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
April 2009 Extra
In this episode Roy talks to amateur astronomer Brian Woosnam about his love of astronomy and his local astronomical society [00:59-17:09]. We talk about what happened during the 100 Hours of Astrono…
00:41:43 |
Fri 17 Apr 2009
April 2009
It's Nick's last episode of the Jodcast and Dave makes a return after his Indian trip. In this episode we hear about finding planets with the upcoming LOFAR radio telescope from Dr Ian Stevens [09:55…
00:46:54 |
Wed 01 Apr 2009
March 2009 Extra
With the 100 Hours of Astronomy quickly approaching, we find out what will be happening over the course of the four days [01:08-07:06] and get details about a 24 hour observatory webcast [07:38-13:21…
00:57:34 |
Wed 18 Mar 2009
March 2009
In this episode we find out about supermassive blackholes in the early universe [15:24 - 39:40] from Professor Marco Spaans and we encourage you to hold star parties and other events during the 100 H…
00:58:47 |
Thu 05 Mar 2009
February 2009 Extra
Nick and Stuart talk about the latest Jodcast video about Newton's Principia, Nick talks to Professor Albert Zijlstra about primitive dust [02:34-13:19], Tim was here to answer listener questions [13…
00:26:34 |
Sat 21 Feb 2009
February 2009
In this episode we find out about observations of regions of massive star formation [10:15 - 20:02] from Dr Steve Longmore and we hear about a chance to vote on what you would like the Hubble Space T…
00:41:17 |
Mon 02 Feb 2009
January 2009 Extra
In this episode Colin Stuart visits the Herschel Museum in Bath to find out about the astronomical work of William and Caroline Herschel [01:51 - 28:57], we bring you the first Ask an Astronomer of 2…
00:49:30 |
Mon 19 Jan 2009
January 2009
With it being the end of the year we round-up our favourite astronomical images of 2008 [17:16 - 25:05]. We also discuss the International Year of Astronomy and hear about a new astronomy podcast fro…
00:42:17 |
Thu 01 Jan 2009
December 2008 Extra
It's the last show before Christmas so the show is a little shorter than usual. First up we bring news of two special video episode that will be out in the next few days. In our interview [04:27-27:1…
00:37:40 |
Fri 19 Dec 2008
December 2008
Oh no it didn't, but it will produce infrared surveys of galaxies. In our main interview [12:32 - 30:05] we talk to Dr Matt Jarvis (University of Hertfordshire) about the ongoing attempts to detect g…
Tue 02 Dec 2008
November 2008 Extra
We bring you breaking news of two separate discoveries of extra solar planets. In our main interview [05:14 - 21:47] we talk to Dr George Hobbs (Australia Telescope National Facility) about the ongoi…
00:40:48 |
Sun 16 Nov 2008
November 2008
Catherine Heymans tells us [09:19 - 25:03] about observations of dark matter in the supercluster Abell 901/902. As usual we get the latest news from Megan [00:57 - 07:43] and find out what you can se…
00:40:03 |
Mon 03 Nov 2008
October 2008 Extra
We find out about the Jodrell Bank Meteor Detector from Eddie Blackhurst [02:25-11:47]. We talk to Roberta Paladini about her studies of astronomical objects - such as our own galaxy - that obscure o…
Fri 17 Oct 2008
October 2008
You don't see the same universe twice. This month Jim Cordes tells us [20:12 - 34:25] about the recently discovered class of pulsars which emit their pulses in a very intermittent way. Jim also tells…
00:53:55 |
Fri 03 Oct 2008
September 2008 Extra
In this show Tim returns to answer your questions about astronomy [09:04-37:16] and we talk to Andreas Faltenbacher about dark matter halos in the Millennium Simulation [37:38-76:56].
Thu 18 Sep 2008
September 2008
This month we bring you a final interview that we conducted at the National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast. Dill Faulkes, the man behind the Faulkes Telescope project, tells us why he set it up and wha…
00:49:07 |
Tue 02 Sep 2008
August 2008 Extra
In space nobody can hear you scream but that doesn't mean that it is totally quiet. In this show, Tim O'Brien helps our ears to explore the sounds of the cosmos [08:12-46:53] and Elaine Barrett tells…
Mon 18 Aug 2008
August 2008
On 1st August 2008 parts of the world experienced a total solar eclipse. In the UK we saw a partial solar eclipse and the Jodcast was at Jodrell Bank Observatory with our eclipse special. We talk to …
00:47:30 |
Sat 02 Aug 2008
July 2008
With 95% of the content of the universe being dark, we ask Jochen Weller about dark energy and models that describe the expansion of the universe [16:28 - 31:17]. As usual we also get the latest news…
00:45:52 |
Tue 01 Jul 2008
June 2008 Extra
In the show this time we find out how astronomers and particle physicists are detecting cosmic rays hitting our atmosphere with the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina [13:43 - 40:41]. Nick also gi…
00:42:53 |
Tue 17 Jun 2008
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