I hope you can join us on what will be the last official episode of Space Nuts for this calendar year. And my name is Andrew Dunkley, of course, the host, and joining me will be Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. Fred, what are we going to do to finish off this 2022? Well, we've got some great stories, actually. It looks as though there's a mystery being solved that has hung around for decades regarding the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, which we see from down here in the Southern...
Dec 22, 2022•47 min•Ep. 336
Thanks for joining us. This is Space Nuts where we talk astronomy and space science. My name is Andrew Dunkley, your host, and this is an all-question episode. Your questions and our answers. Well, almost. We'll be hearing about spin launch. Somebody's not so much sent a question in, but they've been there and wanted to tell us about it. But questions about the radial velocity of stars, negative gravity, dark matter, and the Casimir effect, and much, much more. Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stu...
Dec 15, 2022•49 min•Ep. 335
Thanks for joining us on Space Nuts, the podcast about astronomy and space science also heard on community radio across Australia. My name is Andrew Dunkley, your host. And coming up on this edition, we're going to be looking at the Square Kilometre Array. And the reason is because you can actually look at it because they've started building the thing. Also, some interesting findings by the James Webb Space Telescope. Mars appears to be active, much more active than we would have considered. Som...
Dec 08, 2022•49 min•Ep. 334
We've got a bunch of really interesting and quite provocative stories this week. A story about how volcanism might have shaped the atmosphere of the planet Venus. And another story about something we’ve never talked about and that is filaments in the centers of galaxies. I used to think of a filament as being something that lit up a light bulb although they don't have that anymore, but these are filaments of hot gas which have been detected and are really quite mysterious. And we'll answer quest...
Dec 01, 2022•46 min•Ep. 333
The James Webb Space Telescope has analyzed the atmosphere of an exoplanet and found astonishing new evidence of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. In this episode, you will learn: 1. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered new atmospheric compositions on the exoplanet Wasp-39b, including sulfur dioxide, potassium, and carbon monoxide. 2. The shape of our galaxy may be more complicated than previously thought, with a halo of stars and other objects surrounding the disk of sta...
Nov 24, 2022•47 min•Ep. 332
Coming up on this edition, We will be talking at last about the launch of Artemis 1, which is just fabulous news. And we'll talk about that mission. On the other side of the coin, some documentary makers have discovered a chunk of the Challenger shuttle in the Atlantic Ocean, which is a somber reminder of tragedies past. And astronomers have found a black hole. And if you open your door, there it is. It's fairly close to earth. Plus audience questions coming up today, about spin launch the Barna...
Nov 17, 2022•45 min•Ep. 331
We've got an episode that divides by five. So, it means it's all questions. And we've got a range of questions today, which cover the whole universe, basically. Several about the moon, which is a great one because by chance today there is an eclipse of the moon. But they range from that out to vertical particles in the universe and the origin of dark matter. Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 330 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Download from your favorite po...
Nov 10, 2022•43 min•Ep. 330
In this episode we're going to revisit Andrew’s favorite planet again with this continuing debate about whether there is liquid water underneath Mars' South polar ice cap that's taken a new turn, there is more news to talk about, which is very interesting. Plus, we look at some really exciting observations of what you might call prebiotic molecules, the kind of molecules that make up the building blocks of life, how they are affected by nearby black holes. Worked that one out. Plus listener ques...
Nov 03, 2022•45 min•Ep. 329
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 328 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley In this episode, we're going to visit Jupiter's moon Europa because there's new stuff from Europa, we've got new images which have come back from a flyby by the Juno spacecraft, plus some work about the plumes of ice that might come out of the surface of Europa. Then we're going to go to the distant universe to talk about gravitational lenses with some new work that has been done here in ...
Oct 27, 2022•43 min•Ep. 328
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 327 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley We have a story about what you can learn from beads, tiny beads of glass in the soil of the moon which have been brought back by the Changing Five spacecraft. We also have a story about the possible detection of the aftermath of the first stars in the universe. We'll also be taking some audience questions. One about antimatter, and I love this one a hypothetical - fishing in a black hole....
