Today on #365DaysOfAstro, @AwesomeAstroPod talk to Dr Becky on how to grow a supermassive black hole – and it’s not as easy as you think! Always picture a black hole as a gigantic hoover, sucking up everything that dares to stray too close? Think again…
This month @AwesomeAstroPod have stories ESA new space telescope, Chandrayaan-3, and skyguide for your August observation.
A look back at the greatest distance any human has ever been from Earth!From spacewalks to moon landings, how far have humans ever travelled? And what about space probes?More with @AwesomeAstroPod at #365DaysOfAstro
It’s a summer vacation special with Jeni in the mountains of South America astronomising at altitude and visiting the Vera C Rubin telescope as well as obstech. We have an interview with a Vera Rubin Observatory astronomer as well as a skyguide and an astronomy news round up.
@AwesomeAstroPOd chat to Dr Kathy Thornton, nuclear physicist turned NASA astronaut who went on to fly on four Space Shuttle missions about her life as an astronaut, the Hubble fix and that fateful day in mission-control on Columbia’s last re-entry.
The biggest question of them all…why the Universe exists? Find the answers along with other questions on today’s @AwesomeAstroPod at #365DaysOfAstro
Time for June @AwesomeAstroPod as Jenny & Paul discuss about the recent supernova in galaxy M101, volcanic exoplanets, and also June Skyguide!
Taking a look at how over the last 40 years we went from only knowing of the handful of planets in our solar system to knowing of around 5,000 planets littering the galaxy.
To mark the Skylab 50th anniversary here is @AwesomeAstroPod chat from 2012 where we caught up with Skylab 3 and STS-3 astronaut, Jack Lousma
Today @AwesomeAstroPod look at what makes the moon shine, why the moon looks different every night and how objects from dust and asteroids to stars and galaxies either reflect or emit their own light.