Astronomy Astrophiz Podcast

Astrophiz 38: Richard Stephenson 'Talking with Spacecraft' by Brendan O'Brien: Astronomers, Astrophysicists & Space Scientists

Astrophiz 37: Robert Arrowsmith 'The 8metre Dish' For our special anniversary episode, we are re-interviewing our very first guest, Robert Arrowsmith from Melbourne, Australia, who is now leading the construction of an 8 metre radio telescope for the Astronomical Society of Victoria. Rob is one of the leaders in the Radio-Astronomy arm of the ASV and in Episode #1 he described the work being done...

Our feature interview is with Danielle DeLatte who is a PhD Student in Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Tokyo. Danielle is an aerospace engineer who has worked at NASA Goddard as part of the Satellite Servicing Projects Division working on instruments for the Canada arm on the ISS. She runs ISU Space Cafe Tokyo, a monthly public space talk in Shimokitazawa where the themes range from spac...

Our feature interview is with Dr Jean-Pierre Macquart – Senior research fellow at Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Perth, Australia. He explains new discoveries about the mysterious FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts) and his team's use of the CSIRO ASKAP array to use the latest FRB discoveries to better understand the properties of the intergalactic me...

Our feature interview is with Dr. Anthony Horton – Instrument Scientist at the AAO who tells us all about life as an Instrument Scientist for AAO and the Huntsman Telescope and the Space-Eye CubeSat telescope project. In our regular Astrophotography and observing feature, Dr Ian ‘astroblog’ Musgrave gives us the skinny on the great current conditions for observing our Gas Giants. In the News: 1. V...

Our feature interview is with Dr Elodie Thilliez. Elodie is a Data Scientist at the Deakin University Software and Technology Innovation Laboratory in Melbourne Australia, and completed her PhD at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University. Elodie tells us about her research into debris disks and the role of big data in modern astronomy. Follow Elodie on Twitter as @ET_...

Astrophiz32: Manisha Caleb Nails Fast Radio Bursts ~ Dr Ian Musgrave “What’s Up Doc?" Out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. Our special guest is PhD candidate Manisha Caleb who has just made a wonderful breakthrough by using the revamped Molongo Observatory Synthesis Telescope to bring us breakthrough knowledge about mysterious FRB’s - Fast Radio Bursts In our regular segment, we feature Dr Ian Musgra...

Astrophiz 31 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. Our feature interview is with Dr Elisabetta Barberio who explains a new Dark matter Experiment deep in a goldmine in South Eastern Australia. Elisabetta is a member of the Experimental Particle Physics Group at the University of Melbourne. Previously, she was a staff researcher at CERN, the European laboratory of Particle Physics. She was involved...

Astrophiz30: Out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. Dr Elizabeth Tasker Debunks Earth 2.0 is in the Trappist1 system, Dr Ian Musgrave “What’s Up Doc" Our feature interview is with Dr Elizabeth Tasker who gives a reality check to the claims that ‘7 earth-like planets' have been found around TRAPPIST-1, a small star about 40 light years away, and in her most recent paper, calls for a more accurate defini...

Our feature interview is with Dr Ángel López-Sánchez, who is originally from the beautiful city of Córdoba in Spain, and now with the Australian Astronomical Observatory and Department of Physics and Astronomy of Macquarie University, Sydney”. He researches galaxies with star-formation activity, and even the features of the very massive Wolf-Rayet stars are detected sometimes. He was the first Spa...

Astrophiz 28 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. Our feature interview is with Fiona Panther who is a PhD student and the Joan Duffield Scholar at the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Canberra, Australia. Fiona is using computational astrophysics and working on using peculiar supernova to try and understand how positions are created in excess in ou...

Astrophiz 27 out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. Our first feature interview after our fabulous summer break is with Dr Amanda Bauer, who has just been appointed as the new Head of Education and Public Outreach at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope which is high up in the mountains in Chile in South America. Amanda has worked at the Max Planck Institute and on the famous Sloan Digital Sky Survey an...

While we are on our summer holiday break we are reprising a few of our previous episodes. Listen as Dr Elizabeth Tasker debunks the over-hyped 'habitability' claim for Proxima Centauri b, and explains what we actually know about this nearby exoplanet. Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov explains the ‘Radio Window’ Part 11 and for Aurora Hunters she plays the sounds of Jupiter's Auroras from NASA's Juno mission....

