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All things Space – news, travel, discoveries, the mysteries, and more…with world renown and respected Astronomer at Large Professor Fred Watson and Sci-Fi Author, Broadcaster/Journalist Andrew Dunkley.

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Sagittarius A - Imaged At Last

05.19.2022

Space Nuts Episode 305 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Breaking news – UAP senate inquiry underway…•At long last they’ve imaged Sagittarius A - the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Much excitement ensued…Fred has details and ...

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05.19.2022 Sagittarius A - Imaged At Last Space Nuts Episode 305 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Breaking news – UAP senate inquiry underway…•At long last they’ve imaged Sagittarius A - the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Much excitement ensued…Fred has details and ...
05.12.2022 Beware The Black Widow Binary Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 304 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •The Black Widow Binary•An exciting new citizen science project…and how you can be involved….for more information visit https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ellenjj/rosetta-zoo •Listener questions – A listener from the ...
05.05.2022 Saluting SOFIA Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 303 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •The James Webb Telescope is in the news again and we have an update. It’s all good news…•We offer up a salute to SOFIA with ...
04.28.2022 Mars Quakes •The biggest Mars-quakes ever recorded. So, what does this tell us about the red planet? Fred explains…•More from mars -the Perseverance Rover recorded an eclipse as it happened. More valuable data was gathered as a result.•The winds of Mars…what effect ...
04.21.2022 Weird Neptune Space Nuts 301 Show NotesApril 21, 2022Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 301 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •He couldn’t make it for Episode 300 (prior engagements) but he’s snuck in for 301. Say hello to our ...
04.14.2022 300 - A Celebration Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 300 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •An interview with Andrew and Fred conducted by Marnie Ogg, host of Dark Sky Conversations podcast (you really should subscribe) and Fred’s partner in life.•Bloopers ...
04.07.2022 Born In A Very Different Way Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 299 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •An unusual planet formation discovery – a planet that’s born in a very different way. Fred explains.•A spacecraft that’s going to be built of Lego…sort ...
03.31.2022 Exoplanet Atmospheres - What We're Looking For Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 298 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •What should we be looking for in the atmosphere of Exoplanets to see if they support life or not? Fred explains.•The speed of sound on ...
03.24.2022 Grand Opening Space Nuts Episode 297 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Finally, some of the Apollo samples brought back to Earth 50 yrs ago have been opened. But why now? Fred explains the significance…•A black hole merger…finally we may have ...
03.17.2022 An 'Out Of This World' Discovery Space Nuts Episode 296 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •‘An Out of This World Discovery’ – three groups of exo-planets have been discovered forming around a binary star. Fred explains…•A US astronaut is about to hitch a ride ...
03.10.2022 Solar Coronal Loops Space Nuts 295 Show NotesMarch 10, 2022Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 295 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Coronal Plasma Loops…new research suggests they aren’t real, they don’t exist. So, what’s the story? Fred explains…•The discovery of ...
03.03.2022 Asteroids Space Nuts Episode 294 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Asteroids – One that hit China some 50,000 years ago. So why are we talking about it today? Fred has the answers.•Plus a potential asteroid strike on planet earth ...
02.24.2022 It's Raining Gems Space Nuts 293 Show NotesFebruary 24, 2022Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 293 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •An exoplanet discovered with unusual rain…gemstones.•A James Webb Telescope update.•A quadruple asteroid system has been discovered by a group ...
02.17.2022 About that Coronal Mass Ejection Event Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 292 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •A Coronal mass ejection event has destroyed a bunch of Starlink satellites. So how does that happen? Fred explains.•Andrew’s been on short holiday, so what ...
02.10.2022 Our Trojan Asteroid Friend Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 290 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Planet Earth has picked up a trojan asteroid as our newest companion. Fred has the details.•We revisit Oumuamua (or the Space Doogie as Andrew fondly ...
02.03.2022 Another Round of Listener Questions Space Nuts Episode 290 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Our listeners take over the show with questions from around the globe. Fred has answers for all of them.NEW: The Space Nuts Premium edition is now available on Spotify ...
01.27.2022 Asteroids of Mars Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 289 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Asteroids that collide with Mars. There’s a new study and we have the results.•Another study, this one into the rotation of stars…and it promises to ...
01.20.2022 Moon Mysteries Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 288 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •The Moon’s Magnetic Field mystery...what’s the go? Fred has the details…•A gigantic exo-planet discovery has scientists excited.•A tip from a listener – the search is ...
01.13.2022 Cyclones of Jupiter New: If you find value in Andrew & Fred’s work, you might like to consider buying them a coffee. They’d really appreciate the break. Thank you… https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spacenuts Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 287 with Professor Fred Watson & ...
01.06.2022 Solving the Case of the Mysterious Dimming Star New: If you find value in Andrew & Fred’s work, you might like to consider buying them a coffee. They’d really appreciate the break. Thank you… https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spacenuts Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 286 with Professor Fred Watson & ...
12.30.2021 Comet Mystery - Solved Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 285 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Mystery solved – Why do comets have green heads but not green tails? Fred explains…•Confirmation – a magnetic field been detected on an exo planet ...
12.23.2021 Dark Matter - A New Theory \| Space Nuts 284 Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 284 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •A new theory involving Dark Matter – does this finally answer the question as to what Dark Matter is?•Launching the James Webb Telescope – an ...
12.16.2021 Einstein Challenged Space Nuts 282 Show NotesDecember 16, 2021New: If you find value in Andrew & Fred’s work, you might like to consider buying them a coffee. They’d really appreciate the break. Thank you… https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spacenuts Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode ...
12.09.2021 GJ367B \| Planet in a Hurry Space Nuts 282 Show NotesDecember 9, 2021New: If you find value in Andrew & Fred’s work, you might like to consider buying them a coffee. They’d really appreciate the break. Thank you… https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spacenuts Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode ...
