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Astronomy in the North. In this month’s episode, we talk to Jane Hurley from RAL Space about how the space sector shapes daily life. Then, f...
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Astronomy in the North. In this month’s episode, we talk to Jane Hurley from RAL Space about how the space sector shapes daily life. Then, f...

Dawn of the Very Luminous Dinosaurs. In this month’s episode, we talk to John Weaver about EUCLID, galaxies, and black holes. Then, from our...

Into the Cosmic Void. This month, we have a double cosmology interview special where Sohini and Jamie chat with Marika Asgari about her work...

Blue Skies Ahead! This month, we have an interview with Professor Jonathan Tennyson where he chats to Louisa and Lily about his founding of...

Feeling the Cosmic Pulse. In this month's episode, Jessy and Barbara had the opportunity to speak to Dr Kai Schmitz of the University of Mun...

Reaching the Stars. In this month’s episode, we’ve got lots of exciting interviews. This year, the UK Space Conference was held in Mancheste...

Simons Observatory Special.With Manchester playing a key role within the Simon Observatory’s development, we’ve recorded a special episode d...

From Stars to Cells. In this month’s episode, we interview Dr Mel Ifran about her research adapting machine learning techniques from radio a...

Galaxy Redshifts - A hard thing to nail down. In this month’s episode, we interview Prof Joe Zuntz about his research into clustering galaxi...

Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations. In this month’s episode, we have a double interview special as we get the opportunity to talk t...

Bursting with Mysteries, FRBs. Welcome to our first themed episode of 2025. This month’s episode is everything to do with Fast Radio Bursts,...

Exoplanets from the Archives. In this month’s episode, we have another interview from the archive where Fiona talks to Faith Hawthorn about...

A Blast from the Past. In this month’s episode, we are hearing from a familiar voice as we are joined by now Dr. Ian Harrrison as he talks t...

Cloudy with a Chance of Stars. In this month’s episode, we have two interviews from back in 2022: one with with Eloy de Lera Acedo and anoth...

Same Planet, New Year. This month, we are kicking off the new year with a special interview with Science communicator and climate advocate,...

Shining a Light on Dark Matter. In December's episode, we have delved into the archive for an interview with Grace Lawrence from 2022; she t...

Exploring Exoplanets with JWST. In November's episode, Mel talks to Dr Hannah Wakeford on her work in the field of exoplanets, utilising JWS...

How to build your own radio telescope!. In this episode, Louisa talks to Dr. Danny Jacobs about radio cosmology and the physical challenges...

Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs, and Semantics. In the show this time, Mél Azombo interviews Dr. Ed Gillen about the evolution of stellar and plane...

To celebrate the first images from the Euclid Mission, we are doing a special Euclid episode

The CMB and it's B-modes. In this episode, Kammy and Jonathan interview Dr William Coulton from the Centre of Computational Astronomy in New...

Galaxy evolution: not so sim(ple)ulations.This month, Kammy and Jessy are joined by Dr. Ana Duarte Cabral from Cardiff University, where she...

ABC's of GRB's. In this episode, Soheb interview Dr Gavin Lamb from Liverpool John Moores University and they discuss the exotic nature of g...

Feel the Magnetic Pull. In this episode, Jessy Marin talks to Dr. Kate Pattle about her work studying the involvment of magnetic fields in s...

Blueberries and Peas. In February's episode, Fiona interviews Dr Alex Cameron on his work understanding the properties of early galaxies usi...

Bluedot 2023 Special. In this episode, Fiona Porter travels to Bluedot and interviews Dr. Rebecca Bowler, Sheena Cruickshank, and Jen Gupta....

Hello? Is there anybody there? In the show this time, we talk to Tom Scragg about Pulsar timing arrays [07:43:00 - 00:41:43], Jonathan Wong...

Back in Business. In the show this time, we talk to Bert Hawkins and Matt Morgan about their work at the NRAO [06:32.5-37:49.0], Amy Suddard...

2020 Is Over. In the show this time, we talk to Kaustav Basu about The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect [6:32 - 16:39], Cameron Bogue rounds up the...

A-RIP-bo. In the show this time, we talk to Taïssa Danilovich about the chemistry of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars [05:46 - 27:57], Michael...

Worthy Winners. In the show this time, we talk to Sofia Wallstrom about Studies of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars with TESS [09:03.00-27:14.0...

A Pair of Planets. In the show this time, we talk to Andrew Tkachenko about Stellar astrophysics in the era of big data [04:43.00-29:21.00],...

Sights Scarce Seen. In the show this time, we talk to Rosita Kokotanekova about her work on Jupiter family comets [07:42 - 25:51], George Be...

Breaking Apart. In the show this time, Emma Alexander rounds up the latest news [00:56.96-07:22.00] and we find out what we can see in the M...

Keeping It Simple. In the show this time, we talk to Stewart Eyres about his study of a star that blew up a long time ago [03:48 - 21:30], L...

Kaboom. In the show this time, we talk to Rebecca Bowler about galaxies in the early universe [04:09.0 - 20:25.5], Alice Humpage rounds up t...

A Fond Farewell. In the show this time, we talk to Anais Moller about machine learning to find supernovae for cosmology [04:42.00 - 26:19.20...

Now You See It... In the show this time, we talk to Alexandre Lazarian about magnetic fields in astronomy [07:38 - 30:49], Michael Wright ro...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Novae. In the show this time, we talk to Simon Johnston about Searching for pulsars [32:53.3 - 46:54.0], Laur...

Who's afraid of big, bad numbers? In the show this time, we talk to Bobby Seagull about the mathematics of astronomy and popularising maths...

Baby Black Holes and Blobs. In the show this time, we talk to Connor Smith about searching for blobs in the submillimetre regime [05:53 - 21...

Mission to Transition. In the show this time, we talk to Atsuhisa Ota about his work studying anisotropies in the cosmic microwave backgroun...

Worlds Big and Small. In the show this time, we talk to Sadie Jones about her outreach work at the University of Southampton [03:58 - 14:57]...

Circling in. In the show this time, we talk to Fabio Antonini about modelling gravitational wave sources[08:57 - 26:09], Michael Wright roun...

Small Steps. In the show this time, we talk to Jonathan Pober about his work with 21cm line and understanding galaxy formation and cosmology...

To The Moon and Buck(yballs). In the show this time, we talk to Jess Wade about her work within public engagement with science [05:56.2 - 38...

Milky way mergers, moon mining and mice. In the show this time, we talk to Stephane Corbel about the Nancay observatory [09:01 - 36:19], Emm...

Seeing the Invisible. In the show this time, we talk to Syksy Rasanen about black holes as dark matter candidates and the future of scientif...

Chasing the horizon. In the show this time, we talk to Leen Decin about the ATOMIUM project [25:50 - 41:32], Tana Joseph tells us about blac...

Asteroids, Aliens and All That. In the show this time, we talk to Matt Smith about dusty star formation in nearby galaxies [07:09 - 17:22],...