Chasing comets, Indian lunar ambitions, Juno at Jupiter
This month the team discuss the UK-led ESA mission to fly by a comet as it enters the Solar System, India’s new lunar spacecraft and the latest from NASA’s Juno probe at Jupiter. Plus, we speak to ex…
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Mon 19 Aug 2019
Bluedot Festival 2019 special
The team return to Jodrell Bank in Cheshire for a weekend of science and music at Bluedot 2019. We speak to Prof Tim O’Brien about the important astronomy undertaken by the Lovell Telescope and the l…
00:33:57 |
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Apollo 11: 50th anniversary special
50 years ago, humans set foot on the surface of the Moon for the first time. This episode the BBC Sky at Night Magazine team discuss the legacy of Apollo, the landing sites, the items left on the Moo…
00:44:25 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
Talking moonwalkers with Andrew Smith
In a special episode of Radio Astronomy, we talk to Andrew Smith author of Moon Dust. In the early 2000s, Smith hunted down and talked with all nine living moon walkers. As the 50th anniversary of Ap…
00:23:05 |
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Touring the Solar System
The team from BBC Sky at Night Magazine take a look at marsquakes, asteroid impacts and the secrets of the Solar System in this month’s episode. Featuring an interview with asteroid expert Sarah Crow…
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Thu 23 May 2019
Black holes, asteroid bombs and the solar cycle
This episode the BBC Sky at Night Magazine team discuss the recent image of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy, and the Japanese Hayabusa2 asteroid sample mission. Plus, we speak to T…
00:32:39 |
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Kielder Observatory Special
The BBC Sky at Night Magazine team visit Kielder Observatory in Northumberland to experience truly dark skies and find out how observatory staff are spreading the stargazing bug.
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Mon 15 Apr 2019
Light pollution, Mars rovers and Jupiter's storms
In the April edition of Radio Astronomy, the crew from BBC Sky at Night Magazine look at the effects light pollution, talk about the trials and tribulations of the Mars rovers and delve deep into Jup…
00:34:11 |
Thu 21 Mar 2019
Planet 9 in doubt, a beautiful Beehive and an aurora adventure
BBC Sky at Night Magazine’s creators discuss the latest theories about Planet 9 with physicist Antranik Sefilian, plus there’s chat about aurora hunting and the achievements of Apollo 9.
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00:29:11 |
Mon 25 Feb 2019
New Horizons and event horizons
This episode we look at the Chinese lunar mission Chang’e 4, discuss the New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule and wonder why a black hole isn’t as strong as a fridge magnet. We speak to Martin Harwit, …
00:35:40 |
Wed 23 Jan 2019
Lunar eclipses, 2019’s space missions and green stars
The team of BBC Sky at Night Magazine discuss lunar eclipses look at the new raft of space missions coming in 2019, including an interview with Kerri Donaldson Hanna about the OSIRIS-Rex mission to t…
00:39:41 |
Thu 20 Dec 2018
2018 in review and scientific observations of Mars
We discuss the biggest space stories of 2018 including Kepler, UK rocket launches and the blood moon. Plus we hear from the British Astronomical Association’s Mars section director Richard McKim abou…
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Wed 21 Nov 2018
Ice on the Moon, Apollo 7 and advice for new astronomers
The team discuss the discovery of water on the Moon and take a look back at the Apollo 7 mission. Vatican observatory director Guy Consolmagno gives his advice for getting started in practical astron…
00:50:41 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
NASA's Dawn mission, Holst’s Planets and water on Mars
We look back on 100 years of Holst’s musical work The Planets and discuss the success of NASA’s Dawn mission at Ceres and Vesta. Plus, we speak to Roberto Orosei, an astronomer who led a recent study…
00:24:53 |
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Bluedot Festival 2018 special
In this special edition of Radio Astronomy, we’re live at the world famous Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire for the Bluedot science and music festival 2018.
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00:37:30 |
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Meteor showers and space rocks that fall to Earth
Meteorite hunter Peter Jenniskens talks to us about his recent find of a meteorite in the Botswanan bush, and we reveal our stargazing tips for the Perseid meteor shower.
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00:26:17 |
Mon 23 Jul 2018
The Sun, a danger to life on Earth?
Chris Scott, Professor of Space and Atmospheric Physics at the University of Reading, speaks to us about just how dangerous solar activity is to life on Earth and what’s going on at the surface of th…
00:37:00 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
The mission to map the Milky Way
We speak to Prof Gerry Gilmore, principal investigator for the UK participation in the Gaia mission to map 1.7 billion stars in our Galaxy. The team also discuss strange stars, the Stellarium online …
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Mon 21 May 2018
Sifting through Mars's sediment with a planetary geologist
We speak to sedimentary geologist and Curiosity mission co-investigator Prof Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London.
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Fri 20 Apr 2018
Bowie, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
In this first episode of an all-new, sparkly format for Radio Astronomy we look at our favourite bits of BBC Sky at Night Magazine’s April 18 issue and speak to Dr Alan Penny, vice-president of METI …
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Thu 29 Mar 2018
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