syzygy

By Chris Stewart & Emily BrunsdenScience Nature Physics Astronomy

syzygy episodes

May 14, 2019 37 (supplemental): Syzygy Film Club!
Syzygy LIVE! The Great Syzygy Space Off — 23 May in York!
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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:
Syzygy LIVE! The Great Syzygy Space Off — 23 May in York!
What The BLEEP?
Mark Kermode reviews “What The Bleep Do We Know?!”
Bleep?! on Rotten Tomatoes (36%)
Gravity
Gravity on Rotten Tomatoes (96%)
Gravity review in the Guardian (5 stars)
Interstellar
Modelling black holes for Interstellar
Interstellar on Rotten Tomatoes (72%)
Interstellar review in the Guardian (4 stars)
5 min
May 11, 2019 37: Crazy Donut Moon Theory
Syzygy LIVE! The Great Syzygy Space Off — 23 May in York!
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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:
Syzygy LIVE! The Great Syzygy Space Off — 23 May in York!
Hayabusa mission
Hayabusa blasts an asteroid!
Moon origin theories
Primal supernova
Late Heavy Bombardment Period
Theia, planet of doom!
Video of Theia collision (boooom!)
The donut theory paper
42 min
May 03, 2019 36: Scopes On A Plane!
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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:
NASA announces the Helium Hydride discovery
The original Nature paper
NGC 7027, the Gummy Bear Nebula
SOFIA, the scope on a plane that tweets
Adaptive Optics & Active Optics
Planetary Nebulae
36 min
April 23, 2019 35: THAT Black Hole Image
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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 Black Hole Image press conference (NSF, USA)
Event Horizon Telescope
How To Understand the Image of a Black Hole, by Veritasium
… and explainer afterwards
M87 Galaxy and its jet
Katie Bouman is all of us
Katie Bouman’s TED talk
Interstellar’s black hole
Doppler beaming
Black hole history
Rotating black holes (more Veritasium, what is it with this guy)
Pale Blue Dot
47 min
April 05, 2019 34: This System's Got 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.
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Things we talk about in this episode:
More than (or nearly!) 4000 exoplanets!
Exoplanet archive says we’re so close to 4k!
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia says we’ve already passed 4k
GRAVITY images exoplanet with optical interferometry
The GRAVITY paper
The Very Large Telescope
The GRAVITY instrument
Animation of HR 8799 planetary orbits
Gamma Doradus variable stars
35 min
March 21, 2019 33: Goldilocks Zones around Binary Stars
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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
39 min
March 15, 2019 32: A Mysterious Box of Asteroid Stuff
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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
39 min
February 22, 2019 31: LIGO Gets An Upgrade
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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:
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!
58 min
February 15, 2019 30: Stardust, or Cosmic Poo?
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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
40 min
February 08, 2019 29: The Serendipitous Rings of Saturn
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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
40 min