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The Urban Astronomer Podcast

The Urban Astronomer podcast is the audio version of the popular Urban Astronomer website, which has been sharing news and information about space science and astronomy since the year 2009. The website has undergone several facelifts, and changes in editorial style and focus over the years, but it's always stayed true to its principles of honest science presented simply, without oversimplifying.

While Urban Astronomer is not the largest or most popular astronomy website on the internet, we've managed to retain a small, loyal following who have stuck with us through both good times (Allen won a special commendation in a science journalism award ceremony), and bad (when output slowed to about one new posting per month, thanks to increased family and work pressure).

This podcast is the next chapter in the Urban Astornomer story, and features News, Science, Interviews, and the occasional rant on the role and perception of science and astronomy in the modern world.

We at Urban Astonomer expect to become one of South Africa's leading science and astronomy podcasts within the year. If we think we deserve that position, you can help us by simply listening the the episodes, and sharing them with your friends. And if we don't meet your standard, we're definitely open to criticism.



Thanks for listening!

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Update frequency
every 18 days
Average duration
31 minutes
Episodes
30
Years Active
2018 - 2022
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Impossible exoplanets and Rhetoric

Impossible exoplanets and Rhetoric


This is episode 62 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, our first release of 2022. Happy New year!



In this episode, we're doing something a little different. Traditionally we alternate between interv…
00:26:01  |   Wed 12 Jan 2022
Interview with Dr Julia Healy

Interview with Dr Julia Healy

This episode features an interview with Dr Julia Healy, a post-doctoral fellow at Astron, working on the MHONGOOSE survey
00:38:43  |   Tue 26 Oct 2021
How do we know what things in space are made from?

How do we know what things in space are made from?


This is episode 60 of the Urban Astronomer podcast! Is that a milestone? Sure, but we'll save the party hats for episode 75. Today we'll just get on with the job at hand, and bring you a science exp…
00:20:34  |   Thu 10 Sep 2020
Interview with Imogen Whittam

Interview with Imogen Whittam


This is the 5th episode of season 3 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. Today we feature an interview we recorded earlier this year, before we went into pandemic lockdown, featuring Dr Imogen Whittam. …
00:25:04  |   Sat 08 Aug 2020
Southern skies and Northern skies

Southern skies and Northern skies


It's another Science Explainy Bit episode, and today we answer a question asked by another podcaster while interviewing us for their show. The host wanted to know how the view of southern skies comp…
00:17:20  |   Thu 09 Jul 2020
Interview with Carol Botha

Interview with Carol Botha

In this episode we interview Carol Botha, an amateur astronomer from South Africa who remembers seeing Sputnik as a little girl in a small town, and who currently serves as a product ambassador for t…
01:03:51  |   Wed 24 Jun 2020
What’s the deal with Leap Years?

What’s the deal with Leap Years?


Today's episode is the first Science Explainy Bit of the season, and it's another basic, classic topic: Leap Years. As a reminder, I love looking at the questions that seem simple because we think o…
00:17:57  |   Tue 09 Jun 2020
Interview with Dr Tony Lelliott

Interview with Dr Tony Lelliott


At long last, the third season of the Urban Astronomer Podcast has kicked off! We thought the last season went so well that we've decided to keep things much as they are, with perhaps the occasional…
00:27:39  |   Mon 25 May 2020
Season 3 launching next week

Season 3 launching next week


This is just a short note to let you know that we're still here, and that the new season launches next week! Long-time listeners have been waiting for this since February, but I don't think there's …
00:02:33  |   Mon 18 May 2020
Season Three coming soon…

Season Three coming soon…

A quick update for loyal fans who have been asking when they can expect season three: It's nearly here!
00:02:55  |   Tue 25 Feb 2020
Star colours and what space is like

Star colours and what space is like


So here we are, at the final episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast's second season. As per the schedule, it's a Question/Answer episode, and you'll get to hear two new science explainy bits! These…
00:32:42  |   Thu 05 Dec 2019
Interview with Nicole Thomas

Interview with Nicole Thomas


In this episode, we interview Nicole Thomas, a PhD student at the University of the Western Cape with an interest in the evolution of galaxies, and the super-massive black holes that lie within. We …
00:36:22  |   Tue 19 Nov 2019
Guns in Space and Why Venus is so Hot

Guns in Space and Why Venus is so Hot


I love these podcast episodes where I get to give you a double dose of science explainy bits! In this episode, the two questions I answer were both asked by people who've previously been featured th…
00:26:18  |   Wed 06 Nov 2019
Interview with Dr Tana Joseph

Interview with Dr Tana Joseph

This is episode 9 of the 2nd season of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, featuring an interview with Dr Tana Joseph.  It's been an interesting two weeks since the last episode - I've settled further into…
00:38:28  |   Tue 22 Oct 2019
Why did I defend the geocentric model?

Why did I defend the geocentric model?

In this eighth episode of the second season, I defend my defense of the Ptolemaic geocentric system of crystal spheres! I hadn't even realized till I started recording that this is our 50th ever epis…
00:32:55  |   Tue 08 Oct 2019
Interview with Dr Jarita Holbrook

Interview with Dr Jarita Holbrook

In Episode 7 of the second season of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, I chat with Dr Jarita Holbrook of the University of the Western Cape about her interest in cultural astronomy. This was one of the l…
00:41:19  |   Tue 24 Sep 2019
Why do planets orbit in the same plane?

Why do planets orbit in the same plane?

In episode 48 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, we're doing another Science Explainy bit! These segments are where you get to hear my droning voice explain some fundamentals and answer listener questi…
00:22:22  |   Tue 10 Sep 2019
Interview with Dr Rosalind Skelton

Interview with Dr Rosalind Skelton

This is episode five of this season of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. As usual, this being the 4th show of the month, we have an Interview episode today, and this is the one that gets us back to our s…
00:34:10  |   Mon 26 Aug 2019
How do orbits work?

How do orbits work?

Welcome to another Science Explainy Bit episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. Today we try to figure out just what an "orbit" actually is. Is it really as simple as they said in primary school? Ho…
00:19:51  |   Tue 13 Aug 2019
Interview with Dr Daniel Cunnama

Interview with Dr Daniel Cunnama

Welcome to the 3rd episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, season 2, featuring Dr Daniel Cunnama. We almost didn't make it this week, thanks to a major technical hitch, but we worked around it and h…
00:44:21  |   Tue 30 Jul 2019
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