AWESOME ASTRONOMY

The Discussion : Techniquest in Cardiff Bay Our Good friend Dylan O'Donnell at Star Stuff A listener's email on the naming of spacecraft, prompting a debate on history, cultures and tearing down statues.   The News : Britain's ambitious spaceports hit regulatory purgatory China's plans for this year include space station completion, comet and asteroid missions Unknown heroines of space & astronomy...

The Discussion : AstroCamp returns for listeners to observe with us 2-5th April. Book tickets here . Listeners' emails on: A Venus sample return mission Why our website is so poor L     The News : A very big far away star with a very big planet Unpicking the riddle of where the matter is that makes up all the stars Another of Saturn moons may be hiding an ocean Why there are no newly formed stars...

The Discussion : Astronomy in Lego Jeni on the BBC Listeners emails on space traffic control and the Chinese space programme     The News : SpaceX's troubled start to 2022 New York Times reports sexual harassment at SpaceX International Space Station operations extended to 2030 A look at Arianespace The news discussion: JWST     Nebulas : A look at the weird and wonderful nebulae that you can see...

The Discussion : Astronomy Christmas presents Listener's email about the value of early human space endeavours Listener's email about the marvelousness of Musk   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in October, we have: The largest valley in the solar system (on Mars) is packed with water More evidence to suggest there may be living organisms in Venus' atmosphere The sharpest images yet of th...

We defer our usual Xmas frivolity to go to NASA's coverage of Elon Musk's Penetrating Explorer Neo Insertion System rocket delivering NASA's Advanced Solar System probe to Uranus and look back at the astronomy and space exploration highlights of 2021: The first detection of an exoplanet in another galaxy, the first exomoon and the most abundant stars perhaps being habitable hosts A great alignment...

The Discussion : Jen becomes the Managing Editor of the Sky Guide app and talks hazardous asteroids on BBC1's Breakfast show Observing Comet Leonard Listeners emails on colonising the galaxy and killing Mars potatoes   The News : Recreating Mars in Antarctica Future space tourists are unlikely to be getting official astronaut wings News ways to capture space debris Elon Musk announces concerns ove...

The Discussion : Sex with aliens (sorry) Jen's reveals the secrets of TV trickery AweAst now has videos! Head over to YouTube Emails about our new YouTube channel & aliens watching us   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in October, we have: Water on exoplanets probably didn't come from comets Another 301 exoplanets drop out of old Kepler data An(other) weird signal from outer space Violent...

The Discussion : Jen as a space expert on BBC1's Breakfast show AweAst on YouTube is coming! Head over and help us out by subscribing here . An email on the less than stellar working conditions at Blue Origin   The News : The results of Astro2020 - the next decadal survey from the US National Academies of Sciences NASA's moon programme officially slips back a year SpaceX's 3rd crewed launch to the...

The Discussion : A bonanza of radio interviews Jeni's guide to the darkest and best places to stargaze in the UK A trip to the satellite company Space Forge . Emails about radio interviews and the first AweAst episodes   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in October, we have: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is speeding up Crazy exoplanets orbits Red and dead galaxies Solving the mystery of alien r...

The Discussion : Tales from a dark sky weekend Jen appearing on the Cosmic Companion and at the Open University Space Society Emails on space tourism and from a US state penitentiary The News : NASA gets ready to test an asteroid redirect mission Shatner in space Mixed fortunes in the news for Bezos & Musk The James Webb Space Telescope is still on track for a December launch The news discussion:...

The Discussion: Murder on a submarine Jeni's exoplanet talk for the Open University Space Society - available here on YouTube An email from Eastern Europe prompting a discussion on future energy harvesting     The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in October, we have: Understanding asteroids using ground based telescopes Solving The Mysterious Case of the Missing Supernova Discovering a new as...

The Discussion : Our practical astronomy gathering is back – join us in Wales on 2-5th October Jen is contributing to Andy Oppenheimer's book Stars of Orion Submit your support for Lego to create a clockwork solar system Watch Jen's free online exoplanet talk for the Open University Space Society Emails from our good friends: Casey Ash in Thailand, about the perennial issue of satellite constellat...

