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The Discussion: Paul has snubbed the show to do astronomy on TV so we’re keeping our spirits up with tales of AstroCamp and the inspirational Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency. Jeni updates us with the progress of her PhD and invites you all along to her Q&A session at Cardiff Book Talk on 22nd October, before Ralph runs through listeners’ emails
The News: With 3 minutes to round up the astronomy news stories you might have missed, we overshoot the time constraints by about 70%:
Jeni:
Ralph:
The Sky Guide: Jeni and Ralph take you through their picks of the night sky in October:
Ralph covers our solar system:
Jeni takes a look into the deep sky:
The main event:
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 look at distance metrics:
Which point in other galaxies do astronomers measure galactic distances to, the galactic core or the edge? From Steve Brown in Yorkshire
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The Discussion: Paul has snubbed the show to do astronomy on TV so we’re keeping our spirits up with tales of AstroCamp and the inspirational Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency. Jeni updates us with the progress of her PhD and invites you all along to her Q&A session at Cardiff Book Talk on 22nd October, before Ralph runs through listeners’ emails
The News: With 3 minutes to round up the astronomy news stories you might have missed, we overshoot the time constraints by about 70%:
Jeni:
Ralph:
The Sky Guide: Jeni and Ralph take you through their picks of the night sky in October:
Ralph covers our solar system:
Jeni takes a look into the deep sky:
The main event:
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 look at distance metrics:
Which point in other galaxies do astronomers measure galactic distances to, the galactic core or the edge? From Steve Brown in Yorkshire
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