Star Diary

By BBC Sky at Night MagazineScience Astronomy

Star Diary episodes

April 20, 2018 Sifting through Mars's sediment with a planetary geologist
We speak to sedimentary geologist and Curiosity mission co-investigator Prof Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London.
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31 min
March 29, 2018 Bowie, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
In this first episode of an all-new, sparkly format for Radio Astronomy we look at our favourite bits of BBC Sky at Night Magazine’s April 18 issue and speak to Dr Alan Penny, vice-president of METI International. Clear skies!
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22 min
December 20, 2017 Christmas Special: Tales from 2017
What does David Bowie’s Space Oddity have to do with SpaceX, should we go back to the Moon or straight to Mars, and what is multi-messenger astrophysics anyway? All these questions and more are answered in our 2017 retrospective, in which we also talk Cassini, Voyager, exoplanets and Laika the dog.
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1 hr 19 min
October 19, 2017 International Astronomy Show 2017 Special
We report from the International Astronomy Show 2017 in Warwickshire, UK, and get the chance to talk to some of the speakers at the event, including The Sky at Night's Chris Lintott.
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43 min
August 21, 2017 Radio Astronomy Shorts - Episode 1: Dava Sobel
Iain Todd speaks to US science author Dava Sobel, host of Stargazing, a new astronomy show on the BBC World Service. She discusses the story behind the show, the legacy of Copernicus and this month’s total solar eclipse over the US.
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18 min
July 21, 2017 Radio Astronomy: Bluedot Festival 2017 Special
Recorded live at Jodrell Bank Observatory, we bring you interviews with six of the speakers at 2017’s Bluedot Festival. In this episode: Antarctic meteorite hunting, a new CERN particle, Voyager’s legacy, the latest on ESA’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury
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1 hr 11 min
December 23, 2016 Episode 6: The 2016 retrospective
This month: Fresh insights from the Beagle 2 Mars lander, a special end-of-year News Bingo, and how you can get to know the constellation of Orion a bit better.
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35 min
November 08, 2016 Episode 5: So long, Schiaparelli
This month: Rosetta’s mission end and newly-discovered exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. The Sky at Night’s Pete Lawrence looks at lunar occultations and Ezzy hears from Cardiff University’s Dr Annabel Cartwright about whether life may have begun on Venus.
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49 min
September 26, 2016 Episode 4: Farewell Rosetta
This month: Rosetta’s mission end and newly-discovered exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. The Sky at Night’s Pete Lawrence looks at lunar occultations and Ezzy hears from Cardiff University’s Dr Annabel Cartwright about whether life may have begun on Venus.
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53 min
August 09, 2016 Radio Astronomy, Episode 3: Juno at Jupiter
This month: The latest on the new mission to Jupiter, tips for observing the famous Perseid meteor shower, and how research in Antarctica could take us to Mars
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41 min