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Back to Search#47 Have you ever heard of moonquakes? Let's take a look at how different they are from earthquakes.
Season 1 Episode 47
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For a long time we speculated that there might have been earthquakes on the moon, we call them moonquakes. How did we eventually dete…
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#46 Meteorite expert Greg Brennecka returns to the podcast to talk about the Nadir crater. An exciting new discovery that could be a 66 million year old meteorite impact.
Season 1 Episode 46
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Expert meteoriticist and friend of Cosmic Coffee Time Greg Brennecka returns to talk about an exciting development in the meteorite i…
4 years, 1 month ago
#45 NASA's Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. A drone is going to fly in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Incredible!
Season 1 Episode 45
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NASA is planning to fly a drone in the atmosphere of the second largest natural satellite in the solar system, Saturn's Titan. What i…
4 years, 2 months ago
#44 About that black hole at the centre of our galaxy... Now we've got a picture! Sagittarius A*
Season 1 Episode 44
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Scientists have long held a theory that there was a black hole in the centre of our milky way galaxy. This was proved some years ago …
4 years, 3 months ago
#43 Let's take a look at Sunspots. What are those darker spots on the surface of the sun?
Season 1 Episode 43
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Sunspots are darker and cooler areas on the surface of the sun. What causes them? How long do they last? And how do they fit into the…
4 years, 4 months ago
#42 Pulsars. What are these incredible objects and what makes them pulse?
Season 1 Episode 42
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You might have heard of pulsars. They're objects that emit regular pulses of radiation. But what are they, how do they form, and what…
4 years, 5 months ago
#41 Galileo. His observations in 1610 changed a lot of what we knew about astronomy. Let's see what he found.
Season 1 Episode 41
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Galileo Galilei Made some incredible observations of the moon and was a real pioneer in calculating the height of some of the moon's …
4 years, 6 months ago
#40 Binary stars. Would you believe that most of the stars we see aren't just single stars? Incredible I know!
Season 1 Episode 40
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As many as 80% of the stars we see in the night sky could be part of a binary system, two or more stars orbiting each other.
So what i…
4 years, 7 months ago
#39 Meteorites! We meet with noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka to talk meteorites, the origins of life on Earth, and his new book 'Impact'
Season 1 Episode 39
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Until the Apollo moon landings, our only samples of material from space were in the form of meteorites. These meteorites gave us an i…
4 years, 8 months ago
#38 The amazing Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. Let's take a look at the Mars 2020 project
Season 1 Episode 38
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From Mars rovers that were the size of a microwave oven back in the 90s, we now have the Perseverance rover that's the size of a car.…
4 years, 9 months ago