Today Cosmic Savannah discuss with Professor Phil Diamond about the construction commencement ceremony in Australia and the future SKAO.
Oct 26th: Behind the Scenes of the SKAO with Phil Diamond
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Sep 28th: SKAO Construction Commencement Ceremony-Australia
Today Cosmic Savannah takes us on a journey to the SKA-Low site in Western Australia for the SKAO Construction Commencement Ceremony in December 2022.
Aug 24th: Pre Season Special – What’s Been Happening!
Jul 27th: Construction of the SKA Commences!
The SKA is a next-generation radio astronomy facility that will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Jun 22nd: Season 4 in Review
Today’s Cosmic Savannah chat about some of the highlights of the past year in astronomy and also some of favourite episodes of season 4.
May 25th: From Dust To Dust
We are joined by Dr. Omima Osman and discuss about cosmic dust as she explains how this dust forms in the death throes of massive stars, how it grows in interstellar space and how it’s then, in turn, destroyed again by the death of stars
Apr 27th: Our supermassive black hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy! More about it with @cosmicsavannah at #365DaysOfAstro
Feb 24th: The African Network of Women in Astronomy
This month Cosmic Savannah are joined by fours members of the board of the recently established African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA), Prof Mirjana Pović, Prof Vanessa McBride, Dr Priscilla Muheki and Prof Carolina Ödman.
Jan 27th: Space Lasers!
A powerful, naturally occurring “space laser”, called a megamaser, has been discovered with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope in a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. And today we have Professor Sarah Blyth & Dr. Marcin Glowacki to talk about it.
Dec 23rd: Head Space
Today’s @cosmicsavannah take a step back from astronomy and focus on mental health in academia and beyond. More about it with Dr Jack Radcliffe