syzygy

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:

• 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

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 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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