
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Evidence for the Big Bang at the start of the universe was discovered by accident, using technology developed to record radio waves from space, that were themselves found by accident.
Adam Hart explores serendipity in radio astronomy with Professor Nial Tanvir of Leicester University, and Professor Sarah Bridle of Manchester University, in a story involving not a small amount of pigeon poo, and a persistent odd noise detected from space.
Produced by Rory Galloway. First broadcast on Tuesday 24 July 2018.
By BBC Radio 45
99 ratings
Evidence for the Big Bang at the start of the universe was discovered by accident, using technology developed to record radio waves from space, that were themselves found by accident.
Adam Hart explores serendipity in radio astronomy with Professor Nial Tanvir of Leicester University, and Professor Sarah Bridle of Manchester University, in a story involving not a small amount of pigeon poo, and a persistent odd noise detected from space.
Produced by Rory Galloway. First broadcast on Tuesday 24 July 2018.

7,669 Listeners

1,062 Listeners

5,475 Listeners

1,801 Listeners

1,761 Listeners

1,054 Listeners

2,080 Listeners

404 Listeners

424 Listeners

85 Listeners

830 Listeners

238 Listeners

356 Listeners

85 Listeners

475 Listeners

68 Listeners

125 Listeners

3,204 Listeners

730 Listeners

111 Listeners

70 Listeners

1,606 Listeners

107 Listeners