Tropical Paradise
Chris is on a tropical island, while Rob remains in Oxford. But the podcast must go on and we discuss prime numbers. near-Earth asteroids and space monkeys.
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Episode #67. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Twitter statistics: http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/
- Supertasters: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-lab-accident-that-led-to-the-discovery-of-supertasters/272522/
- Iranian Space Monkey: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/04/mystery-iranian-space-monkey.html
- Moon Illusion: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2715
- Asteroid 2012 DA14 http://www.sen.com/news/asteroid-heads-for-closest-predicted-approach-to-earth.html
- Stargazing Oxford talks are online: http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/stargazing
- iOS game: Spaceteam https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spaceteam/id570510529?mt=8
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
Felicitous Tuesday
Chris and Rob waffle on about green stars, latin, birthdays, microlensing, Uranus, asteroids and other things in this 66th episode.
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Episode #66. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Microlensing for asteroids: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6165
- Ikea Hackers: http://www.ikeahackers.net
- Kepler resting: http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=248
- Darwin Correspondance Project: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk
- NASA joins Euclid: http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=51316
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
Your Dung Ball Is Huge
Chris and Rob feel like dung beetles as they roll around in the weeks’ news. Wait no, that’s not right. We discuss dropping steak from space, Betelgeuse, exoplanets and moar!
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Episode #65. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Dung Beetles and the Milky Way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150721
- Spiders at Mars’ North Pole : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-034
- More planets for HAT-P-7 : http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease/2013/01/24/index.html
- Ten hundred words of science: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001022.shtml
- Siding Spring fires: astropixie - http://orbitingfrog.com/post/40594495841/bush-fires-at-siding-spring-observatories-by
- Steak drop: http://what-if.xkcd.com/28/
- Herschel observes Betelgeuse : http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Betelgeuse_braces_for_a_collision
- Is asteroid mining the new black : http://deepspaceindustries.com/ (‘If you can Dream it, you can Be it’)
- Is that a manatee in space? https://www.nrao.edu/pr/2013/w50/
- What If? http://what-if.xkcd.com/
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
Live!
Chris and Rob talk live(!) at Stargazing Oxford, in front an audience: an experience for them and for the audience. A marrow also participates. We answer questions and talk about some highlights from the week’s news.
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Episode #64. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Astronomers: Gangnam style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwaJdik6eI
- It’s really big and it shouldn’t exist : http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6256
- A cloudy mystery in the Galactic Centre : http://www.caltech.edu/content/cloudy-mystery
- The supernova that cried wolf : http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6320
- Iridium flares and http://www.heavens-above.com
- Gorgeous 47 Tuc : http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1302/
- Stargazing Live: http://bbc.co.uk/stargazing
- Planet Four: http://www.planetfour.org
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
People on the Tellybox
Chris and Rob talk about exoplanets, Stargazing Live and then exoplanets again. We’re not going below absolute zero but we are going to Marrsssss.
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Episode #63. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- CBeebies ‘Get Well Soon’ and the anti-vaccination crowd: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/get-well-soon
- Formalhaut b does exist: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/fomalhaut-b-confirmed/
- Below absolute zero? http://www.livescience.com/25959-atoms-colder-than-absolute-zero.html
- PH2b and the others: http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/01/07/a-newly-confirmed-planet-and-42-additional-planet-candidates/
- Stargazing Live: http://bbc.co.uk/stargazing
- Planet Four: http://www.planetfour.org
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
Comets are Like Cats
Chris and Rob find themselves stranded in the year 2013 with nothing but a scrap of paper containing scribbled news notes and a microphone. Will asteroids strike in 2040? Will comets shine bright in 2013? What exactly is inside a poop? How for how many years has WMAP operated? Answers inside…
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Episode #62. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Tau Ceti: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20770103
- Darkened cities by Thierry Cohen: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/38615406507/staceythinx-darkened-cities-by-thierry-cohen
- No asteroid impact in 2040 : http://www.gemini.edu/node/11922
- What’s inside a poop? http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001969
- Final WMAP papers released : http://releases.jhu.edu/2012/12/21/wmap-team-releases-final-results-based-on-nine-years-of-observations/
- Source of CM asteroids : http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2012/12-93AR.html
- Clouds on MWP launches: http://www.milkywayproject.org
- Comet PANSTARRS : March/April, southern sky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_L4
- The Explorer: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Explorer-James-Smythe/dp/0007456751
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
Episode LXI: A New Dawn
Chris and Rob talk all about the Zooniverse in this special episode. It’s been a busy week at the Zooniverse and so we have also recruited special guest Brooke Simmons, as a Galaxy Zoo expert. We focus of the backstory of the past ten days of the Zooniverse, which includes the launch of the Andromeda Project and Snapshot Serengeti.
