syzygy

By Chris Stewart & Emily BrunsdenScience Nature Physics Astronomy

syzygy episodes

September 27, 2019 44: Waterworld?
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talked about in this episode:
The research papers: Tsiaras et al, and Benneke et al
National Geographic article about the discovery
Some of the hyped media response
The Goldilocks Zone
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
What’s a Grism?
39 min
September 20, 2019 43: Moss Piglets in Spaaace!
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talked about in this episode:
Apollo 11 — the film
Israel’s moon mission crashes!
All about tardigrades
The Arch Mission Foundation
Tesla in Space
Indian Space Research Organisation
Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission
39 min
September 09, 2019 World's First Trans-Galactic Podcast!
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
8 min
September 09, 2019 42: Life, The Universe, And Everything
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talk about in this episode:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Amazon affiliate link)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide Wiki
42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Fermi Problems
The Drake Equation
Carl Sagan
SETI
Jill Tarter
The Arecibo Telescope
The Arecibo Message
The University of York’s Astrocampus
49 min
September 02, 2019 Teaser: a special Ep 42 event
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
3 min
August 13, 2019 (Live) The Great Syzygy Space Off!
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talk about in this episode:
The Micklegate Social in York
The centre of the galaxy smells like raspberries and tastes like rum
A syzygystic coincidence?
Coronal mass ejection in 2012
The Big Rip
Pillars of Creation
Finger of God
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
54 min
July 28, 2019 41: Cosmic Microwave Background (Scopes on a Balloon!)
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talk about in this episode:
Historical balloon telescopes
The Cosmic Microwave Background
Sixty Symbols video about the CMB
COBE mission
WMAP mission
The Planck mission
The CMB and Inflation
53 min
July 21, 2019 40: One Giant Leap
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talk about in this episode:
Apollo 11 anniversary
The Dish (96% on Rotten Tomatoes)
Science during the Apollo 11 mission
ROI for the Moon missions
Future Moon missions
Mars missions
1 hr 6 min
June 30, 2019 39: Ridiculously Large Telescopes
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talk about in this episode:
The Giant Magellan Telescope
A good video about the GMT from National Geographic
XKCD on telescope names
The plain old Magellan Telescope
SALT, the South African Large Telescope
The Very Large Telescope
The European Extremely Large Telescope
The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (now cancelled)
The Thirty Metre Telescope
Making Magellan Mirrors (video)
Description of the mirror process (video)
The GMT Science Book
Active Optics and Adaptive Optics
48 min
June 14, 2019 38: Blue Twinkly Supergiants
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod
Things we talk about in this episode:
The blue supergiant paper
Blue Supergiants
Rigel in Orion
Space telescopes
Supernova 1987a
34 min