Through the Telescope

Rose and Elliott focus in on pulsars an neutron stars, what they are, what’s the difference and what makes pulsars the lighthouses of space. They also discuss the link between neutron stars, gravitational waves and Nobel prizes.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Rose and Elliott look at the closest planet to the Sun, and see what more there is to the planet than being small. Does size really matter? They also look at the missions that have gone to the planet, and why alchemists were mad about Mercury.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Rose and Elliott look at what makes stars different from each other and how to classify them, as well as the work of the “Harvard computers” that made stellar classification possible. They look at stellar spectroscopy and black-body radiation, the colour of stars and find out just why it took so long to make the Harvard system of classifying stars. After all, how hard can it be?

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Links relating to this episode:

Annie Jump Cannon and stellar classification: https://princetonastronomy.com/2021/02/01/annie-jump-cannon-and-the-creation-of-stellar-classification/

Music:

"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Rose and Elliott look at the activity of the Sun, what the surface looks like and the importance of magnetic fields. From coronal mass ejections, to flares and sunspots, they discover all the weather you can expect on the Sun before looking at how it can be used to drive spacecraft with solar sails.

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Links relating to this episode:

Near-live images of the Sun and its features: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dashboard/

Solar cycles: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Solar_cycle_25_the_Sun_wakes_up

LightSail: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Rose and Elliott dive into the Sun, from the core outwards. They look at where the Sun is headed in it’s old life and whether there are any mid-life crises on the horizon. As well as the difference between the radiative and convective zones and the photosphere and the chromosphere, they discover the surprising mystery lurking at the centre of our solar system: the coronal heating problem.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This episode, Rose and Elliott put the spotlight on Jodrell Bank, home to the iconic Lovell radio telescope and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Roses are red, pale dots are blue,

A bonus episode especially for you.

In this special, Rose and Elliott look at the anniversary of the Voyager I Pale Blue Dot image from the outer reaches of our solar system.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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”Soft Daydream” Evgeny Bardyuzha from Pixabay

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Rose and Elliott fly through the solar system, from the Sun to the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud, and everything in between. They also talk about the arrival of a traveller from the furthest edges of the system.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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After discussing what an exoplanet is and how many there are out there, Rose and Elliott dive in to the different methods astronomers use to discover and confirm exoplanets and talk about exoplanets in popular culture.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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What is an exoplanet? How many are there? Does every star have one? Rose and Elliott find out and look at some of the weirder ones out there, as well as why scientists should really wait a while before settling on a naming system.

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"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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