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
Totally Eclipsed
The Total Eclipse of 2017. Copyright: Martin Ratcliffe
August marked one of the most publicised astronomical events of 2017 – a total eclipse of the Sun which was visible the US. Totality, where the …
00:40:20 |
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Stars, Supernovae and Geysers
Artist’s illustration of Supernova 1987A. Image credit: Credit: A. Angelich / NRAO / AUI / NSF
It’s been a busy month for Cardiff astronomers (and their colleagues). From gravity’s role in star forma…
00:39:01 |
Wed 02 Aug 2017
Gravitational Waves and Life from Venus?
At the start of June the LIGO team announced that they had made the third firm detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. This latest detection, from the second observing ru…
00:27:46 |
Sat 01 Jul 2017
Cassini’s Grand Finale
This month we don’t just look back at a few news stories, but also ahead to what’s happening over the coming months for one of the most successful space missions ever: Cassini. Having orbited Saturn …
00:40:51 |
Wed 31 May 2017
The Astronomer Royal and Potatoes on Mars
April’s edition of our monthly astronomy podcast, presented by Chris North and Edward Gomez.
Earlier this month we were treated to a talk in Cardiff by Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal and Prof…
00:31:11 |
Mon 24 Apr 2017
TRAPPIST-1 and other stories
At the end of last month, there was a lot of interest in the discovery of seven roughly Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. One month on, Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss the implicatio…
00:36:11 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Backyard Worlds
Artist’s impression of the proposed Planet Nine. Image Credit: Caltech/R,. Hurt (IPAC)
February saw the first launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Rocket from Launchpad 39A – the same launchpad used by the Apo…
00:30:50 |
Tue 28 Feb 2017
Star Attractions
Image courtesy of National Museum Cardiff
Join Chris North and Edward Gomez as they discuss the month’s astronomy news. Not only were there two new NASA missions announced this month, but Space-X su…
00:26:47 |
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Assassin Supernova
Close-up of star near a supermassive black hole (artist’s impression) Image credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
When is a supernova not a supernova? The brightest supernova on record was discover…
00:33:01 |
Mon 19 Dec 2016
the GLEAM Survey
The GLEAM Survey
We’ve got a lot of news items to discuss this month. In the outer Solar System, Edward Gomez and I discuss the Cassini spacecraft, which has made its final major orbital manoeuvre, a…
00:41:06 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Rosetta & OSIRIS-Rex
This month sees the start of one mission and the end of another. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission launched at the start of the month to go and study asteroid Bennu, and even bring back a sample to Earth.
Me…
00:27:25 |
Mon 26 Sep 2016
Proxima b
Artist’s impression of the view from Proxima b. Image credit: ESA/M/ Kornmesser
After a few weeks of rumours, the announcement of the discovery of an Earth-size (maybe!) planet around the Sun’s near…
00:19:36 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
Mission Juno
Artist’s Impression of a Juno and Jupiter. Credit: NASA
In July 2016 NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its five year journey to the planet Jupiter. On board is a suite of instruments and experiments t…
00:28:47 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
The Origins of Black Holes
Artist’s Impression of a black hole in a binary star system. Credit: ESA/Hubble
On 15th June 2016 the LIGO collaboration released more detections of gravitational waves. As with the first detection, …
00:22:40 |
Thu 30 Jun 2016
New worlds
Artist impression of the Kepler spacecraft
This month’s focus is on two different stories, but both involving the same spacecraft: Kepler. Edward Gomez and I discuss a result from the outer edge of o…
00:32:16 |
Thu 26 May 2016
Interplanetary explorers
In this month’s instalment, Edward Gomez and I chat about interplanetary explorers to the icy worlds of Pluto and Ceres, and Cassini’s capture of interstellar dust as it passed through the Saturn sys…
00:24:47 |
Fri 29 Apr 2016
to Mars – and Beyond!
March 2016 saw the launch of the first part of Europe’s two-part mission to Mars. The mission, called ExoMars, comprises the “Trace Gas Orbiter” – the part that’s just launched – and a large rover, w…
00:23:04 |
Thu 31 Mar 2016
the Voice of Einstein
Unless you’ve been under a bush for the past month, you can’t have missed what could be described the news of the Century – the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This month, I speak to E…
00:36:42 |
Thu 25 Feb 2016
2015 round-up and Tim Peake
It’s been a very exciting year in astronomy and space science, with missions exploring distant reaches of the Solar System. There was a huge media storm about New Horizons passing Pluto back in July,…
00:27:29 |
Sat 19 Dec 2015
Einstein’s Revolution
November 2015 marks the centenary of the publication of one of the most important theories in physics: Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. On this month’s episode I chatted to Prof Mark H…
00:32:13 |
Sat 28 Nov 2015
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