Podcast Episodes

[Space Bites] Vera Rubin's ONLINE // Huge LISA Update // Record-Breaking JWST Exoplanet

The first pictures from Rubin are finally here, construction begins on the LISA mission, Webb directly images a Saturn-sized exoplanet, and do pulsar…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Q&A] SMBH Images, Primordial Gravitational Waves, Terraforming Tidally-Locked Planets

Does terraforming a tidally-locked planet make any sense? Are the images we got of our galaxy's supermassive black hole fake? Can we observe gravitat…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Q&A] JWST Image Artefacts, TRAPPIST-1 Planets from the Surface, Liquid Glass Space Telescopes

Why doesn't NASA remove the artefacts from JWST images? How would TRAPPIST-1 planets look from their surface? Why don't they just form space telescop…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Interview] Improving Nuclear Power Generators for Future Space Missions

Solar power has its limits. Some space missions will need an alternative source of power like RTGs. How can we make them better? Which fuel is optima…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Space Bites] Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light

A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mot…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Q&A] Seeing the Oort Cloud, Rogue Planet Nearby, Knocking the Moon Away

Can a giant asteroid knock the Moon from its orbit? How good does a telescope need to be to see the Oort cloud? What are the odds of a rogue planet h…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Bonus] No Aliens?! Space Journalist Fraser Cain on Astronomy, Space Discoveries, Sci-Fi

This is an interview with me for the Worldviews Podcast.

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1 year, 3 months ago

[Interview] Planning a Mission to Uranus

We never came back to Uranus after the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986. It's time to come back. But what will it take to organise a mission to Uranus? What p…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Bonus] The Challenge/Promise of AI & Science Communication 🧠📢

This is an interview with me done by Salman Hameed @ Kainaat Astronomy in English.

Salman Hameed has a PhD in astronomy and is Charles Taylor Chair an…

1 year, 3 months ago

[Space Bites] Sun’s Pole Revealed // Sun Shade vs Climate Change // Source of Cosmic Rays

Have we finally found the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays? Our first look at the Sun’s south pole, New Glenn slips again, what kind of damage…

1 year, 3 months ago