12.02.2021 Sun & Water New: If you find value in Andrew & Fred’s work, you might like to consider buying them a coffee. They’d really appreciate the break. Thank you… https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spacenuts Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 281 with Professor Fred Watson & ...
11.25.2021 Q&A's - Space Nuts 280 For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ New: Listen to Space Nuts on your favorite app: https://link.chtbl.com/NAwvL_XP Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 280 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley An episode where too many listener ...
11.18.2021 Rusty's Moon For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ New: Listen to Space Nuts on your favorite app: https://link.chtbl.com/NAwvL_XP Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 279 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●About that Russian missile test that ...
11.11.2021 Gravitational Waves - Big News For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 278 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Gravitational Wave Detection – Some big news...Fred has details and inside story.●Problems with the SpaceX capsule ...
11.04.2021 Happy Birthday! Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 277 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Happy Birthday Parkes Radio Telescope – 60 yrs. is quite an achievement.●The benefits of putting a telescope past Saturn.●This week’s listener questions kick off with ...
10.28.2021 Space Warp Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 276 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●It’s a big time for Fred…he explains●The discovery of new exo-planet….but this one’s not in our galaxy….Fred has details and why this discovery is important.●That ...
10.21.2021 Audience Questions Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 275 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Another questions, questions, questions episode.●Today we have questions about gravitational waves, red shift, ramjet travel and more.●Plus…a fascinating question asking Fred what his personal highlights ...
10.14.2021 Younger Than Expected A podcast about Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 274 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●The age of Moon Rocks – the Chang’e 5 findings.●Mysterious radio signals have been discovered coming from distant stars. So what are ...
10.07.2021 In A Galaxy Far Far Away Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 273 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Beat that Star Wars, the discovery of a planet in galaxy far far way that orbits three stars.●BepiColombo has been sending back some pretty spectacular ...
09.30.2021 The Legend of Sodom Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 272 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●How the Biblical story of Sodom may have been inspired by an astronomical catastrophe●The giant red spot on Jupiter – is it speeding up?●Listener questions…we ...
09.23.2021 Evidence of Dark Energy? Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 271 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Has the University of Cambridge accidentally stumbled across evidence of Dark Energy? Maybe.●A 2200 year old observatory that’s been discovered in Peru…and it still works!●Listener ...
09.16.2021 Questions, Questions, Questions... Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 270 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●The one where too many audience questions is never enough. The whole show is devoted to them…including one very clever submission. As usual, no question ...
09.09.2021 Success on Mars Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 269 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Success on Mars…●Also on Mars, Ingenuity’s life has been extended…●A new method for investigating the atmosphere of other planets..●Brown Dwarf stars…are there more of them ...
09.02.2021 Galactic Pollution on a Massive Scale Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 268 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●How star making galaxies cause galactic pollution on a massive scale…●Stars that are eating their own planets…as a consequence, there are probably less Earth like ...
08.26.2021 Fast, Very Fast! Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 267 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●The fastest orbiting asteroid ever seen…●A space launch from Australia that only cost a few hundred dollars. So how did they do it and what ...
08.19.2021 Measuring the Mass of a Super Black Hole Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 266 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●A new way to measure the mass of a supermassive black hole.●A delay to the NASA Moon mission. And the launch of Boeing’s Starliner.●The Mars ...
08.12.2021 Spreading the Goo Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 265 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Time to tackle your questions again. From around the globe, our listeners have the darndest questions.●Everything from life to quantum fluctuations, Satellite visibility and the ...
08.05.2021 About That Incident with the ISS Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 264 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●All about that dramatic incident on the International Space Station.●The search for the origin of the asteroid that finished off the dinosaurs. Fred has the ...
07.29.2021 A Warning From NASA Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 263 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●A warning from NASA – the moon could lift our high tide levels in the near future. ●The latest on Mars Quakes and the core ...
07.22.2021 Plasma Jet Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 262 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●A quick discussion about the successful launch of Jeff Bezos into space…●Astronomers have obtained detailed images of a plasma jet from a supermassive black hole. ...
07.15.2021 One Big Ancient Star Explosion Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 261 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●News from Andrew for Space Nuts fans as the podcast’s universe expands●An ancient star explosion that appears to be more powerful than any supernova we’ve ...
07.08.2021 The Race Is On Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 260 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●The race is on…who will get into Space first, Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson?●Water on Mars. Are there lakes under the South Pole? Latest findings ...
07.01.2021 Good News For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 259 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Some good news about the Square Kilometer Array. Fred has the details.●The Pentagon’s official report into ...
06.24.2021 Venus - Geologically Active? For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQAstronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 258 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●Venus – Geologically active?●A new discovery about the colossal galaxy cluster rotation. What? Fred has details...●The latest ...
06.17.2021 Asteroid 16 Psyche - Not What We Thought For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 257 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●The Chinese Mars mission update…including discussion on that selfie…● Asteroid 16 Psyche may not be what ...
06.11.2021 The One About MAVIS For more Space Nuts, visit our websites. Links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 256 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley ●MAVIS - a planned observatory more powerful than Hubble. Fred has the details of this exciting ...

