Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Hi everyone, Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 21. Stories: *Update - Drilling of the so called 'Dinosaur Crater' in the Gulf Of Mexico has made some exciting discoveries. Fred has the latest. *The European Extremely Large Telescope...it has many people very excited. *Space Junk....it's a real problem...so what are we to do? Stream this and past episodes at www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly) Su...

Hi everyone, Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 20: Stories we cover include: *Building blocks of life found on 67P *Student to design experiments for ISS *Inflatable space habitats being tested Subscribe, rate and review at iTunes; audioBoom; Stitcher; Podbean; Pocketcasts or any good podcatcher app. Stream this and previous episodes via www.bitesz.com For more, follow us on Facebook and twit...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show notes for episode 19. Once again we demonstrate our fascination/love with Mars: *Mars is close...real close....to Earth (but not as close as it will be in 2018). *There's evidence that huge tsunamis may have hidden the coast of a Martian ocean *India joins the returnable space flight race Subscribe, rate and review at iTunes; audioBoom; Stitcher; Pocketcasts; Pod...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 18. Stories covered in this episode: *Hundreds of Earth like planets announced. *Earth's magnetic field is weakening...so what does it mean? *Ancient lava bubbles reveal how our atmosphere has changed. Subscribe at audioBoom; iTunes; Stitcher; Podbean; Pocketcasts or any good podcatcher app. If you like what we're doing, please leave a short rev...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes for Episode 17... *3 Earth like planets have been discovered and the space community is very excited (I was going to say have gone nuts...but that might've been a bit obvious...) *What to look for in the night sky right now. Speaking of which...have you seen Mars over the past week or so? *Weighing the worlds trees from space. You can subscribe to Spac...

Hi... Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 16 *First up..Fred has an update on the finding of the Beagle 2 Lander on Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...thought to be lost forever until recently (the Beagle 2 that is...). *We update the story we covered a couple of episodes ago on the demise of the dinosaurs. A new theory has surfaced. *And back to Mars...as we take a look at the SpaceX pl...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the show notes for Episode 15: * Another look at and update on Planet Europa...the icy moon of Jupiter. * Exoplanets - we keep finding them and we keep finding out more about them. Dr. Fred has the latest. *Rocket seeds *and running a marathon in Space. Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes; Stitcher; Pocketcasts; Podcast addict; Podbean or any good podcatcher app. You can s...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes: In episode 14 we take a look at the following stories: *Starshot - The space community has been buzzing since the announcement of a $100 million mission to explore the Alpha Centauri region using some very innovative technology indeed. * Hitomi - We revisit the recent Hitomi mission and look at just why it failed. * The Wow! signal...will we finally have a...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes: In this episode Dr. Fred and I have the following stories: * The Rosetta Probe (remember it?) is still tracking Comet 67/P and has sent back a spectacular picture of the comet. We have details... * Exploding stars...just what is their affect on planet Earth? * And we take a look at a project that's underway off the coast of Mexico, the drilling of the...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the show notes: In this episode we take a look at the huge success of the Blue Origin project and the disappearance of the Japanese Hitomi satellite project. What's happened to it? We report on what's known and the speculation. Do you know what a Protoplanetary Disc is? (I could barely say it...) According to Wikipedia : 'A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumste...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes: In this episode Fred and I tackle the hot topic of the discovery of these really massive stars...the science behind them. And why are astronomers so interested in R136? Then we move to the dwarf planet Ceres and just what are those bright spots and why are they changing? Finally...we take a look at the science behind the hit movie Gravity. Plausible o...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes: First up...the Hubble Telescope proves its worth again, this time revealing for us the most distant Galaxy ever seen. We live in a amazing times... How's this for a name...JB Brickworks...that's what he calls himself and he's built a very accurate partial solar system out of Lego.... And we get into a discussion about the merits of Daylight Saving (en...

Hi everyone...Andrew & Dr Fred here...and here's the rundown of what's in this episode... One word...Mars. First up....methane on Mars...it's there but where's it coming from? We look at the possibilities. Next up...a Mars volcano...and it's effect on the planets history. Finally...The Martian...now available via DVD and Blu-Ray..so we revisit the science of the movie. How feasible is it? Please s...

Hi Everyone...Andrew here....and here's what's in Ep.8 of Space Nuts... *Did you know we had a near miss with another asteroid recently? Near in Space terms anyway...Fred has all the details on 2013 TX68 *The recent solar eclipse...and do you realize how lucky we are to live in a time when we can see these? Fred has details.. * Plus a wrap on Scott Kelly's recent return to earth and how being in s...

Hi everyone...Andrew here... In Ep.7 of Space Nuts, Dr. Fred and I cover the following stories: * The discovery of a strange asteroid which is now known as 'The Weird Asteroid' * The launch of Virgin Galactic's new space craft - 'Unity' * Want a job with NASA? You will need to be good...very, very good...the competition is tough. All in Ep.7 of Space Nuts. Subscribe at iTunes, Stitcher, Pocketcast...

Hi everyone...Andrew here. In this episode of Space Nuts, Fred and I talk about the very large space rock that disintegrated off the coast of Brazil in early February, and was hardly reported on...yet it was one of the largest ever. Plus we take a look at the recent discovery and confirmation of Gravitational waves...and the side bet it generated. Looks like Astronomers are only human after all......

Hi everyone - Andrew here...welcome to the latest Space Nuts podcast, where Dr. Fred Watson and I discuss a fascinating discovery involving black holes, X-Rays and Radio Waves...plus we take a look at NASA's recently released space travel posters. Subscribe at itunes, stitcher, pocketcasts, audioboom...or any good podcatcher. You can find our website at http://www.bitesz.com/space-nuts.html for mo...

Hi everyone...Andrew here...welcome to the latest episode of Space Nuts...the podcast with Dr. Fred Watson from the Sydney Observatory. In this episode we pay tribute to the almost forgotten Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell who recently passed away. Plus we take an in depth look at the viability of mining asteroids in space. Just what will we find? Subscribe at iTunes, Stitcher, Pocketcasts or via the au...

Hi everyone...Andrew & Dr Fred with the latest Space Nuts podcast. In this program we take a look at the commercial operators leading the way in private space travel...and David Bowie...will he really get a constellation named after him? Subscribe at itunes, stitcher, audioBoom, Pocketcasts or most good podcast aggregators. Visit our website at http://www.bitesz.com/space-nuts.html for more. #spac...

Hi everyone...Andrew & Fred here....in this episode of Space Nuts we bring some fascinating insights to the newly discovered so called Planet 9...and just what does it have to do with the year 1846? Fred explains. Plus...a rare space discovery in Australia. Enjoy! - #space #astronomy #science #news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices  See acast.com/privacy for privacy an...

Hi everyone...here we go with our very first episode. In this one Dr. Fred and I discuss noodles, lasagna and hazel nut shells and their relationship to a very important discovery in Space science. Plus we look at the alignment of the planets....you will learn something.... Andrew #space #science #spacenuts #astronomy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices  See acast.com/pr...

Hi everyone...Andrew & Fred here...we're about to launch our brand new podcast all about Space. Such an exciting field. You can subscribe to the full podcast at iTunes (shortly(), Stitcher, audioBoom and Pocketcasts. But take a listen and find out a bit about us. Hope you can join us for our chats and share in our passion. #space #astronomy #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...