Oct 20, 2022•40 min•Ep. 327
Space Nuts Episode 326 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley This is episode 326 of Space Nuts podcast, a bumper action packed episode yet again. We're going to talk about a new map of 56,000 galaxies, which is really interesting, and hopefully we'll learn something quite new about the universe from that. And we're also going to talk about Saturn's moon Enceladus, which you and I have spoken about many times before. Maybe there are the right minerals for living organisms in the ocean, ...
Oct 13, 2022•44 min•Ep. 326
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 325 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley This is episode 325 of Space Nuts podcast, and we've got a lot to talk about. In fact, the audience is going to do the talking because we're dedicating the whole show to questions. So we've got questions about Artemis 1, dark matter, flickering stars, Spacetime holes, gravity and terraforming Venus. Which will be interesting because it's a hot bed that place a very, very, nasty place if y...
Oct 06, 2022•47 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 324 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley I hope you can join us on the very next episode, because it's very exciting. We are going to do a follow up on the DART mission with one of our dedicated listeners, Marie-Claire Mercier. Hi, Marie Claire. Thanks for joining us, by the way. Marie-Claire: Thank you. Thank you for sending the invite. Andrew: And we've got other things to talk about, too. Fred, what's going on? Fred: Exciting...
Sep 29, 2022•52 min
Space Nuts 323 Show Notes September 22, 2022 Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 323 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Coming up, we're going to be looking at the 100th anniversary of a major event in astronomy and space science involving Einstein, which Fred knows everything about because he's giving a lecture on it tonight. We're also going to talk about Mars because there's been some interesting findings on Mars and it's all to do with vibrations. And listen...
Sep 22, 2022•44 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 322 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. Andrew Dunkley here from the Space Nuts podcast. We've got the next episode. coming up and to tell us what's going to be on episode 322, Astronomer at Large. Fred Watson. Fred: Hot off the press stories, as always. We've got a new mineral that has been discovered on the Moon by Chinese scientists which sounds really interesting. And we've got some less than good news,...
Sep 15, 2022•42 min
Space Nuts Episode 321 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. My name is Andrew Dunkley, the host of the Space Nuts podcast and joining me is Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What’s on this episode Fred? Fred: Magical episode as always, Andrew. We've got, the first exoplanet imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. Really exciting to actually see directly the image of a planet for the first time. And we're going to talk about that well known asteroid imp...
Sep 08, 2022•43 min
Have you checked out Andrew's new podcast yet? Here's a sample episode to get you started. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocketcasts, iHeartRadio and more. You can also stream all episodes from the Space Nuts website...just visit https://spacenuts.io Enjoy! Astronomy Daily – The Podcast Show Notes S01E10 Astronomy Daily – The Podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: h...
Sep 07, 2022•11 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 320 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello once again. I'm Andrew Dunkley, the host of Space Nuts, and every week we talk astronomy and space science with Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer at large. Hi, Fred. What are we talking about this week? Fred: We've got a bumper show, as always, starting with what went wrong with Artemis One. We might just do a quick rundown on that. And then we've got, because it's episode 3...
Sep 01, 2022•51 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 319 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. I'm Andrew Dunkley from the Space Nuts podcast, hoping you can join us on this episode. And my partner in crime is Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer at Large. Hi, Fred. What's coming up on episode three one nine? Fred: We've got some great stuff as always, Andrew. We're going to ask the question, did the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs have a companion object th...
Aug 25, 2022•53 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 318 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hi there. Andrew Dunkley here from the Space Nuts podcast. Hope you can join us for episode 318. What are we going to be talking about, Fred? Fred: We're going to talk about the discovery of a moon of an asteroid. And it's an important asteroid because this one is going to be visited by the Lucy spacecraft in the late 2020s. We're also going to talk about upside down snow falling,...
