Wang It
Chris has made a terribly academic error and Rob has been in Chicago. Many things are thrown at the Moon, Herschel is no more and Hubble turned 23.
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Episode #76. 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:
- Perils of translation and open source: http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/05/02/how-to-translate-galaxy-zoo/
- Kepler-62 most Earth-like planet yet? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/kepler-62-diagram.html
- Horsehead with Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1307/
- xkcd’s ‘is it worth the time?’ http://xkcd.com/1205/
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/).
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/).
