Look Up!

By Royal Observatory GreenwichScience

Look Up! episodes

July 31, 2020 Look Up! August 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the recent launches of new spacecraft to Mars and explores the history of Mars exploration. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!
29 min
June 30, 2020 Look Up! July 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the discovery of either the heaviest known neutron star or the lightest blackhole - an object found in the mass gap of stellar remnants. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!
27 min
May 28, 2020 Look Up! June 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the cosmic 'chicken or the egg' question of which came first - galaxies or the supermassive black holes that lie at their hearts? We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!
25 min
April 29, 2020 Look Up! May 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the age old question of where did life first begin on Earth? We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!
26 min
March 30, 2020 Look Up! April 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the longstanding question of how the Earth got its Moon. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!
24 min
February 26, 2020 Look Up! March 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the end of the Spitzer Space Telescope mission and Patricia talks about the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' image and Carl Sagan. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!
38 min
January 29, 2020 Look Up February 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Patricia discusses the dimming of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and Dhara talks about how our Solar System may have got its Great Divide. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!
31 min
January 02, 2020 Look Up! January 2020
Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Patricia discusses the fizzing lakes of Saturn's largest moon Titan and Dhara talks about a recently discovered ultra-massive black hole. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!
36 min
November 28, 2019 Look Up! December 2019
Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Dhara reveals that when it comes to a galaxies spin direction, size does matter and Patricia explores how the detection of liquid water from Jupiter's moon Europa has scientists very excited.
We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!
41 min
November 01, 2019 Look Up! November 2019
Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast.
On this month's podcast, Greg takes us through the insights into planet formation provided by our most powerful submillimetre telescope, ALMA, and Patricia asks the question "Why was our first close-up image of the red planet's surface coloured in with pastels?". Plus this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary!
Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story!
36 min