Chang'e 4) on the far …
00:28:26 |
Thu 31 Jan 2019
2018: a year in space
Chris North, Mat Allen and Sarah Roberts discuss the highlights of 2018, and look forward to 2019. From missions to the inner Solar System, landers on Mars, and rovers on asteroids, lots has happened…
00:17:18 |
Sun 30 Dec 2018
Kepler's Legacy
Chris North, Matt Smith and Sarah Roberts discuss the landing of NASA's Insight probe, which is set to investigate the interior of Mars and search for Mars-quakes. Closer to home, we're celebrating 2…
00:31:40 |
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Changing with the times
Chris North, Sarah Roberts and Mat Allen discuss the launch of Bepi Colombo, which is on its way to study the planet Mercury. Meanwhile, the Hayabusa 2 mission continues its exploration of the astero…
00:32:30 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
Vulcans, dust storms, and Water on Mars
Chris North, Sarah Roberts and Mat Allen discuss a number of recent news stories. One of the latest planets to be discovered, "40 Eridani A a", seems to be a lot like the fictional planet Vulcan, hom…
00:40:12 |
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Parking near the Sun
Earlier this month it was announced that an entrepreneur would like to launch an "artificial star" into orbit, adding to the mass of space junk. Chris North and Edward Gomez give their views on the m…
00:27:16 |
Thu 30 Aug 2018
Icy Moons and Ice Cubes
July's astronomy update from Chris North and Edward Gomez. It was announced this month that Jupiter has got even more moons than previously thought, with its total haul now coming in at 79! We discus…
00:44:12 |
Wed 25 Jul 2018
Organics, asteroids and Nobel Prize winners
There were new results about organic compounds from two places in the Solar System this month: the planet Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres. We discuss what organic compounds are, and why their discove…
00:26:41 |
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Bonus: In conversation with a Nobel Prize Winner
In May 2018 we welcomed to Cardiff a Nobel Prize winner: Professor Barry Barish, who was one of the scientists who founded the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, As regular listeners will remember, LIGO …
01:11:48 |
Wed 27 Jun 2018
Missions to Mars and plumes from Europa
This month has seen missions large and small launch towards Mars, and new results from the Gaia satellite. Meanwhile, astronomers have been using machine learning to address a number of problems – we…
00:24:14 |
Thu 31 May 2018
Exoplanet Missions and EWASS roundup
April saw Liverpool host the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, from which there were a many new developments and discoveries, a few of which we discuss this month. The conference came jus…
00:35:26 |
Wed 25 Apr 2018
Remembering Stephen Hawking
Earlier this month the world was saddened to hear of the death of Professor Stephen Hawking, arguably one of the most famous physicists of recent times. He died peacefully at the age of 76, having li…
00:39:23 |
Wed 28 Mar 2018
March Bonus: Stephen Hawking's Theories
To accompany the March episode of Pythagorean Astronomy remembering Professor Stephen Hawking, we’re also releasing the uncut(!) version of the interview with Professor Peter Coles, in which he discu…
00:18:47 |
Wed 28 Mar 2018
Tumbling Space Cucumbers and 5000 sols on Mars
Ever taken a selfie on your birthday? Well, that's just what the Mars Rover Opportunity did to celebrate its 5000th "sol" (martian day) on Mars. This doesn't sound like much, but 5000 sols is about 1…
00:55:17 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Glitterballs, habitable exoplanets and supermassive stars
Space is getting crowded, so the recent launch of a space glitterball (called the “Humanity Star”) by RocketLabs has irked astronomers. Our suggestion: why not go and look at the space station instea…
00:34:38 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Planetary Response Network and 2017 Review
To some, astronomy is a purely a curiosity-driven activity, trying to understand more about the Universe around us. While that is the primary reason for a great many astronomers, there are many ways …
00:43:06 |
Sat 30 Dec 2017
The Star That Would Not Die
Artist’s impression of the star that would not die. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STSci)
When a star explodes in a supernova, it’s generally assumed that once the afterglow has faded the star wi…
00:29:30 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
Gravity and Light
Artist’s impression of the collision of two neutron stars. Image credit: NSF/LIGO/SSU/A.Simonnet
On 16th October a huge team of astronomers announced to the world that they had detected, for the firs…
00:27:59 |
Wed 25 Oct 2017
Cassini’s Grand Finale
Cassini at Saturn. Image credit: NASA
The 15th of September marked the Cassini spacecraft’s final plunge into Saturn’s gaseous atmosphere. This grand finale marked then end of a 20 year journey, 13 o…
00:29:50 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
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