Most of you radio listeners will have heard that the cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking died on 14th March, which happens to be the day Einstein was born, and is International Pi Day. Not as in meat pie, but the number Pi, since the date in American is 3.14, the value of Pi. This is all entirely appropriate.

Looking Up - 16 March 2018

Explore the big and the small questions in astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Hosted by Kechil Kirkham, no subject is too big or too small, and experts are regularly brought on board to illuminate and excite. Cape Town is the place to be for astronomy, with some of the largest telescopes in the world housed or being built not too far away. Looking Up takes advantage of the shoals of scientists and engineers working on the planet’s most advanced astronomy projects, who live and work right here in the Mother City. Kechil has recently acquired an MPhil in Space Studies at the University of Cape Town, and works in South Africa’s space industry on the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.

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Looking Up - 16 March 2018

Looking Up - 16 March 2018