Look Up!

Look Up!

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Look Up! episodes

  • Look Up December 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
    Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the 100th anniversary of the first evidence of exoplanets and the tale of an exploding star that refuses to die. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.
    27 min
  • Look Up October 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
    Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the how the detection of Boron on Mars hints at the possibility of life on Mars in the past and the Cassini-Huygens space probe - some of the highlights from its 20 year mission. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.
    32 min
  • Look Up September 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
    Each month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the asteroid Apophis and how likely this Near-Earth object is to collide with the Earth and the launch of the first supercomputer to the International Space Station by SpaceX -
    dubbed the Spaceborne Computer. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.
    26 min
  • Look Up August 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
    Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about a surprising case of ‘indigestion’ in a supermassive black hole and how hidden stars could affect what we know about 50 already discovered exoplanets. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.
    21 min
  • Look Up July 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast.
    This month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite news stories: the Kepler telescope's great discoveries to date in its search for exoplanets and new evidence to support the Sun had a twin 4.5 billion years ago. Vote for your favourite on our Twitter poll @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools
    30 min
  • Look Up June 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
    Each month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about anti-matter and anti-gravity and the latest discoveries from the Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.
    29 min
  • Look Up May 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
    Each month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the 27th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope and five of its amazing achievements along with the discovery of hydrogen molecules spewing out from Enceladus (one of Saturn’s moons), providing more support for alien life in its sub-surface ocean. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.
    30 min
  • Look Up April 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast.
    Every month Radmila and Dhara each pick their favourite news story. Their news stories for this month include 7 potentially habitable worlds around a star called Trappist-I and a possible new stellar event called an imposter supernova – let us know your favourite! Vote via Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools
    29 min
  • Look Up March 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast.
    Each month Radmila and Dhara each pick their favourite news story. Which will be your favourite - a giant black hole in a cluster of galaxies blowing bubbles of gas and feeding itself or the possibility of finding habitable exomoons? Vote via Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools
    24 min
  • Look Up February 2017
    Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast.
    This month Radmila and Dhara each pick their favourite news story. Which will be your favourite - an explosion that is predicted to light up our sky in 2022 caused by two merging stars or the possibility of microorganisms existing on Mars including how they could be used to make Mars a habitable place for humans to live?
    23 min

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Join the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich as they discuss the night sky and recent news in the wide world of astronomy.

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