The Jodcast
The Jodcast is an astronomy podcast created by students and staff from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The episodes include the latest astronomy news, interviews with astronomers, stargazing information, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 323
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
IMC 2012
Meteor. In this International Meteor Conference Special Edition, we bring you a selection of interviews from the IMC which was held in La Palma, Canary Islands.
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Thu 18 Oct 2012
October 2012
Curious. In the show this time Dr David Moss talks about the magnetic fields of spiral galaxies [09:25 - 22:24] and Dr David Jess talks about the sun and it's corona [22:34 - 36:51]. We find out wh…
Mon 01 Oct 2012
September 2012 Extra
Elevation. In the show this time, Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn [16:20 - 36:24] talks to us about the interplay between baryonic and dark matter in galaxy formation, Eddie Blackhurst [00:45 - 16:11] abou…
Mon 17 Sep 2012
September 2012
Tranquility. In the show this time, we have more interviews from the National Astronomy Meeting as Dr Simon Green tells us about collecting cometary dust with the Stardust-NExT mission [07:29 - 19:42…
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Mon 03 Sep 2012
August 2012 Extra
Sir Bernard Lovell, 1913-2012. We begin this episode with a look back at the life of Sir Bernard Lovell [1:03 - 5:56], founder of Jodrell Bank, who sadly died on the 6th of August at the age of 98. W…
Fri 17 Aug 2012
August 2012
A Ring To It. In the show this time, Dr Fergus Simpson tells us about mapping dark matter using weak gravitational lensing [08:44 - 14:49] and Professor Carlos Frenk talks about exploring the nature …
Thu 02 Aug 2012
July 2012 Extra
Anti-ageing. In this episode we talk to Dr Fraser Clarke [14:37 - 24:05] about the E-ELT telescope, Dr Lisa Kaltenegger [24:28 - 29:40] about rocky exoplanets, and Dr Michelle Collins [29:58 - 42:49]…
Mon 16 Jul 2012
July 2012
Amity. In the show this time, we find out about Ian Morison's trip to observe the transit of Venus [11:14 - 21:00], Dr Paolo Padovani tells us about active galactic nuclei [21:47 - 34:53] and we talk…
Mon 02 Jul 2012
June 2012 Extra
Twice-in-a-lifetime. In this episode we talk to Dr Katharine Johnston [10:35 - 18:32] about massive star formation, Professor Ed Copeland [18:40 - 30:18] about alternative theories of gravity, and Dr…
Mon 18 Jun 2012
June 2012
Captured. This month, we continue our feast of interviews from the National Astronomy Meeting. We talk to Dr Patrick Sutton [9:15-19:56] about gravitational wave detection with LIGO, Dr Antonio Chrys…
Sat 02 Jun 2012
May 2012 Extra
Photogenic. In the show this time, Nik Szymanek [07:14 - 21:46] tells us about astrophotography, Dr. Thomas Targett tells us about supermassive black holes [35:53 - 42:35] and Prof. Alan Fitzsimmons …
Wed 16 May 2012
May 2012
Piggy-Back. In this month's show we bring you the first of many interviews recorded at the National Astronomy Meeting. We talk to Dr Jayne Birkby [7:09-20:18] about Hot Jupiter planets, Dr Nick Cross…
Wed 02 May 2012
April 2012 Extra
Alternative. In the show this time, Dr Christine Jordan tells us about the computers that run the telescope and about the data processing at Jodrell Bank in this month's JodBite [0:56 - 10:44], we ta…
Mon 16 Apr 2012
April 2012
Fooling No-one. In the show this month, Megan rounds up the latest news [01:01 - 08:43] and we find out what's in the April night sky from Ian Morison and John Field [08:54 - 25:49].
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Tue 03 Apr 2012
NAM 2012
Namchester. We bring you four bite-sized chunks of the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester, recorded each day during the conference. In the first of the NAM special episodes, Libby reports on th…
Fri 30 Mar 2012
March 2012 Extra
The Light Side. In the show this time, Prof. Philippa Browning tells us about the upcoming National Astronomy Meeting and solar physics in the JodBite [2:07 - 15:52], we talk to Prof. Tom Shanks abou…
Fri 16 Mar 2012
March 2012
Flat-packed. In this LOFAR-themed episode, we talk to Dr Neal Jackson [08:55 - 23:35] about the Low Frequency Array itself, Dr Tom Hassall [23:47-30:52] tells us about using it to detect pulsars and …
Fri 02 Mar 2012
February 2012 Extra
Turtle. In the show this time, Dr Danielle Fenech [11:32 - 27:15] tells us about starburst galaxies and we talk to Dr Ant Holloway [01:20 - 11:25] about his role at Jodrell Bank in the JodBite. Your…
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Thu 16 Feb 2012
February 2012
Sweet. This time around, we talk to Dr Lucie Green [05:05 - 12:30] about Solar activity and Dr Paul Woods [12:43-24:13] tells us about a sweet molecule in space. Megan rounds up the latest news [02:0…
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Fri 03 Feb 2012
January 2012 Extra
Bitten. In the show this time, Dr David Floyd [12:24 - 35:22] tells us about microlensing and we talk to Dr Tim O'Brien [01:22 - 12:17] about his role at Jodrell Bank in the first ever JodBite. Your…
Mon 16 Jan 2012
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