Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

To view the podcast chapter list and artwork in this episode, you could do worse than use the Overcast app on iOS, or Pocket Casts on Android. (Other podcast players are available, though they may not handle mp3 chapters nicely.)

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

All the latest TESS news! https://tess.mit.edu/news/

TESS’s first light: http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/first-light-for-tess

The Blazar Neutrino — Paper 1: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/eaat1378

Paper 2: : http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/147

A good article about the IceCube Neutrino: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/high-energy-neutrinos-blazar-icecube

Neutrinos: https://icecube.wisc.edu/info/neutrinos

IceCube Neutrino Observatory: https://icecube.wisc.edu

IceCube’s stunning Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icecube_neutrino/

Blazars: https://www.universetoday.com/30594/blazars/

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

To view the podcast chapter list and artwork in this episode, you could do worse than use the Overcast app on iOS, or Pocket Casts on Android. (Other podcast players are available, though they may not handle mp3 chapters nicely.)

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• A listener question from Circus Stu! https://www.circusskillsyorkcic.org

• James Clerk Maxwell: https://digital.nls.uk/scientists/biographies/james-clerk-maxwell/discoveries.html

• Wave-particle duality of light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuv6hY6zsd0

• Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity: http://www.einstein-online.info/elementary/specialRT.html

• General Theory of Relativity: https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/instant-expert-general-relativity/

• Bowling balls and rubber sheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg

• Brian Cox drops stuff in a vacuum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs

• Mass is weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls

• Neutrino astronomy: https://www.space.com/24334-neutrino-telescopes-astronomy-new-era.html

• Gravitational waves: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw

• Gravitational wave Astronomy: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-future-of-gravitational-wave-astronomy/

• Dark Sky Reserves: http://darksky.org

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

To view the podcast chapter list and artwork in this episode, you could do worse than use the Overcast app on iOS, or Pocket Casts on Android. (Other podcast players are available, though they may not handle mp3 chapters nicely.)

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• This week’s black hole paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/06/13/science.aao4669

• A good article about the story: https://www.sciencealert.com/arp-299-supermassive-black-hole-tidal-disruption-event-relativistic-jet-direct-image

• Black holes: what are they, exactly? A basic primer: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html

• A bit more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole

• Want to blow your mind? Star Size Comparison 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA

• Prof. Andrea Ghez looks at the supermassive black hole at the of the Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y9_g4b1PlA

• Prof. Ghez’s group: http://www.galacticcenter.astro.ucla.edu

• Galaxy collisions: https://phys.org/news/2016-10-galaxies-collide.html

• Gravitational singularities: https://www.universetoday.com/84147/singularity/

• Stephen Hawking: http://www.hawking.org.uk

• John Archibald Wheeler:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

The University of York's Astrocampus: http://www.astrocampus.org.uk

The Hubble Space Telescope: https://www.spacetelescope.org

Top 100 Hubble images: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/

Big Data in Astronomy: https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/jun/25/big-universe-big-data-astronomical-opportunity

Careers in Astronomy: https://aas.org/learn/careers-astronomy

Amateur astronomy around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_societies

Astronomy apps: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/752-best-space-watching-apps.html

Galaxy Zoo: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/

More citizen science: https://www.zooniverse.org

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• NASA’s announcement: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-finds-ancient-organic-material-mysterious-methane-on-mars

• The first Science paper about Methane: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1093

• The second Science paper about organics in the dirt: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1096

• NASA’s Curiosity rover: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Video showing Curiosity’s view of the Gale Crater: https://youtu.be/U5nrrnAukwI

• Curiosity’s selfie: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mount-sharp-photobombs-mars-curiosity-rover

• Curiosity sings Happy Birthday to itself: https://youtu.be/uxVVgBAosqg

• Methane from cows: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cow-emissions-more-damaging-to-planet-than-co2-from-cars-427843.html

• Water on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars

• Olympus Mons: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/solar_system_highlights/olympus_mons

• ESA’s ExoMars: http://exploration.esa.int/mars/48088-mission-overview/

• The fate of the Schiaparelli Lander: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-blogs/schiaparelli-requiem-for-a-mars-lander/

• NASA’s Spirit & Opportunity rovers: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/index.html

