Star Diary

By BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The weekly astronomy podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.... more

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The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.

Star Diary episodes:

November 20, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 21 to 27 November 2022
In this week's stargazing guide, we take advantage of the new Moon for some deep-sky astronomy.
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November 13, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 14 to 20 November 2022
The Leonid meteor shower returns and the moon Callisto brushes past Jupiter in this week's stargazing guide.
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17min
November 07, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 7 to 13 November 2022
The Moon glides past Uranus, the Pleiades and Castor & Pollux in this week's stargazing guide.
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15min
November 04, 2022 Amazing cosmic facts
Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder reveals some of the most mind-blowing facts about the universe, including why the Milky Way smells of raspberries, how the Moon has a whiff of gunpowder, what happens when galaxies collide and why our own galaxy is flatter than a credit card.
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46min
October 30, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 31 October to 6 November2022
In this week's stargazing guide: catch Saturn, Vesta and the Moon together, watch out for Jupiter on Bonfire Night.
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16min
October 27, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 24 to 30 October 2022
A partial solar eclipse and a Mars going into retrograde in this weekly stargazing guide.
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13min
October 23, 2022 Piecing together the history of the Universe
How much do astronomers know about the evolution of the cosmos? Prof Nial Tanvir from the University of Leicester talks about the early Universe, the formation of the first stars and galaxies, redshift and gamma-ray bursts.

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28min
October 20, 2022 Webb Telescope and the secrets of the Solar System
We spoke to University of Leicester planetary scientist Prof Leigh Fletcher about the James Webb Space Telescope, why it observes in infrared, what it has revealed about the planets of the Solar System so far, and what's yet to come.

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26min
October 16, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 17 to 23 October 2022
The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week, and Mercury passes by the binary star Porrima in our weekly stargazing guide.
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October 09, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 10 to 16 October 2022
Watch out for Mars and the Pleiades as the Moon passes by as we run down this week's stargazing highlights.
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How many episodes does Star Diary have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.

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