Podcaster: Ralph, Paul & Jen
Title : Awesome Astronomy’s January Episode
Organization: Awesome Astronomy
Link : www.awesomeastronomy.com
Description: We’re cheering Jeni’s graduation with a first class masters in astrophysics and looking at the PhD options she has as she chases the dream of becoming Dr Millard! Paul & Ralph make preparations for September’s dark sky AstroCamp stargazing event and educate Jeni about computers from the 1980s.
The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:
- Voyager 1 shows it still has the skills and prolongs its own life
- An update on the extrasolar asteroid that just buzzed our solar system
- Physicists observe a reversal of the arrow of time in laboratory experiments
- The European Southern Observatory image convective cells on another star
- NASA reveals its next two major planetary exploration missions
Astronomy Concept: This month we return to astronomy concepts as we delve back into the quantum world for a primer on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and why you cannot know both the position and velocity of a particle.
Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we take a look at the upcoming astronomical highlights:
What is the one thing in the world of astronomy that each of you is looking forward to in 2018? Steve Brown from Yorkshire via Twitter (@sjb_astro)
Bio: A podcast beamed direct from an underground bunker on Mars to promote science, space and astronomy (and enslave Earth if all goes well).
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