Naked Astronomy
Thrusting Space Science into the Audio Dimension... We look at the latest news from the stars, planets and other heavenly bodies. Plus interviews with professional astronomers and the answers to your space science questions.
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Chris Hadfield: How to fix a space toilet - Naked Astronomy 14.01.10 -
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris ...
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. In this special edition of the podcast, Commander Hadfield talks about fixing a space toilet, how rifle practice helped him dock a spacecraft and the advantages of flyi...
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Astronomy in South Africa - Naked Astronomy 13.12.25 -
Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large ...
Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities....
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The future of lunar space missions - Naked Astronomy 13.12.10 -
Join Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham for a ...
Join Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham for a lunar love-in featuring Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and studio guests David Baker, author of the latest Apollo 13 Haines Manual, and the spacetastic Gareth Jones. Together they discuss...
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The Space Boffins look forward to ExoMars - Naked Astronomy 13.11.25 -
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by ...
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by new Mars Society president Jerry Stone and aspiring astronaut Kate Arkless-Gray. Sue reports from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover p...
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Comet ISON is coming! - Naked Astronomy 13.10.25 -
As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with ...
As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it will be. Dominic Ford speaks to Matthew Bishop at the Lowell Observatory to find out more. He also talks to Apostolos Christou fro...
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Exploring the Solar System - Naked Astronomy 13.09.25 -
Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where ...
Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where he heard about the latest misisons to Mars and the Moon. Lewis Dartnell explains how the ExoMars mission, due to land on Mars in 2018, will go about looking for signs of lifefor...
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Mapping out the Milky Way - Naked Astronomy 13.08.25 -
This autumn, the Gaia spacecraft will be launched on a ...
This autumn, the Gaia spacecraft will be launched on a mission to find out where the Milky Way's stars came from. I catch up with two of the astronomers at the Lund Observatory who've worked on designing the spacecraft, and with one of the astrono...
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The National Astronomy Meeting 2013 - Naked Astronomy 13.07.25 -
This month I've taken to the seaside to bring you ...
This month I've taken to the seaside to bring you a special episode of Naked Astronomy from the National Astronomy Meeting, which was held in St Andrews in the first week of July. I find out about the sparkles that can help us to understand solar fl...
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Giant planets - Naked Astronomy 13.06.25 -
How much detail can amateur astronomers see on Jupiter, and ...
How much detail can amateur astronomers see on Jupiter, and how can space scientists use this to probe the Solar System's largest storms?...
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The Milky Way's local black hole - Naked Astronomy 13.05.25 -
We talk to astronomers who study the environments around black ...
We talk to astronomers who study the environments around black holes, ask what we can learn from a meteor which hit the Moon in March, and find out how spacecraft can navigate their way through the solar system....
