Astrophiz Podcasts

Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith on building the world's biggest radio telescope, sciencing with indigenous communities and national science Week. Dr Ian Musgrave wraps up the Perseids, explains magnitudes and 'What's up in the sky this week'. Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov introduces Pulsars, and their discoverer, Dame Jocelyn Bell. In the news this week: Science week, Primordial Black Holes, a trip to Proxima Centauri and building a home radio telescope to study the sun.

Dr Karen Lee-Waddell tells us about her research with CSIRO on tidal dwarf galaxies. Ian tells us more about the Perseid Meteor Shower, the 'Dance of the Planets' and what's up in the sky this week. Dr Nadezhda tells us about the discovery or radio waves from Jupiter. In the news: Help find black holes by joining a citizen science project at radio.galaxyzoo.org and we explain how the colours of auroras happen.

Dr Nadezhda tells us about pioneering Australian astrophysicist and ardent women's rights advocate Ruby Payne-Scott, and I explain EM waves and the many colours of light. Ian tells us about the 'dance of the planets' and what's up in the sky this week. In the news: Jupiter's Red Hot Spot, New type of Binary Star. MWA eavesdrops on old supernova. Juno drops a donut. Brightest object in our universe (so far). How to listen to the Perseids on your FM Radio. And yes, last week said the word 'universe' instead of 'galaxy' ... her bad

Interview: Dave 'the grave ' Hunter - Magnetometers and interpreting heliophysical satellite data. History & Theory of radio astronomy: Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov from Tver tells us about Karl Jansky. Dr Ian Musgrave tells us "What's up in the sky this week" - The News Roundup: MeerKat and Dark Matter, and astronomy news snippets.

Astrophiz Podcast 1 is here for your listening pleasure. Astrophiz 101, interview with Robert Arrowsmith, History & Theory from Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov: James Clerk Maxwell. News about The Australian Compact Array and Murchison Widefield Array and what's in the night sky via Dr Ian Musgrave's Astroblog site, and reference to Adelaide Radio Astronomy Group. Thanks to Michael Roberts for the opening theme backing track