• The Mars 2020 mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/overview/

• The Mars Helicopter! https://youtu.be/oOMQOqKRWjU
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7121

• Sending humans to Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• The Dunes on Pluto paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/992

• A good article about the paper: https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-pluto-s-methane-dunes

• All about Pluto from NASA: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/overview/

• When I was your age, Pluto was a Planet! https://www.redbubble.com/people/kipstewart/works/3024944-when-i-was-your-age-pluto-was-a-planet?p=t-shirt

• Why Pluto is no longer a planet: https://www.universetoday.com/13573/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/

• How Pluto got its name: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-pluto-got-its-name-180955912/

• The Kuiper Belt: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/in-depth/

• The New Horizons mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

• Images of Pluto, before and after New Horizons: https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2016/08/04/pluto-what-a-journey/

• Pluto … or Pluto™? https://twitter.com/ekaschyk/status/620967219934154752

• Images of the dunes on Pluto: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/992/tab-figures-data

• Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

The Octopuses from Space paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798

Panspermia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

Octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-are-the-plurals-of-octopus-hippopotamus-syllabus

Octopuses are awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAIedFgdY0

Octopuses are really awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG6JebW63f4

Occam’s Razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

TESS Mission first images! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-new-planet-hunter-snaps-initial-test-image-swings-by-moon-toward-final-orbit

The Europa Plume paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0450-z

A good article about the pile up: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/twenty-years-ago-the-galileo-spacecraft-flew-through-a-plume-on-europa/

The Galileo Mission: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/galileo/overview/

Jupiter’s moons: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/overview/

The Cassini mission: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

Cassini’s awesome photo album: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/hall-of-fame/

Saturn’s moon Enceladus: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/moons/enceladus_(moon)

Water plumes on Enceladus: https://theconversation.com/icy-plumes-bursting-from-saturns-moon-enceladus-suggest-it-could-harbour-life-38673

Hubble images of plumes on Europa: https://gizmodo.com/hubble-discovers-new-evidence-of-geyser-activity-on-eur-1787081944

ESA’s JUICE mission: http://sci.esa.int/juice/

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/

Extremophiles on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

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Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

The Galactic Pile Up paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0025-2

A good article about the pile up: https://www.sciencealert.com/galaxy-megamergers-in-the-early-universe-protoclusters-spt2349-56-dusty-red-core

Syzygy Ep 01: https://www.syzygy.fm/podcast/2018/4/4/episode01

Rogue planets:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet

The ESA’s Gaia mission: http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_creates_richest_star_map_of_our_Galaxy_and_beyond

The Whirlpool Galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy

The Magellanic Clouds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds

The Local Group of galaxies: https://www.universetoday.com/30286/local-group/

Size comparison of Andromeda and the Moon: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/moon_and_andromeda_relative_size_in_the_sky.html

The Virgo Supercluster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster

The Millennium Simulation Project: https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/

A video zoom into the universe from the Millennium Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74IsySs3RGU

Minute Physics video on how the simulation was done, with some awesome graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP-C_B8nSmw

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

TESS mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3niFzo5VLI

The nanodiamond meteorite paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03808-6

Guardian article on the story: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/17/diamonds-in-sudan-meteorite-are-remnants-of-lost-planet

The Asteroid Belt: https://www.universetoday.com/32856/asteroid-belt/

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, lizardy sock puppet: https://youtu.be/MLtlcSR9A6M

Nanodiamonds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanodiamond

Solar System formation: http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/discovering_planets_beyond/how-do-planets-form

Solar System formation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhy1fucSRQI

Theia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)

Meteorite 2008 TC3: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/meteorites-found-from-asteroid-2008-tc3/

Exploding meteor over Russia in 2013: https://youtu.be/fBLjB5qavxY
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131106-russian-meteor-chelyabinsk-airburst-500-kilotons/

Meteortites stand out in the desert: https://www.universetoday.com/89656/the-asteroid-that-fell-to-earth-meteorites-from-2008-tc3-still-giving-up-their-secrets/

Meteorites on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xmeteorite.TRS0&_nkw=meteorite&_sacat=0

Meteorites in Antarctica: https://www.space.com/14316-hundreds-meteorites-antarctica-scientists.html