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Space Nuts episodes:

Sagittarius A - Imaged At Last

Beware The Black Widow Binary

Saluting SOFIA

Mars Quakes

Weird Neptune

300 - A Celebration

Born In A Very Different Way

Exoplanet Atmospheres - What We're Looking For

Grand Opening

An 'Out Of This World' Discovery

Solar Coronal Loops

Asteroids

It's Raining Gems

About that Coronal Mass Ejection Event

Our Trojan Asteroid Friend

Another Round of Listener Questions

Asteroids of Mars

Moon Mysteries

Cyclones of Jupiter

Solving the Case of the Mysterious Dimming Star

Comet Mystery - Solved

Dark Matter - A New Theory | Space Nuts 284

Einstein Challenged

GJ367B | Planet in a Hurry

Sun & Water

Q&A's - Space Nuts 280

Rusty's Moon

Gravitational Waves - Big News

Happy Birthday!

Space Warp

Audience Questions

Younger Than Expected

In A Galaxy Far Far Away

The Legend of Sodom

Evidence of Dark Energy?

Questions, Questions, Questions...

Success on Mars

Galactic Pollution on a Massive Scale

Fast, Very Fast!

Measuring the Mass of a Super Black Hole

Spreading the Goo

About That Incident with the ISS

A Warning From NASA

Plasma Jet

One Big Ancient Star Explosion

The Race Is On

Good News

Venus - Geologically Active?

Asteroid 16 Psyche - Not What We Thought

The One About MAVIS