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/).
Bilbo Says Molecular
Chris is ready to go nuclear and Rob is feeling ignoble. We report on a report suggesting a report about reports about reports. Astronomy Photographer of the Year was just awarded in Greenwich and the JWST may be able to see the very first supernovae in the Universe. This and more in our self-aware 50th episode!
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Episode #50. 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:
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19637073 and http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2012-winners/
- Ignoble Awards: http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2011
- Curiosity is looking at a rock : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-295&cid=release_2012-295
- Astrochemistry in the lab : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-293
- Seeing supernova at the edge of the universe with JWST: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3457
- The Larson Scaling relation is just an observational artefact: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3346
- @radiovicky would like this explained : http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Technology/SEMLWO7YJ6H_0.html
- Wikipedia List of Fictional Medicines: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_medicines_and_drugs#section_1
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/).
