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XRISM and Matter's Final Screams

This month Edward and Chris talk the recent lunar missions - Astrobotic's Peregrine and Japan's...

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2023 Review and 2024 look-ahead

Chris North and Edward Gomez review some stories from 2023, with asteroid missions, lunar rovers...

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The "What the Heck" Particle

Chris and Edward discuss the announcement of the detection of a highly energetic cosmic ray,...

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Planet Bashing and Dipsticks of the Universe

Recorded in late October, Chris and Edward discuss recent proposals for an all-British mission to...

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Life, but not as we know it?

Chris and Edward discuss some recent stories, such as tantalising possible (emphasis on the...

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National Astronomy Meeting - part 2

Dr Ian Harrisonreports from the National Astronomy meeting, which we held in Cardiff back in...

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Nam 2023

July marked the UK's annual National Astronomy Meeting, which this year took place in Cardiff....

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Tidal Transients

In 2020 astronomers spotted an object slowly getting brighter, but it wasn't until 2021 tha they...

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From exploding rockets to burping galaxies

A news roundup of the last couple of months with Chris North and Edward Gomez. With a few...

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Black Holes: Saviours of the Universe?

In terms of what might be called “pure science”, there’s one topic that tends to get people...

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Staring at the Dawn of Time - part 2

In the last month there was a show of the Northern Lights - or aurora - visible from the UK. If...

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Staring at the Dawn of Time - part 1

Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss the first attempt to launch a rocket from UK soil, albeit...

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Happy Birthday JWST

The 25th December marks an anniversary in the world of astronomy (as well as Sir Isaac Newton's...

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The Future of Space Exploration

With the Artemis I mission mid-mission (at the time of recording), Chris North and Edward Gomez...

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On board with DART

At the end of September, NASA's DART mission was deliberately crashed into the asteroid...

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Gravitational Field Trip - part 2

This is the second part of a gravitational field trip to the LIGO Hanford Observatory in...

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Gravitational Field Trip part 1

This month, we go on a field trip to the LIGO Hanford Observatory, one of a number of detectors...

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Amateur Advances

Amateur astronomers regularly make important contributions to astronomy research. That can be...

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Space Environmentalism

In the 65 years since Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, the number of artificial satellites in...

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Routine Spaceflight?

It's not often that a new astronomical phenomenon is named, but this month we have a new one. The...

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