The AstroPod (astronomy podcast)

This month hear about the Royal Astronomical Society and its presidents in the history section and our interview with Prof. Andy Fabian. Listen to the latest Astro news from Laura and find your way around the night sky with Alex. Don't forget the joke of the month too! Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

This month you can hear all about CCDs (charge-coupled devices) in our interview with Craig Mackay and also Anna's history section. Find out how advances in Astronomy affect your everyday life! Alex guides us around the night sky in May, we have the latest news stories from Laura and, of course, we have the Astro joke of the month from Michelle. Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

This month is a Mars special! We have an interview with Dr Peter Smith of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona who is in charge of the Phoenix mission to Mars. Anna also tells us about the history of Mars exploration. Thank you to everyone who came to talk to us at the IoA Open Afternoon - we hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did! Included this month are some of the questions you asked us along with our answers. Of course we also have Alex's guide to the Sky at Night in April, the latest news stories from Laura and some astro comedy from Michelle. Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Hear all about a new audio composition, 'Observations', which will be premiered at the Institute of Astronomy in March. Combined with this, Anna gives us some background about how music is connected to Astronomy. We also have the latest Astronomy news stories from Laura, the guide to what to see in the night sky this month with Alex and the joke you've all been waiting for! This month we bid farwell to Jayne and Quinton but fear not! The Astropod lives on! Thank you for all their hard work! Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Welcome to the December edition of the AstroPod and a

Happy New Year to you all! We've put together a show to celebrate the

start of a new decade. The new PhD students at the IoA have been keen

to get involved with the AstroPod. Listen out for Quinton's interview

with the new crew! We have Joe reading the news, Alex with the Sky at

Night, and Michelle strikes again with a particularly terrible

astronomy joke of the month! Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you can

find more info on our website at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Welcome to the November edition of the AstroPod! This

month we talk to Prof Mike Irwin at the IoA about our nearest

neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, and how astronomers are piecing

together is surprisingly violent history! Anna delves into the

mythological in this month's history feature, looking at how certain

objects in the sky got their names. And of course we have Alex with

the Sky at Night, Laura with the news and Michelle with your monthly

installment of astro-comedy gold! Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you

can find more info on our website at

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Welcome to the October edition of the AstroPod! This

month the Director of the IoA and recent recipient of the Gruber

prize, Prof. Rob Kennicutt, tells us all about the exciting key

project from the Hubble Space Telescope that accurately measured the

expansion rate of our universe and its age. Anna's feature this month

delves into the history of the Plumian Professorship held here at

Cambridge and the outstanding astronomers that have filled the role

over the centuries. And of course we have Alex with the Sky at Night

and Michelle with your monthly installment of astro-comedy gold! Sit

back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website at

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Welcome to the September edition of the AstroPod!

We're a little later than usual this month as we've been on our summer

holidays but we're back a ready to deliver the astronomy goodness that

you've been craving! This month, we interview Dr Jay Farihi Leceister

from University, who explains to us how recent findings of debris

disks around the dying remnants of stars like our Sun may hold the key

to the fate of the solar system. Anna delves into the past exchanges

between astronomers researching white dwarfs stars and how

disagreements may have held back the field for many years. Laura keeps

us up-to-date with the AstroNews, Alex gives some tops tips for

observing this month and Michelle brings us more astro comedy gold!

Sit back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website

at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Welcome to the July edition of the AstroPod! This

month we're talking with Dr Nic Ross from Penn State University about

the elusive dark energy and how astronomers have designed a new survey

that hopes to determine its nature. With Anna away, Michelle tells us

about the turbulent history of the cosmological constant, and Alex

gives out some tips on observing the night sky this month. Be sure to

catch Quinton as the unwilling victim for the Joke of the Month! Sit

back, enjoy and don't forget you can find more info on our website at

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod

Welcome to the June edition of the AstroPod! We were

lucky enough to catch Dr. Jonathan Williams from IfA, Hawaii during

his whirlwind visit to the UK this month and got to find out how

astronomers use signals from some of the coldest material in the

universe to look at the birth of planets. Check it out in this month's

interview! In honour of the recent Hubble servicing mission, Anna

tells us all about Edwin Hubble in the history feature. Alex has some

great tips for astrophotography this month and Michelle brings out the

comedy gold with a Trekie theme... Sit back, enjoy and don't forget

you can find more info on our website at

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astropod