Cheap Astronomy Podcasts

120. More awesome Space Shuttle missions - 14 July 2011 14.07.2011 ↓

A bit of reminiscing as the last Space Shuttle mission is underway.

119. The dark side - 30 June 2011 30.06.2011 ↓

The whole idea of the term 'dark' is that we don't know what we are talking about. So how about we stop sounding like we do?

118. Wavelengths 2of2 The long and the short of it - 27 June 2011 27.06.2011 ↓

A quick summary of what can be observed - even though we can only see a tiny bit of it.

117. Wavelengths 1of2 More than meets the eye - 23 June 2011 23.06.2011 ↓

If you are convinced that seeing is believing, astronomy may not be the science for you.

116. AWAT - Dark statistics - 9 June 2011 09.06.2011 ↓

Could there be even more dark stuff? Well, probably not.

115. Spot that planet - 2 June 2011 02.06.2011 ↓

Here's an endeavour to reassure us that we are actually living in the 21st century.

114. The Moon does not spin on its axis - 19 May 2011 19.05.2011 ↓

Heresy and controversy on the cheap.

113. Private space - 5 May 2011 05.05.2011 ↓

It's about time we outsourced.

112. Our inferred universe - 28 April 2011 28.04.2011 ↓

Mind you, we are pretty sure it exists.

111. AWAT - Brown dwarfs are magnetic too - 21 April 2011 21.04.2011 ↓

It's the little ones you should watch out for.

110. Testing Einstein - 7 April 2011 07.04.2011 ↓

It takes astronomy to really test Einstein.

109. Arms around the galaxy - 17 March 2011 17.03.2011 ↓

If it wasn't for ice skaters pulling their arms in, astronomers would really struggle with this.

108. Carnival of space #187 - 10 March 2011 10.03.2011 ↓

A podcast where other people write the script. Yay.

107. Situation cloudy - 3 March 2011 03.03.2011 ↓

You don't always need a telescope to find an astronomical conundrum.

106. Forbidden planets - 24 February 2011 24.02.2011 ↓

Exo no no.

105. AWAT - Time freeze - 17 February 2011 17.02.2011 ↓

Can you really make time stand still? Nnnnnnn....

104. Alien biology 2of2 - The case for carbon - 3 February 2011 03.02.2011 ↓

If we ever meet anything we can shake hands with, it will probably be carbon-based.

103. Alien biology 1of2 - The case for water - 27 January 2011 27.01.2011 ↓

Life? Just add water.

102. Superluminal motion - 20 January 2011 20.01.2011 ↓

Kind of, sort of, but not really faster than light.

101. Untangling the entanglement - 8 January 2011 08.01.2011 ↓

Is all this indeterminant killing of cats really necessary?

100. Episode 100 - 30 December 2010 30.12.2010 ↓

We might be cheap, but we are persistent.

99. Black holes 2of2 - The supermassive ones - 16 December 2010 16.12.2010 ↓

Lots of galaxies have SMBHs at their centres. Coincidence?

98. Black holes 1of2 - Everyones favorite physics problem - 9 December 2010 09.12.2010 ↓

You can say any old todge about what's inside a black hole - and no-one can prove you wrong. OK then.

97. 21st century thinking - 2 December 2010 02.12.2010 ↓

A kind of decadal survey - done on the cheap of course.

96. The origin of the oceans - 25 November 2010 25.11.2010 ↓

Surfs up.