Holy Flipping Galaxies Batman!
So it turns the Milkyway may have done a back flip...news about the Swift telescope, NASA raiding its bare cupboards, and a super fast star....
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Awesome Astronomy explores the frontiers of science, space and our evolving understanding of the universe. Join Ralph, Paul & Jeni for informative and fun astronomy programmes dedicated to s...
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The Eclipse and the Perseids
Join Paul in his Astronomy lair as he live sketches the Eclipse, chats to neighbours and talks Astronomy news while spotting Perseid meteors...
Jodrell Bank Murder Club
Angry episode where Paul and Jeni have their blood boiled by the decision to defund Jodrell Bank Observatory and the plans to launch over a...
Eclipse Girl Summer
Summer is here, so is the heat and so is the Eclipse! Chat, tips and hints about August's Eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower, as well as...
When Cosmologists get spicy
This month it appears cosmology is saved, Swift maybe saved and exoplanets have their magnetosphere measured. Jeni has been in the States wh...
The Secret History of a Space Mission
The idea that sparked a billion-dollar space telescope was recorded in the most unlikely of places: a scrap of paper fished out a pocket whi...
Objects in the Golden Mirror may be Closer
This month a bit of a JWST fest with news about the cosmic Web (Webb?! ) and those little red dots the seem to be breaking cosmology. There...
Psyche, Poet and Astronomy Exams
It's the chatty astrowaffle episode! Psyche rushing past Mars, Power instrument at VLT, GCSE Astronomy exams and listener emails. Produced b...
AstroCamp Live Show
A show recorded with the happy campers of Cwmdu. We talk smart scopes, late nights, planetary formation, news on Comet 3I and more on the Hu...
Artemis Chat
This month what else can we chat about? Paul and Jeni talk Artemis II. Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin
Gravitational musing and nuclear cruising
This episode Paul and Jeni look at a possible gravitational wave solution to the Hubble tension, NASAs new nuclear deep space engine, Hubble...
Artemis II Helium boogaloo
Our chatty astrowaffle episode this month is all about the Artemis re-jig and what the future now holds for the programme. Oh and update on...
Vanishing Stars and Invisible Galaxies
This month it is the curious case of a vanishing star and galaxies that shine no light...plus our monthly skyguide and Jeni has a blocked dr...
Ozone Hole II Mega-Constellation Bogaloo
This episode we chat about the potential ozone hole issue caused by mega constellations, how Jupiter has shrunk and what Aurora would look l...
The End of British Astronomy?
We discuss the British Government's vandalism of UK physics and astronomy. In better news we celebrate the refunding of NASA and the up comi...
3 days to lose LEO
So it looks like Low Earth Orbit is not just crowded but a disaster waiting to happen trapping humanity on this planet for a very long time....
Soundgarden win at Astrophysics
So it turns out Soundgarden nailed astrophysics in 1994. We explore latest thinking on Little Red Dots, Globular Custers, oldest supernovae,...
Panto 2025: Cometh the Comet, Comet the Ralph
It's time for our annual review of the year, a look forward to next year and of course the Panto!...and the return of an old face! Produced...
Yeeting your office into a flamepit
In this chatty news episode we chat about more Artemis mission shenanigans and how the Russians have wrecked their only human rated launch p...
Icy Telescopes and Martian Lightning
This episode it is a new bananza with discussion of the Thirty Metre Telescope, shenanigans on Mars, asymmetrical supernovae and more troubl...