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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.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

The Goblin paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.00013.pdf

A more readable story about The Goblin: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-discovery-goblin-stirs-signs-elusive-planet-9-180970442/

The Astronomical Unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

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

The Voyager missions: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

The Heliopause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere

The Oort Cloud: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud

Our nearest star (other than the Sun, which is a star also): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

Trans-Neptunian Objects: https://www.universeguide.com/fact/kuiperbelt

The Subaru Telescope: https://subarutelescope.org

The Skymapper Telescope: https://rsaa.anu.edu.au/observatories/telescopes/skymapper-telescope

The Zooniverse — get some Citizen Science going: https://www.zooniverse.org/

Zooniverse — Backyard Worlds: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-worlds-planet-9

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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.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

Quantum weirdness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kb1VT0J3DE

Quantum entanglement: https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-made-simple-20160428/

The MIT/Vienna experiment: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/miot-lfa082018.php

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:

TESS update: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Paper about the stars at the galactic core: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/07/aa33718-18/aa33718-18.html

Article about the research: https://www.universetoday.com/139701/einstein-was-right-again-successful-test-of-general-relativity-near-a-supermassive-black-hole/

Video about the research: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825a/

Video of the orbiting stars: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo

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

The Very Large Telescope: http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/telescopes/vlti.html

A visit to the VLT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BXIA5r9r29I

Tests of General Relativity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

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:

• Mars is *still* having a bit of a dust storm: https://mars.nasa.gov/weather/storm-watch-2018/

• Name the ExoMars rover! (Please, no Marsy McMarsfaces, OK?) https://events.airbus.com/exomarsnamecomp

• The Lunar Eclipse, 27 July 2018, livestream replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqBStEIVF8o

• So, water on Mars, eh? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-may-have-lake-liquid-water-search-life

• The scientific paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/science.aar7268

• The Mars Express mission: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express

• Lake Vostok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok

• All the times we’ve found water on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars

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:

• Mars is having a bit of a dust storm at the moment: https://mars.nasa.gov/weather/storm-watch-2018/

• Name the ExoMars rover! (Please, no Marsy McMarsfaces, OK?) https://events.airbus.com/exomarsnamecomp

• When and where to see the Lunar Eclipse, 27 July 2018: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-july-27

• Solar eclipse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse

• Solar corona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona

• Star Charts: https://astronomynow.com/uk-sky-chart/

• Free planetarium app for your computer/phone/tablet/device: http://stellarium.org

• Historical eclipses: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhistory/SEhistory.html

• Historical comets: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/54198-harbingers-of-doom-windy-exhalations-or-icy-wanderers/

• Historical supernovae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supernova_observation

• Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

• Future eclipses: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

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