Look Up!

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the discovery of phosphine on Venus - a potential sign of life and gets a chance to speak to Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder who is one of the researchers involved in the study! We also have this month's viewing hi...

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about a proposed explanation for the dimming of the star Betelgeuse that was observed in late 2019 and into early 2020. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGA...

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the recent launches of new spacecraft to Mars and explores the history of Mars exploration. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part...

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the discovery of either the heaviest known neutron star or the lightest blackhole - an object found in the mass gap of stellar remnants. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join u...

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the cosmic 'chicken or the egg' question of which came first - galaxies or the supermassive black holes that lie at their hearts? We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Tw...

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the age old question of where did life first begin on Earth? We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the mo...

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the longstanding question of how the Earth got its Moon. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the mont...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the end of the Spitzer Space Telescope mission and Patricia talks about the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' image and Carl Sagan. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Patricia discusses the dimming of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and Dhara talks about how our Solar System may have got its Great Divide. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Patricia discusses the fizzing lakes of Saturn's largest moon Titan and Dhara talks about a recently discovered ultra-massive black hole. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara reveals that when it comes to a galaxies spin direction, size does matter and Patricia explores how the detection of liquid water from Jupiter's moon Europa has scientists very excited. We also have this...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Greg takes us through the insights into planet formation provided by our most powerful submillimetre telescope, ALMA, and Patricia asks the question "Why was our first close-up image of the red planet's surface...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Accompanying a round-up of this month's astronomical highlights, Patricia discusses crashes in space as we consider the history and the danger of asteroid impacts on our world and others, while Greg brings us the news of a habitable zone...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this month's podcast, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune with a recap of the Voyager missions history and a look forward to its future, and we discuss a star almost devoid of iron, showing key signs of...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, healing serious injuries in space may become much easier soon as Patricia lets us know about 3D bioprinting, and things get theoretical with Greg as he talks about the concept of dark stars, some of the biggest and brightest sta...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, Patricia answers the question "What does Charlie Brown have to do with the Guinness World Record for fastest speed of a human?" as we continue our build up to the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings! Meanwhile Greg looks to th...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, a look back to the tragic story of Apollo 1 as Patricia explains Northrop Grumman's recent dedication of its Cygnus spacecraft to astronaut Roger Chaffee, while Greg looks at much longer journeys as he talks about hypervelocity...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this edition of Look Up!, we take a look at the legacy of the little rover that could, NASA's Opportunity rover, and a story of the one of the longest round trips a rock could make, as Big Bertha, a rock collected from the surface of th...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month on Look Up!, Greg discusses news of the Moon, with the recent Chang'e 4 mission and a look at meteoroid impacts on the Moon during the recent lunar eclipse, while Patricia tells us about exciting citizen science, the discover...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Bringing in the New Year, we have two new stories from the world of Astronomy! Greg talks to us about the ongoing hunt for Dark Matter and how some of the faintest light in the sky may be the key to its understanding, while new Royal Obs...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this festive season, as relatives gather for all kinds of celebrations, we look at two families in the cosmos! Dhara gives us an overview of the our current missions on Mars, our own robotic family: those ending, those still going and t...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month find out how lucky we are to be around a relatively quiet star as Greg discusses how flaring red dwarf stars might spell doom for planets around them and Dhara looks into the giants of the Universe, supermassive black holes; onl...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month it's an exoplanet double bill, with Dhara giving us an update on the habitability of Proxima Centauri b, a world around our nearest neighbouring star, and Greg tells us about the brand new planet-hunter TESS which has already fou...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this episode, Greg tells us about the recent launch of the NASA Parker Solar Probe, soon to be the fastest object ever made by humans, and Dhara helps us celebrate the 15th birthday of the hugely successful Spitzer space telescope with...

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, Dhara tells us about the discovery of 12 new moons of Jupiter bringing the total up to 79, while Greg talks about only the third time in history that a cosmic neutrino has been traced back to its source. Take a guess at what that...