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

TESS’s crazy orbit: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/operations.html

TESS’s telescopes: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/the-tess-space-telescope.html

Emily’s research: https://www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/#research

Types of  variable stars: https://www.space.com/15396-variable-stars.html

Modes of vibration on a string: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSIw5SgUirg

Red Giant stars: https://www.universetoday.com/24720/red-giant-star/

Animation of a stellar pulsation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IVm_aE3k98

The Sun’s core is rotating faster than its surface: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/esa-nasa-s-soho-reveals-rapidly-rotating-solar-core

The Song of the Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2eQPOo95l0&feature=youtu.be

Singing Stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzeJq3CbiZM

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:

Astronomical naming schemes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming_conventions

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov

The best exoplanet pages out there- get lost in the awesome! https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/

Kepler and K2 missions: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html

Comparing Kepler and TESS fields of view: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=12885&button=recent

Exoplanet atmospheres: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130730-neptune-like-exoplanet-spotted-that-has-a-watery-atmosphere/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180301144131.htm

TESS’s Mission Objectives: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/objectives.html

TESS’s orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AIbD2WxyN8

SpaceX Rocket Man: https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M

Fly Your Exoplanet on TESS: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/fly_your_exoplanet.html

https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/fly_your_exoplanet_pics.html

James Webb Space Telescope: https://jwst.nasa.gov

JWST and Hubble mirror comparison: https://jwst.nasa.gov/mirrors.html

JWST’s L2 Lagrange Point: https://www.wired.com/2011/08/james-webb-space-telescope-and-l2-orbits/

Lagrange and Laplace: https://manyworldstheory.com/2014/11/24/lagrange-laplace-and-legendre-which-one-is-which/

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Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

Dark Matter in the news: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/galaxy-seems-to-lack-dark-matter-stumping-astronomers/

Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25767

PDF of the paper: http://www.astro.yale.edu/dokkum/papers/mass.pdf

Galaxy Rotation Curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

MACHOs, WIMPS & other weirdness: https://theconversation.com/from-machos-to-wimps-meet-the-top-five-candidates-for-dark-matter-51516

Dark matter and galaxy clusters: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/galaxy-clusters-reveal-new-dark-matter-insights

Galaxies in collision: https://phys.org/news/2016-10-galaxies-collide.html

The Bullet Cluster: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060824.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod
Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

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

Chris can be found online: kipstewart.com

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

Geocentric models of the universe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model

Retrograde motion of planets & heliocentric models: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/

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

First exoplanet confirmed 1995: exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2084/

The transit method: www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/exoplanets/transit-photometry.html

Kepler mission: kepler.nasa.gov

Exoplanets we know of: exoplanets.nasa.gov

Our location in the Milky Way: www.universetoday.com/65601/where-is-earth-in-the-milky-way/

Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers opening line: www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-uncharted-backwaters-of-the-unfashionable-end

Extragalactic planets paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaa5fb

Extragalactic planets news story: www.sciencealert.com/planets-found-in-another-galaxy-quasar-gravitational-microlensing

Quasars: www.spacetelescope.org/science/black_holes/

Gravitational Lensing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

Einstein and the solar eclipse: www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/07/04/how-a-solar-eclipse-first-proved-einstein-right/#6bda2738766a

Funhouse quasar image: phys.org/news/2018-02-astrophysicists-planets-extragalactic-galaxies-microlensing.html

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

Planet HIP13044b: www.space.com/9556-alien-planet-galaxy-discovered.html

Galactic Cannibalism: www.universetoday.com/89086/galactic-cannibalism/

Exoplanet in Andromeda: www.newscientist.com/article/dn17287-first-extragalactic-exoplanet-may-have-been-found/

Exoplanet microlensing a quasar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extragalactic_planet#Twin_Quasar-related_planet

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