The Cosmic Savannah

By The Cosmic Savannah

A podcast showcasing world-class astronomy under African skies.... more

4.6

2929 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about The Cosmic Savannah:

How many episodes does The Cosmic Savannah have?

The podcast currently has 107 episodes available.

The Cosmic Savannah episodes:

March 29, 2019 Episode 3: SETI with MeerKAT

with Dr Griffin Foster

In this episode Dr Griffin Foster describes the planned hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence with South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope!

Griffin is from the University of Oxford and is the project scientist for Breakthrough Listen – a program to hunt for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes.

Griffin explains, in a surprisingly down-to-earth and practical way, why we might expect intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms to exist elsewhere in the Universe, how they might be trying to communicate and how we might search for these signals.

Griffin and the Breakthrough Listen team plan to conduct part of their search with the new MeerKAT radio telescope. MeerKAT is one of the world’s most advanced radio telescopes and is located in the Karoo in South Africa.

Episode Links:

BL@MeerKAT announcement: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/23

Berkeley SETI Research Center: http://seti.berkeley.edu/

This week’s guest:

Dr Griffin Foster
...more
36min
March 28, 2019 Episode 2: Instruments and Singing Asteroids
with Dr Amanda Sickafoose and Vanessa Lorenzo In Episode 2, we hear from Dr Amanda Sickafoose who tells us about the complicated instrumentation her team are building for South African […]
The post Episode 2: Instruments and Singing Asteroids appeared first on The Cosmic Savannah.
...more
44min
March 28, 2019 Episode 2: Instruments and Singing Asteroids

with Dr Amanda Sickafoose and Vanessa Lorenzo

In Episode 2, we hear from Dr Amanda Sickafoose who tells us about the complicated instrumentation her team are building for South African telescopes and some of her fascinating work on our Solar System.

Vanessa Lorenzo also talks to us about her time as artist-in-residence at the SAAO and her installation giving a voice to rocks and asteroids.

Vanessa demonstrating her prototype exhibition at the SAAO.

The performer Mélanie Martinoli explores the augmented rocks in the VR version of ‘Always Calling Home’, by Vanessa Lorenzo, 2018-ongoing. Photo by the artist CC BY 4.0.

Episode Links:

SAAO contributes to MU69 exploration

https://www.hybridoa.org/

This week’s guests:

Vanessa at work in the Southern Hemisphere @VanessaLorenzoT
...more
44min
March 15, 2019 Episode 1: SALT and Near-Earth Asteroids
with Dr Moses Mogotsi and Dr Nicolas Erasmus Welcome to the very first episode of The Cosmic Savannah! In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our vision for the podcast, […]
The post Episode 1: SALT and Near-Earth Asteroids appeared first on The Cosmic Savannah.
...more
40min
March 15, 2019 Episode 1: SALT and Near-Earth Asteroids

with Dr Moses Mogotsi and Dr Nicolas Erasmus

Welcome to the very first episode of The Cosmic Savannah!

In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our vision for the podcast, SALT Astronomer Dr Moses Mogotsi describes what it’s like to use the biggest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere and Dr Nicolas Erasmus tells us about the hunt for near-earth asteroids.

The Sutherland Plateau, SAAO.

SAAO Researcher Dr Nicolas Erasmus and his MSc student Petro Janse Van Rensburg observed a large (1-2 km) asteroid passing Earth at about 75 times the distance to the moon. But in the background, a distant spiral galaxy!

The Cosmic Savannah is created and hosted by Dr Jacinta Delhaize and Dr Daniel Cunnama.

Jacinta is a radio astronomer based at the University of Cape Town. She is a South African Radio Astronomical Observatory (SARAO) Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dan is the Science Engagement Astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).

Episode Links:SAAO: http://www.saao.ac.zaATLAS: http://atlas.fallingstar.comSALT: http://www.salt.ac.zaMinor Planet Center: https://minorplanetcenter.net/SARAO: https://www.ska.ac.za/about/sarao/UCT Astronomy: http://www.ast.uct.ac.za/African VLBI Network: https://www.ska.ac.za/science-engineering/avn/

This week’s guests:

Dr Moses MogotsiDr Nicolas Erasmus
...more
40min
March 10, 2019 Ep 0: The Cosmic Savannah teaser
Welcome to The Cosmic Savannah! The Cosmic Savannah is a new podcast giving you a behind-the-scenes peek into the realm of world-class astronomy and astrophysics happening in Africa. Each episode, […]
The post Episode 0: The Cosmic Savannah teaser appeared first on The Cosmic Savannah.
...more
1min
March 10, 2019 Ep 0: The Cosmic Savannah teaser
Welcome to The Cosmic Savannah!
The Cosmic Savannah is a new podcast giving you a behind-the-scenes peek into the realm of world-class astronomy and astrophysics happening in Africa.
Each episode, hosts Dr Jacinta Delhaize and Dr Daniel Cunnama will chat to different guests and introduce you to the people, the technology, the science, the research and the fascinating discoveries emerging from African astronomy.
No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to join us on a safari through the skies!
The Cosmic Savannah is coming soon. Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or where ever you get your podcasts!
...more
1min

FAQs about The Cosmic Savannah:

How many episodes does The Cosmic Savannah have?

The podcast currently has 107 episodes available.

More shows like The Cosmic Savannah

The Infinite Monkey Cage by BBC Radio 4

The Infinite Monkey Cage

1,993 Listeners

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science by The Planetary Society

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

1,359 Listeners

Ask a Spaceman! by Paul M. Sutter

Ask a Spaceman!

843 Listeners

AWESOME ASTRONOMY by Paul & Dr Jeni

AWESOME ASTRONOMY

116 Listeners

Sky Tour Astronomy Podcast by American Astronomical Society

Sky Tour Astronomy Podcast

272 Listeners

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries by Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

236 Listeners

Houston We Have a Podcast by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Houston We Have a Podcast

1,248 Listeners

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4,203 Listeners

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe by iHeartPodcasts

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

2,364 Listeners

The Supermassive Podcast by The Royal Astronomical Society

The Supermassive Podcast

324 Listeners

NASA's Curious Universe by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA's Curious Universe

896 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics: Leading by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

759 Listeners

The Rest Is Entertainment by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Entertainment

957 Listeners