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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Things we talked about in this episode:

The research papers: Tsiaras et al, and Benneke et al

National Geographic article about the discovery

Some of the hyped media response

The Goldilocks Zone

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope

What’s a Grism?

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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.

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Things we talked about in this episode:

Apollo 11 — the film

Israel’s moon mission crashes!

All about tardigrades

The Arch Mission Foundation

Tesla in Space

Indian Space Research Organisation

Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission

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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.

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Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypod

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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Things we talk about in this episode:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Amazon affiliate link)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide Wiki

42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Fermi Problems

The Drake Equation

Carl Sagan

SETI

Jill Tarter

The Arecibo Telescope

The Arecibo Message

The University of York’s Astrocampus

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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.

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