The Discussion : Jeni Nearly joined a cult Farewell to Carolyn Shoemaker The Room of Doom at Redditch Astronomical Society The new updated Sky Guide app (that Jen works on) Listeners' emails on how annoying we are and nebulae   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in September, we have: A new classification of habitable exoplanets Astronomers find thousands of new galaxies Red Dwarf stars mig...

This podcast extra is all about our favourite topic of them all, exoplanets. Thanks to our good friends Ian and Billy, we'll be taking a look at the very exciting upcoming low-Earth orbit space mission Twinkle. This small satellite will help us better understand the chemical composition of known exoplanets, which in turn will help us understand their history - and even their weather!   Guests : Ia...

The Discussion : Presenting on the BBC The importance of dust to astronomy   The News : A round up of current Mars exploration from Perseverance, Ingenuity, Hope & Zhurong. The mystery of the disappearing Mars rock The Boeing gremlins continue Bezos joins the billionaire space tourism club   Moons of the Solar System : Our show segment exploring the discovery, exploration and our knowledge of the...

The Discussion : Star Wars marathon Observing the ISS & the Nauka Module NAM 2021 Amateur recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism Spectrum analysing the new audio anomaly   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in August, we have: Detecting light from behind a black hole New Insights shows Mars' interior is very different to Earth's Evidence of an ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Ga...

The Discussion : Hubble's still in trouble Jeni's presenting on the BBC's Weatherman Walking Ideas for a new segment to replace the moons of the solar system   The News : Ingenuity helicopter is exceeding all expectations Russia looks to expand its real estate on the ISS NASA's Artemis 1 is being stacked for a November launch China's sending Taikonauts to the moon & Mars Bezos & Branson   Moons of...

The Discussion : Can you help out the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory? Combining sports & astronomy The hive mind responds to the new audio anomaly   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in July, we have: Hubble in trouble Incredible new images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede A glimpse of the first ever stars Cosmic twisters The biggest comet ever seen comes barreling into the solar system   The Sky...

To illustrate the epic saga of the Great Dimming of Betelgeuse, in this podcast extra, we revisit all our previous discussions of the red supergiant – collated just for you in one handy dandy place! We cover all the previous major studies of the Great Dimming event from the past year and a half, to let you relive the glorious adventure that is scientific investigation! Tune in to see how this amaz...

The Discussion : A new audio anomaly to get your investigative teeth into Jeni moving from TV interviewee to presenter on the BBC A look back at this month's solar eclipse Listeners' emails about our sound quality and night time radio propagation   The News : Blue Origin's space tourism auction New experiments launched to the ISS NASA looking for extra cash for another lunar lander 3 new missions...

The Discussion : Buying and selling astronomy kit A possible resolution to the Wiltshire Audio Anomaly   The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have: Heavy metal vapours detected around comets A weird supernova Seafloor volcanoes on Europa   The Sky Guide : This month we're taking a look at the constellation of Ophiuchus with a guide to its history, how to find it, a couple of d...

The Discussion : Farewell to Michael Collins Jeni back on the radio, other podcasts and TV - cc/crhxtz Listeners' emails   The News : Blue Origin prepares to take space tourists The launch of China's new Space Station & falling space debris Can you help the Royal Astronomical Society find the UK's moon trees? cc/rrhxtz SpaceX reaches a production/economic milestone with a 10th reuse of a Falcon 9...

The Discussion : Binocular observing Do you want Ralph's 115 triplet refractor & goto mount? The Wiltshire Audio Anomaly Listeners emails on historical images and refractor rivalry The News : Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have: An update on that life on Venus story Life around Proxima Centauri is in for a blast More data to add to the universe's expansion rate conundrum Was Oumuam...

This week we saw the first ever powered flight on another planet. So this is a podcast extra episode to mark this remarkable achievement, explain what happened and why this is such a paradigm shift for future space exploration.

The Discussion: The 'Wiltshire Audio Anomaly' 20% off the book Vera Rubin – A Life for US listeners using url: hup.harvard.edu/exhibits/HX7578 @StargazerRob's alternative astrophotographer of the year award Listeners' emails The News : April Fools research papers Commemorating 60 years since Yuri Gagarin's 1st Spaceflight An update on @NASA's Mars Ingenuity copter Rounding up @SpaceX's metal toile...