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
May 2016 Extra
The Ocean Machine Is Set To 9. In the show this time, Dr. Sambit Roychowdhury talks to us about dwarf galaxies [17:22 - 38:44], Professor Phillipa Browning talks to us about the Sun in this month's…
Thu 19 May 2016
May 2016
Reaching Out. In the show this time, we talk to Richard Lake [11:33 - 18:19], Dr. Sarah Crowther [18:23 - 22:55], and Dr. Giles Johnson [23:03 - 29:05] at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industr…
Sat 07 May 2016
April 2016 Extra
In the show this time, we talk to Dr Izaskun Jiminez-Serra about astrochemistry [00:13:35.215 - 00:42:22.470], Professor Richard Battye tells us about the SuperCLuster Assisted Shear Survey in this m…
Mon 18 Apr 2016
April 2016
Radio Burst. In the show this time, we talk to Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis about solar magnetism [11:05 - 28:16], Ian Harrison rounds up the latest news [02:22 - 10:55] and we find out what we can…
Fri 01 Apr 2016
March 2016
United In Radio Silence. For the second time in history we are recording live with a studio audience in celebration of a decade of Jodcasting! In the show this time, we talk to about Stuart Lowe and …
Mon 21 Mar 2016
February 2016
Recovering. Last month, we had the BBC here at Jodrell Bank for the filming of the annual Stagazing Live specials. We were lucky enough to get backstage access, leading to some fantastic interviews …
Mon 01 Feb 2016
January 2016 Extra
Just In Time. In a special 10th birthday episode of the Jodcast, Professor John Seiradakis talks to us about the Antikythera Mechanism [18:21 - 47:22], Dr. Jean-Francois Robitaille describes the intr…
Thu 14 Jan 2016
January 2016
Farewell Enceladus. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Judith Croston about the radio galaxy population [01:28.004 - 16:08.556], and we find out what we can see in the January night sky from Ian M…
00:59:45 |
Sat 09 Jan 2016
December 2015 Extra
Resurfacing. In the show this time, Professor Frank Close describes the life of Bruno Pontecorvo [38:05.515 - 57:31.363], Professor Ralph Spencer talks to us about cosmic rays, peryton and intefero…
Tue 29 Dec 2015
December 2015
Generally good. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Tom Kitching about weak gravitational lensing [08:35 - 32:43], Mat rounds up the latest news [00:54 - 08:22] and we find out what we can see in t…
Tue 08 Dec 2015
November 2015 Extra
Golden. In the show this time, Dr Tom Broadhurst talks to us about cold dark matter in galaxy clusters [00:49 - 16:47], Dr Simon Rookyard describes porridge, pulsars and polarisation [16:52 - 26:0…
Wed 25 Nov 2015
November 2015
Spooky. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Caroline D'Angelo about accretion around extreme objects [10:58.73 - 30:45.40], Ian rounds up the latest news [00:49.04-10:51.38] and we find out what we…
Sun 08 Nov 2015
October 2015 Extra
Leaping. In the show this time, Dr Tony Rushton talks to us about jets in X-ray binaries [18:13 - 37:19], James Mckee explains his efforts to find gravitational waves using pulsars [02:16 - 15:45], a…
Mon 19 Oct 2015
October 2015
Martians and Wolves. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Yin-Zhe Ma about the CMB and the limits of cosmology [09:17 - 27:21], Indy rounds up the latest news [00:52-09:09] and we find out what we c…
Tue 06 Oct 2015
September 2015 Extra
Rewound. In the show this time, Dr Rainer Beck explains the complexities of studying galactic magnetic fields [19:33 - 36.54], Hannah Stacey talks to us about strong gravitational lensing [01:13 - 19…
Tue 22 Sep 2015
September 2015
Banner. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Chris Gordon about mysterious gamma rays [10:07 - 22:20], Ian rounds up the latest news [01:23-09:58] and we find out what we can see in the September ni…
Fri 04 Sep 2015
August 2015
Bucky Balls. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Amanda Karakas about star evolution [06:17 - 20:24], Ian rounds up the latest news [00:53 - 06:10] and we find out what we can see in the August nig…
00:50:57 |
Mon 03 Aug 2015
July 2015
Awake. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Sarah Crowther about cosmochemistry [07:34 - 26:45], Indy rounds up the latest news [00:44-07:27] and we find out what we can see in the July night sky fr…
00:59:33 |
Mon 06 Jul 2015
June 2015 Extra
Farewells. In the show this time, Professor Douglas Scott gives us a very thorough overview of the current state of CMB research [24:55 - 46:36], Dr Mark Purver does his final interview for the Jodca…
Mon 22 Jun 2015
June 2015
Real. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Debora Sijacki about cosmological simulations [08:01 - 20:24], Indy rounds up the latest news [00:46-07:53] and we find out what we can see in the June nig…
00:49:12 |
Fri 05 Jun 2015
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