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
March 2010
In the show this time we learn about supernovae and dust from Professor Mike Barlow [10:40-27:16]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [01:32-10:29] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in…
00:50:52 |
Thu 04 Mar 2010
February 2010 Extra
In this show we find out about space weather from Jim Wild [00:43-09:01] and talk to Marek Kukula about all things Solar [09:01-14:19], Tim answers your astronomical questions [17:21-37:31], and we r…
00:39:15 |
Fri 19 Feb 2010
February 2010
We have a couple of interview with scientists at the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes. We find out about the observatory and compact binaries from Dr Pablo Rodríguez-Gil [09:39-32:45] and planetary n…
Mon 01 Feb 2010
January 2010 Extra
We talk to Stewart Eyres about Sakauri's Object [01:07-18:08], we put your astronomical questions to Tim [22:22-46:18], and round-up your feedback. Apologies for the audio quality this time; one of o…
00:51:04 |
Sat 23 Jan 2010
January 2010
It's the end of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. We bring you some of our highlights of the year which celebrated 400 years of the astronomical telescope. We get updates on the 365 Days of A…
Sat 02 Jan 2010
December 2009 Extra
In this show we talk to Sir Francis Graham-Smith about his life, being Astronomer Royal and his work on pulsars [01:00-23:44]. We put your astronomical questions to the Jodcast panel [24:19-46:03], a…
00:53:21 |
Tue 22 Dec 2009
December 2009
After months of talking about it we finally recorded an episode (1 of 2) with a live studio audience. In this bumper show we have an interview with Dr Chris Lintott where we find out about the latest…
Tue 01 Dec 2009
November 2009 Extra
In this show we find out about the ongoing upgrades to the Very Large Array in New Mexico from Dr Rick Perley [00:51-31:20]. We put your astronomical questions to Dr Tim O'Brien [36:22-52:37], get a …
00:54:22 |
Tue 17 Nov 2009
November 2009
In this show we have an interview with John Sarkissian about the history of the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia [12:50-45:54]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [01:50-10:35] and Ian Mor…
Tue 03 Nov 2009
October 2009 Extra
In this show we find out about Autumn Moonwatch from Steve Owens [01:59-07:31] and we hear all about the rings and moons of Saturn from Prof. Carl Murray [10:05-39:44]. We put your astronomical quest…
Tue 20 Oct 2009
October 2009
In this show we have an interview with Robert Laing about interferometers and ALMA [14:16-29:49], and we talk to Willem Baan about interference in radio astronomy [29:57-40:33]. As always, Megan brin…
Fri 02 Oct 2009
September 2009 Extra
In this show Megan talks to Robert Hollow (ATNF) about Pulse@Parkes [01:04-17:18], we put your astronomical questions to Dr Roy Smits [25:40-40:12], get a summary of recent spacecraft news [17:18-25:…
00:42:23 |
Sun 20 Sep 2009
September 2009
We're back from our summer break with an interview about 'anomalous emission' [13:43-27:39]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [02:10-10:45] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the S…
00:50:02 |
Wed 02 Sep 2009
August 2009
This episode features an interview we recorded with Prof Miller Goss about pioneering Australian radio astronomer Ruby Payne Scott [13:17-38:21]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [01:04-11:…
Mon 03 Aug 2009
July 2009 Extra
With it being the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Earth's Moon, we dedicate most of this episode to things lunar. We mention the latest amazing images from NASA's LRO showing the Apo…
00:46:17 |
Mon 20 Jul 2009
July 2009
It's summer and the Jodcasters are dispersed but Jen and Dave managed to meet up in Milan's central station to record this episode. This episode features an interview we recorded with Vik Dhillon in …
00:43:57 |
Mon 06 Jul 2009
June 2009 Extra
Meteorites can tell us a surprising amount about our solar system and its environment. In this episode we talk to Ernst Zinner about his studies of pre-solar grains from meteorites [00:53-26:17]. As …
00:44:39 |
Fri 19 Jun 2009
June 2009
This episode we bring the last of the interviews that were recorded at the JENAM. We have an interview with Mike Lockwood about the variability of the Sun [10:53-38:17] and talk to Jim Hinton about h…
Tue 02 Jun 2009
May 2009 Extra
This jam-packed show comes at the end of a jam-packed week of major events in astronomy. We have more interviews recorded at JENAM including what's next for the International Year of Astronomy [02:11…
Sun 17 May 2009
May 2009
It's Roy's last episode before he returns to the Netherlands and we welcome some of the new Jodcast Juniors. The Jodcast Juniors were our roving reporters at the Joint European and National Astronomy…
Sat 02 May 2009
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