syzygy

By Chris Stewart & Emily BrunsdenScience Nature Physics Astronomy

syzygy episodes

December 20, 2019 54: Black Hole Redemption
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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 talked about in this episode:
Hyabusa-2 mission
The Supermassive Black Hole paper and press release
A good article about the research
All about SMBHs
40 min
December 13, 2019 53: ’Tis the season(ality)
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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 talked about in this episode:
The exoplanet seasonality paper
A good article about the research
Plate Tectonics with MinuteEarth
The James Webb Space Telescope
Has JWST launched yet?
40 min
December 04, 2019 52: Live from the Podcast Social Club!
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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 talked about in this episode:
Friend of the show Circus Stu and Circus Skills York — thanks for the bell, Stu!
The Podcast Social Club
Deer Shed Festival
NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau
Chris’s deadly pulsar planet
Emily’s deadly lava planet
Chris’s terrifying glass planet
Emily’s existentially terrifying rogue planet
Chris’s weird & wonderful über-Saturn
Emily’s weird & wonderful … exoplanet? Discovery of planet around PSR1829-10 and retraction
Earthrise photo
Pale Blue Dot, as made famous by Carl Sagan
The Voyager missions
44 min
November 16, 2019 51: Mercury in Transit!
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23
York’s Astrocampus
The transit of Mercury 2019 in glorious 4k!
Transits in the future
The Black Drop Effect
Kepler the astronomer
Kepler Space Telescope
Exoplanet transit light curves
CGP Grey: Which Planet is the Closest?
44 min
November 11, 2019 50: Imposter Comet!
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23
First all-female space walk
2I/Borisov, first interstellar comet
Research papers on 2I/Borisov: Initial characterisation and detection of cyanide
‘Oumuamua, an interstellar “asteroid?”™
Path of 2I/Borisov
The Oort Cloud
Halley’s Comet
Comet Shoemaker Levy rams into Jupiter in 1994
Kruger 60, hometown of 2I/Borisov? (Original paper)
Comet Interceptor mission
44 min
November 06, 2019 49: The Syzygy Planet Hunter's Guide
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23
The Official Syzygy Planet Spotter Scorecard
Stellarium app for stargazing
NASA’s overview of the planets
Mercury transit Nov 2019
Venus transits
Retrograde motion of the planets
Saturn has more moons than Jupiter
Exoplanet-hosting stars: Pollux, Formalhaut and Proxima Centauri
Hubble image (!) of Fomalhaut b
1 hr 7 min
October 26, 2019 48: Wobbly Stars & Exoplanets
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23
Hot Neptune Desert
Forbidden Planets
Fulton Gap
Exoplanet sizes
Impossible planets
Solar oscillation movies
45 min
October 19, 2019 47: The Milky Way Explodes!
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics
Original research paper on the Milky Way explosion
Joss Bland-Hawthorn’s Conversation article about the research
The structure of the Milky Way
The Magellanic Clouds
The super massive black hole at the heart of the galaxy
Agctive Galactic Nuclei
ROSAT and FERMI
The GAIA survey
36 min
October 11, 2019 46: Dark Energy And The End Of The Universe
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23
Einstein’s biggest blunder
Hubble and the expansion of the universe
Measuring distance with standard candles
Veritasium video on The 2011 Nobel Prize
The fate of the universe: crunch, rip or chill?
Planck map of the Cosmic Background Radiation
2DF Galaxy Redshift Survey
50 min
October 07, 2019 45: Biggest Neutron Star Ever!
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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 talked about in this episode:
The Nature Astronomy paper
NASA’s site on neutron stars, pulsars and magnetars
Video on white dwarf stars by Kurzgesagt
Electron degeneracy
Chandrasekhar and his Limit
The 100m Greenbank Radio Observatory
Degenerate matter
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and LGM-1
Neutron star limit, known as the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
47 min