Aug 18, 2022•45 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 317 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hi, there. Thanks for joining us. Well, I hope you do - for episode 317 of Space Nuts the podcast. I'm Andrew Dunkley, your host, and joining me every week is Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What are we talking about this week, Fred? Fred: Action Pack show as always, Andrew. We're going to talk about more observations that suggest that dark matter is not what we think ...
Aug 11, 2022•44 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 316 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello there. My name is Andrew Dunkley the host of the Space Nuts podcast, where every week we talk astronomy and space science. And coming up soon will be episode 316. And joining me will be Professor Fred Watson. Astronomer at large. Hi, Fred. What's on the next episode. Fred: We're going to talk about the shortest day on record. There you are. That's an enticing one. Then we've...
Aug 04, 2022•47 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 315 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. Andrew Dunkley here from the Space Nuts podcast. Hope you’re well, and I hope you can join us on the next episode, episode 315, because we’ve got a lot to talk about. And joining me will be Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What's coming up? Fred: It we've got a bumper packed show for listeners this week. As always. Going to start off by talking about a bran...
Jul 28, 2022•45 min
Space Nuts Episode 314 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello once again. Andrew Dunkley here from the Space Nuts podcast. Hope you can join us on episode 314, where I'll be joined by Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large, to talk astronomy and space science. What's coming up on 314 Fred. Fred: Great news. We're going to look at the rest of the images that the James Webb telescope has sent back, those fantastic images of nebulae and galaxies, as well as a new one of t...
Jul 21, 2022•42 min
Space Nuts Episode 313 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello. Andrew Dunkley here from Space Nuts. Hope you can join us on episode 313 where I'll be joined by none other than the good Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. Fred. What's on this edition. Fred: The big story of the moment, which is the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. We're going to cover that in a little bit of detail. We're going to talk about a new telescope that's just starting to b...
Jul 14, 2022•38 min
Space Nuts Episode 312 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello, Andrew Dunkley here from the Space Nuts podcast. And joining me every week is Professor Fred Watson astronomer at large. What's coming up Fred on episode 312. Fred: Great stuff. Andrew, we're going to Mars again this week, to talk about a proposed new method of exploring the atmosphere of Mars, which I think is very, very exciting…and, and I hope to see it happening down the track. And we're gonna celebrate the...
Jul 07, 2022•56 min
Space Nuts 311 Show Notes June 30, 2022 Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 311 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello there. My name is Andrew Dunkley from the Space Nuts podcast, where we talk astronomy and space science. And every week, I'm joined by Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What's coming up on episode three 11, Fred? Fred: We've got a fun packed show this week. We're going to celebrate World Asteroid Day that comes up tomorrow ou...
Jun 30, 2022•43 min
Space Nuts Episode 310 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello there. My name is Andrew Dunkley from the Space Nuts podcast, where we talk astronomy and space science. And every week, I'm joined by Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What's coming up on episode 310, Fred? Fred: Thank you, Andrew. Episode 310, because it's divisible by five, is actually an all questions episode. And today we've got a huge pile of questions on topics as diverse as and I've got to read...
Jun 23, 2022•56 min•Ep. 310
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 309 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hi there. Andrew Dunkley here, the host of the Space Nuts podcast. Hope you can join us on this episode because we got a lot to talk about. And joining me, as always, will be Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What's coming up, Fred? Fred: Absolutely packed news edition of Space Nuts. We're going to talk about micrometeoroid that dinged the James Webb Space Telescope. We'...
Jun 16, 2022•45 min
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 308 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley •Sonification – the beautiful sounds of our Universe. To hear more and find out more about the project visit https://chandra.harvard.edu/sound/ •The orbit of Earth and how it’s affected our ice sheets •Listener questions – We have questions on gravitational waves, the expansion of the Universe and the unknown objects we keep looking for. Fred has all the answers… Sponsor Links: NordVPN – ...
Jun 09, 2022•46 min