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Episode #61. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- The Zooniverse: http://www.zooniverse.org
- The Andromeda Project: http://www.andromedaproject.org
- Snapshot Serengeti: http://www.snapshotserengeti.org
- The Milky Way Project: http://www.milkywayproject.org
- Galaxy Zoo: http://www.galaxyzoo.org
- Planet Hunters: http://www.planethunters.org
- Zooniverse Advent Calendar: http://www.zooniverse.org/advent
- Brooke Simmons: http://twitter.com/vrooje
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
All Hail Sir Patrick Moore
Chris and Rob talk about Sir Patrick Moore, who died yesterday at the age of 89. Chris has known Patrick for twenty years and worked with him on The Sky at Night for ten years.
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Episode #60. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
We Can See Things
Chris and Rob discuss the brand new Andromeda Project, the anniversary of Apollo 17 and NASA’s plans for Mars. We also chat about Caroline Herschel: comet chaser and how science works in sign language.
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Episode #59. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- Andromeda Project launches: andromedaproject.org
- Moon Zoo goes to Apollo 17: moonzoo.org
- GRAIL results : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-385
- NASA’s plans to go back to Mars : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1401
- Curiosity’s first chemistry - perchlorate : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1399
- .Astro 5 and Hack Day: http://dotastronomy.com/blog/2012/12/hack-day-in-new-york/
- Comets of Caroline Herschel: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0809v1.pdf
- The infamous Time paragraph : http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/12/05/my-version-of-the-higgs-time-paragraph/
- Sign language for science : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?smid=tw-nytimeshealth&seid=auto&_r=0&pagewanted=all
- Zooniverse advent calendar: https://zooniverse.org/advent
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
The Constellation Not the Disease
Chris and Rob talk about a black hole that is almost as big as it’s host galaxy. Herschel (the telescope) has been looking at dust all over the place and Mary Shelly (the person) writes about writing her most-famous book. Chris told Roger Penrose that birds can see magnetic fields.
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Episode #58. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.
Links:
- A really big black hole : http://www.mpia.de/Public/menu_q2e.php?Aktuelles/PR/2012/PR121128/PR_121128_en.html and http://sarahaskew.net/2012/11/28/small-galaxy-massive-black-hole
- Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts? : http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/219-news-2012/2192-do-missing-jupiters-mean-massive-comet-belts
- Mary Shelley writes about writing Frankenstein in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/nov/26/mary-shelley-frankenstein-preface-1831-archive
- Herschel watches star formation in Lupus: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5232
- Top twitter accounts to follow? Rob says: @yoyoha @BadAstronomer @CatherineQ @telescoper @garwboy @hullodave @arielwaldman @arfon @KarenLMasters @vrooje @Stellar190 @astro_jules @apontzen @astrofairy @codinghorror @jpsmythe
- Elon Musk’s missions to MArs : http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/2012/11/23/video-elon-musk-interview/7553/
- Hanny’s Voorwerp & the Antikythera Mechanism - http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5487
Credits:
Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).
