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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.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

Happy Birthday, Astrocampus!

Royal Astronomical Society article about Bethany’s research

Bethany’s paper

Binary star systems

Habitable Zone

A septuple star system

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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.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

TESS the exoplanet hunter

JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission

The Ryuga asteroid

Ceres, the dwarf planet

Brian May, astrophysicist

Origin of Earth’s water

Ryugu, the dragon palace

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Things we talk about in this episode:

LIGO

Time for an upgrade

WIRED story about the upgrade

Gravitational waves

Methods of detecting gravitational waves

Veritasium video on wave interference

Interferometer animation

Black hole merger in 2015

Neutron star merger in 2017

Cosmic inflation

Theories Of Everything

LISA — LIGO, but bigger, and in space!

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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.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

International Year of the Periodic Table: https://www.iypt2019.org

Dmitri Mendeleev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

Farewell, Opportunity. You’ve done so very well! https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7334

Astronomer’s Periodic Table by Periodic Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akrRznGgDc

Stellar nucleosynthesis: https://www.thoughtco.com/stellar-nucleosynthesis-2699311

Big Bang nucleosynthesis: http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/BBN.html

Supernova nucleosynthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_nucleosynthesis

Neutron star mergers: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/114

The elements song, by Tom Lehrer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM

An updated version, by Helen Arney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvjB5hC2qc

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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.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

The research in this episode: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/01/16/science.aat2965?rss=1

Article about the research: https://www.universetoday.com/141272/saturns-rings-are-only-10-to-100-million-years-old/

The Cassini-Huygens mission: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/overview/

Images from Cassini: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/galleries/images/

Farewell, Cassini: https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/15/cassini-end-of-mission-rip/

Mimas, the Death Star moon: https://www.universetoday.com/15436/saturns-moon-mimas/

Comet smashes into Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9

How long is a day on Saturn? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7316

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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.

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Things we talk about in this episode:
The Super Wolf Blood Moon of 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWYEffBpW0

Meteorite impact during eclipse: https://www.space.com/43075-blood-moon-2019-meteor-impact-video.html

Future Eclipses: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

Got some spare dough? Send Emily and Chris to this eclipse! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-december-14

Moon’s shadow on the Earth during solar eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJuBrRwlU4

TESS website: https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite

Juno mission photography: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno

TESS First Light: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1523/first-light-tess-shares-first-science-image-in-hunt-to-find-new-worlds/

First exoplanets from TESS data: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/

Gamma Dor stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Doradus_variable

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Things we talk about in this episode:

The early solar system: https://www.space.com/35526-solar-system-formation.html 

Stellar nurseries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation 

Pillars of creation: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation 

The Snow Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line_(astrophysics) 

Models of planet formation: http://cosmicdiary.org/geminiplanetimager/2015/09/16/what-do-we-know-about-planet-formation/

Where did Earth’s water come from? https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/where-did-earth-get-its-water 

Jupiter and Saturn migration: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/young-jupiter.html 

Hot Jupiters: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/investigating-the-mystery-of-migrating-hot-jupiters 

Hoptunes: http://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/news/2018/introducing-hoptunes-new-class-exoplanets-could-help-solve-mystery-worlds-scorching-orbits 

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Things we talk about in this episode:

Image 1, The Pillars of Creation, from Time Magazine’s 100 Photos site: http://100photos.time.com/photos/nasa-pillars-of-creation

The Pillars of Creation — 2015 update: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation

Comparing the two images: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501d/

Modelling the Pillars in 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWklVPvk0C8

Image 2, Huge Hubble panorama of Andromeda galaxy: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/

Zoom into Andromeda! https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/

A video zoom into the Andromeda image: https://youtu.be/aLlQxsGyhnw

A fly-through in 4k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

The zoom that broke Chris’s brain: http://hubblesite.org/image/3478/news_release/2015-02

Chris’s video on Andromeda’s awesomeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wicEtpPfry4

Chris Baker, Galaxy on Glass: https://galaxyonglass.com

Image 3, Chris’s Witch’s Broomstick: https://galaxyonglass.com/product/supernova-the-witchs-broom/

The Witch’s Broom, a.k.a The Veil Nebula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_Nebula

The Cygnus Loop Nebula: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/pia15415.html

Image 4, Chris’s Rosette: https://galaxyonglass.com/product/the-rosette/

The Rosette Nebula: https://oneminuteastronomer.com/2477/rosette-nebula/

Strömgren Spheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strömgren_sphere

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Things we talk about in this episode:

The merging galaxies paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0652-7

Hubblesite article about the story: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/astronomers-unveil-growing-black-holes-in-colliding-galaxies

Simulations of galaxy collisions: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10687

Stephan’s Quintet: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140327.html

Keck Observatory: http://www.keckobservatory.org

Gravitational wave discovery: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170927

Simulations of SMBH mergers: https://www.space.com/42017-merging-supermassive-black-holes-eerie-glow.html

Milky Way and Andromeda are going to collide: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html

And they will form … Milkdromeda! https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30955

Andromeda in the night sky: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061228.html

If only Andromeda was a bit brighter: http://i.imgur.com/EpuhHJa.png