What could a severe solar storm do to Earth, and are we prepared?
The sun is currently ramping up to hit the peak of its 11-year activity cycle. In the past few...
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Podcasts de astronomy
Hubble at 30: a view into our cosmos
Thirty years ago, the Hubble space telescope was shuttled into orbit, and has since provided us...
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Nasa’s new space telescope and its search for extraterrestrial life
On 22 December, if all goes to plan, the £7.5bn James Webb space telescope (JWST) will be blasted...
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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Rerun)
Today's episode is a rerun of my interview acclaimed astrophysicist, author, and a highly popular...
Cross Section: Hiranya Peiris – Science Weekly podcast
What happened before the Big Bang? This is one of the hardest questions scientists are trying to...
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Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars
Halley Lecture 2013 by Professor Dr Ewine van Dishoeck on new developments in astronomy One of...
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Exploring the worlds of TRAPPIST-1
In Physics World's latest podcast we investigate what we know so far about the recently...
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Episode 107 - Astronomy, Distributed Computing And Aliens!
Lyle Shelton joins me from the Australian Christian Lobotomy. Richard Lane explains how an...
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Cross Section: Jo Dunkley – Science Weekly podcast
Jo Dunkley is a professor of physics and astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. Hannah...
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Black holes: seeing 'the unseeable' – Science Weekly podcast
Using a global network of telescopes, scientists have managed to capture an image of a black hole...
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Looking up in wonder: humanity and the cosmos (part one) – podcast
The history of humanity is intimately entwined with the cosmos. The stars have influenced...
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Looking up in wonder: humanity and the cosmos (part two)
There is something undeniably appealing about the cosmos that has kept humans staring upwards in...
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Last month, billionaire after billionaire hopped into spacecraft to reach the final frontier....
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Best of 2022: James Webb space telescope – thousands of galaxies in a grain of sand
When Nasa unveiled the first images from the long-awaited James Webb space telescope, they...
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Euclid: will the mission uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy?
Ian Sample speaks to the cosmologist Dr Andrew Pontzen about the European Space Agency’s Euclid...
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Fear of the light: why we need darkness - podcast
Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when...
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Space Journalist Leonard David on NatGeo's MARS
MARS, a six-part miniseries from Ron Howard, premiered this week on National Geographic Channel,...
The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet
The 8th Hintze Lecture by Professor David Charbonneau looking at investigating habitable...
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31: The universe is made of dander
What's outside our solar system? Where does the solar system end? (ABC, Australia) Where in the...
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The most spectacular Supermoon since 1948 light up our sky in November, appearing 14 per cent...
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