This week over our summer break, on the heels of the sad news of Vera Rubin's passing, we reprise the segment from Episode 11 which features Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov, where she tells us about Vera Rubin’s historic discovery of Dark Matter and how she is still being denied a well-deserved Nobel Prize.

Astrophiz 24 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. Solstice Special and Cuberider Liftoff. Feature interview: We interview Solange Cunin, CEO of Cuberider, an Edutech company which has just launched 100 experiments up to the ISS via JAXA, stoking the dreams, imagination, hard work and Python coding of hundreds of Australian students and teachers from 54 schools. Congratulations! More info at cuberi...

Yay! Astrophiz 23 is out now on Soundcloud or subscribe in iTunes. Meet Asteroid Hunters Daniel Bamberger and Guy Wells. Astrophotographer Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave in ’What’s up Doc’ tells us what to look for in the night sky this week. Feature Interview: Daniel Bamberger & Guy Wells, who have set up the rapidly expanding and recognised Northolt Branch Observatory, explain how they image and ve...

Astrophiz 22 is out now on Soundcloud or subscribe in iTunes Part II: The Parkes ‘Dish’ interrogates pulsars to expose gravity waves. We interview Operations Scientist John Sarkissian at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. He explains how the ‘Spider Dipoles’ that make up the Murchison Widefield Array in remote Western Australia contribute to SKA, how Parkes chase down gravity waves and has detect...

Black Hole Investigator and Norwegian-born PhD candidate Natalia Sommer explains her novel technique of interrogating the echoes from active galactic nuclei to develop a standardisable candle to measure the distances to galaxies far far away. Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov Skypes in from Tver in Russia to tell us about Red Shift, Blue Shift and the Doppler Effect. In the News: Fast Radio Bursts and the old...

It is with profound sadness that we announce that Jack, the eldest son of Dr Ian Musgrave, has died as a result of an accident. We will not be presenting our regular podcast this week, and we do not expect Ian will be on the podcast for the foreseeable future. This week’s program is a simple tribute to Jack, in the form of my daughter Lara’s arrangement of the Led Zeppelin classic ‘Stairway to Hea...

Astrophiz 18 out now on iTunes and Soundcloud. ‘The Acceleration of the Expanding Universe’ is beautifully explained by Dr Brad Tucker. Brad is an Astrophysicist/Cosmologist, and currently a Research Fellow and PhD supervisor at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University. Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov Skypes in from Tver in Russia to te...

Astrophiz Podcast 17 is out now for Space lovers, Sciencers, Aurora Hunters, and Astrophotographers on iTunes and Soundcloud. We talk with John Sarkissian, who is the Operations Scientist at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. It’s a sensational interview celebrating 55 years of amazing observations from the iconic dish that bought the Apollo moon landings to 600 million viewers in 1969 Dr Nadezhd...

Astrophiz Podcast 16 is out now for Space lovers on iTunes and Soundcloud. At the Australian Space Science Conference we talk with Ian Whitechurch, CEO of Neumann Space, which has just secured a contract to test their solid state ion space drive on the International Space Station. Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave in 'What's Up Doc?' tells us what to look for up in the sky this week, the ‘blue’ new moon...

Glen Nagle describes how the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex listens to and sends commands to 40 spacecraft actively on missions throughout our solar system and beyond. Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave in 'What's Up Doc?' tells us what to look for up in the sky this week, auroras and astrophotography of the moon. In the news this week; 1.Successful ESA Mars Exo mission orbit insertion, TGO s...

Our feature interview is from the Australian Space Research Conference where we spoke with Dr Alina Donea from Monash University who is using maths and solar satellite data to detect sun quakes and using phase shifting can accurately predict the appearance of active regions appearing around the eastern limb of our sun as it rotates, In ‘What’s Up Doc?’ this week, Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells...

In this week’s fabulous show Dr Caroline Foster tells us about the SAMI galaxy survey using spectrographs, voids in space and how science corrects mistakes and misconceptions Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov tells us about the discovery of Rosetta’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 1969 by Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko Dr Ian (Astroblog) Musgrave features in 'What's Up Doc?' where he tells us wha...