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
Water on Mars – Again!
In October 2015 we had news of the discovery of water on Mars – again! Almost a perennial story now, but is this discovery any different to previous discoveries, some of which stretch back to the 197…
00:25:42 |
Thu 29 Oct 2015
AstroCamp and Galaxies
AstroCamp (credit PhysicistPat@Flickr)
The arrival of Autumn means one thing to astronomers: darker skies. Every spring an autumn, astronomers gather along with their telescopes, campervans and tents…
00:31:14 |
Mon 28 Sep 2015
In conversation with Mark McCaughrean
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/NavCam)
On Monday 24th August, Cardiff was treated to a public talk by Prof Mark McCaughrean, Senior Science Advisor in the European Space Agency’s Directorate…
00:33:28 |
Thu 27 Aug 2015
New Horizons at Pluto
On 14th July 2015 the New Horizons probe whizzed past Pluto, providing our first ever close-ups of this tiny world at the edge of our Solar System. This month, Edward Gomez and I discuss why Pluto is…
00:33:19 |
Thu 30 Jul 2015
Radio astronomy close-up
Radio telescopes are normally used for looking at very distant objects thousands, millions, or possibly even billions of light years away. But to do that, they have to look through the Earth’s atmosp…
00:26:44 |
Sun 28 Jun 2015
Solar System round-up
It’s a busy year in the Solar System for robotic explorers, with New Horizons on the way to distant Pluto, Dawn orbiting Ceres in the outer asteroid belt, and Rosetta and Philae accompanying comet 67…
00:18:37 |
Thu 28 May 2015
End of the Messenger
The Messenger probe arrived in orbit around Mercury in March 2011, after a 7 year journey to the innermost planet in our Solar System. It mapped the entire surface of this tiny planet, of which we’d …
00:30:04 |
Thu 30 Apr 2015
Pythagoras’ Trousers: Making the Invisible, Visible
In this special documentary as part of the Pythagoras Trousers radio series, Rhys Phillips visits his alma mater, Cardiff University’s School of Physics & Astronomy, to find out about a new generatio…
00:29:13 |
Thu 02 Apr 2015
Eclipses and the nature of Gravity
In March 2015 there was an eclipse of the Sun. Those who saw the total eclipse from the North Atlantic witnessed one of the most awesome sights imaginable. From more southerly locations we saw a part…
00:21:28 |
Thu 26 Mar 2015
Solar Eclipses and Planck results
Chris North
In March 2015 there will be an eclipse of the Sun. From the UK (apart from a couple of very tiny northern parts) it will be visible as a partial eclipse. In this month’s episode Edward Go…
00:34:00 |
Thu 26 Feb 2015
Beagle 2, and the “Year of the Dwarf Planet”
Chris North
In January it was announced that images from spacecraft orbiting Mars had probably located signs of Beagle 2, the unfortunate UK mission to the red planet which went missing back in 2003.…
00:16:58 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
ExoMars
It has been announced that the UK will lead the design and build of Europe’s next rover to Mars. Part of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars programme, this robotic explorer will drill down up two me…
00:22:38 |
Fri 19 Dec 2014
Adventures of Philae
Chris North
On 12th November 2014, the Philae lander separated from its mothership, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, and made history by making the first ever soft landing on a comet. It wasn’t quite as sof…
00:27:14 |
Thu 27 Nov 2014
MAVEN to Mars
On of Mars Orbiter Mission’s first images of Mars from orbit
In late September, two new missions arrived ion orbit around Mars. One was India’s first mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission, while the othe…
00:25:02 |
Wed 05 Nov 2014
in conversation with Alastair Reynolds
August marked the arrival Loncon 2014, the annual science fiction convention which visits a different city every year. There’s also a lot of science fact presented at such meetings – we were showcasi…
00:29:48 |
Mon 18 Aug 2014
National Astronomy Meeting 2014
Between 23rd and 26th June 2014 over 600 astronomers gathered in Portsmouth for the annual National Astronomy Meeting. This meeting, organised by the Royal Astronomical Society, provides the opportun…
00:21:02 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Cambridge Science Festival and Gravitational Waves from Inflation
For the 31st March episode of Pythagoras’ Trousers, I reported from the Cambridge Science Festival, specifically at the Institute of Astronomy‘s open afternoon. As well as speaking to a number of the…
00:27:31 |
Tue 01 Apr 2014
Asteroids, supernovae and National Astronomy Week
Once a month, I take a look at some of the latest news in astronomy as part of Pythagoras’ Trousers, a weekly science show broadcast on Radio Cardiff. The show’s main presenter is Rhys Phillips, a re…
00:16:42 |
Fri 28 Feb 2014
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