How is your cosmological coupling? What has this to do with Dark Energy? What are black holes up to? What is Cold Death and when might it occur? These and other questions may have nothing to do with your daily life, but they are fascinating. Kechil talks to Dr Chris Pearson who has the answers, or, as a true scientist, knows more of what we don't know.

Dr Chris Pearson tells Kechil about the scary Event Horizon, the point of no return when you get near a black hole. Hear it from the expert!

Black holes! What are they? How many are out there? How do we know they are there? Kechil talks to Dr Chris Pearson who was in Cape Town with the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.

There is a big meeting happening right now in Cape Town at the South African Astronomical Observatory, where engineers, technologists and scientists have flown in from the four corners. Kechil talks to Louisa Quartermaine from Perth about the Australian component of the Square Kilometre Array, the biggest telescope being built in the world, in South Africa and Australia.

There is a pretty conjunction of Venus and Jupiter you might like to take a look at in the evening or just before sunrise, if you have a clear western aspect. Kechil motors through conjunctions, alignments and other geometric features of our position in the solar system.

A reminder that the observatory has open nights on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 8pm. You need to book which you can do from their website saao.ac.za.

The Very Large Telescope and the European Space Agency's space telescopes have combined strengths and produced images of an exoplanet orbiting around a star in the constellation of Lepus. You can see this for yourself either on space.com or on the European Southern Observatory's website eso.org.

There is a pretty chain of planets to be seen after sunset at this time, if you have a clear western horizon. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has been visible in the southern hemisphere - a green blob that won't be back here, if at all, for a very very long time. And three more objects have been shot down by the US militia.

Last Sunday the US shot down a Chinese balloon which had made its way across US territory. What is special about balloons? What sort of balloon was it? Are we all living in a spy novel?

Kechil unpacks the Skittles image from the James Webb Space Telescope which she and astronomer Pamala Klassen were chatting about last week.

Pamela Kassen, an astronomer from Edinburgh, is here in Cape Town and talks to Kechil about the latest from the James Webb Space Telescope, a telescope up in space whose data she works with. Here she describes that the universe has far more galaxies than originally thought, and it is a colourful place.