Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage
By Andrew Prestage
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Episodes: 93
RoVe
Apr 1, 2024
I love this podcast! it's always interesting, fun, and I love the accent of the host.
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It's cosmology in a cup! - Cosmic Coffee Time is bite sized podcasts making sense of space, astronomy, life, and the universe, best enjoyed with a coffee. A down to earth look at what's up there, and it's just for you spacefans. Grab a coffee and see where in the universe we go this time. Follow on Twitter @CosmicCoffTime
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#93 What can we do to stop another dinosaur extinction asteroid smashing into Earth?
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May 31, 2026 |
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#92 Particle physicist and author Dr. Sarah Alam Malik joins us to explore the history of astronomy and the universe. Her new book A Brief History of the Universe takes us from ancient astronomers to modern physics, and the future of the cosmos.
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May 19, 2026 |
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#91 What’s next for the Artemis program? Artemis 2 was incredible, but let’s take a look at what Artemis 3 & 4 will achieve in the next couple of years. (It’s amazing!)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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#90 An Australian backyard astronomer helped NASA find 100 planets! Astronomy award winner Chris Stockdale used his home observatory in Churchill, Victoria to track distant stars and find the planets in their orbit. What a chat.
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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#89 Rogue planets! It's possible that most planets in our galaxy don't orbit a star, like we do with our sun. Rogue planets float through interstellar space in the cold darkness. How do they form? And how do we find a planet at interstellar distances?
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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#88 Is the Universe Infinite? It’s almost an instinctive question, but maybe it’s unknowable.
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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#87 The next crewed Moon mission is ready for launch. Let’s preview the historic Artemis II flight, sending humans to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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#86 We all love the Moon, but it hasn’t always been there. Where did it come from, and when did that happen?
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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#85 Skywatch December 2025. Geminid Meteor Shower, Supermoon vs. Pleiades and Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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#84 Before exoplanets comes a protoplanetary disc, we’ve found heavy water in one of these. What does this mean for the history of planetary water?
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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#83 Two black holes collided a billion light years away, we detected it on Earth just this year, and it was the biggest ever recorded.
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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#82 Apollo-Soyuz at 50! It’s been a half century since this incredible project. The first international space mission.
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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#81 After centuries of Earth’s rotation slowing down, it’s now speeding up and making the days shorter. But you’d never notice.
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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#80 Plants on the Moon. An Australian team of biologists and engineers are really sending a mini greenhouse to the Moon.
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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#79 Launched in 1972 for Venus, Kosmos 482 failed to escape Earth orbit — and finally returned in May 2025, after 53 years in space
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May 31, 2025 |
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#78 The Andromeda Galaxy is a cosmic neighbour that’s going to collide with our Milky Way Galaxy. Should we panic?
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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#77 The stranded astronauts are finally home after 9 months in space. Let’s see how Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore got home
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#76 The Apollo program was the high point of the space age. From test flights, to lunar landings and the moon buggies
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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#75 NASA's Project Gemini was a spectacular program that bridged the gap from Project Mercury to Apollo. Gemini developed the incredible technology and techniques needed for the lunar program
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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#74 At the beginning of the space race, Project Mercury was NASA’s first human crewed spaceflight program, and it was a significant step on the road to the moon. Let’s dive into the vault and check it out.
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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#73 NASA’s Project Mercury Monument has turned 60! It’s a tribute to America's first attempt at human space flight. The monument has a time capsule that is scheduled to stay sealed for 500 years! Let’s check out what's inside.
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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#72 The space pioneers from Earth weren’t humans, what? That’s right, long before humans launched into space, there were a whole team of dogs, monkeys, chimps, insects and more, who rode rockets to space. All in the name of research.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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#71 Earth has a new moon! For about the next 8 weeks... Asteroid 2024 PT5 will be captured by Earth's gravity before returning to its normal solar orbit.
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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#70 The Boeing Starliner capsule's first crewed test flight has left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. What went wrong, and how are they going to get home?
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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#69 NASA's Curiosity rover has just made the most incredible discovery of its 12 years on Mars. By running over a rock!
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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#68 A piece of space history was written this month, a sample from the far side of the moon! Let's check out the Chang'e 6 lunar lander and it's history-making mission.
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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#67 OSIRIS-REx NASA mission scientist Greg Brennecka brings us up to date on the incredible early findings from the Bennu asteroid sample.
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May 31, 2024 |
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#66 Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an incredible place, but could anything live there? Canadian Astrobiologist Dr Catherine Neish led a study on Titan’s habitability. She joins us for a fascinating chat about what she found.
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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#65 Spaghettification? This really is a thing. It happens if you get too close to a black hole, but what is it? And how did it get that name?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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#64 The Odysseus Moon Lander. The first private moon lander has touched down, but is it still ok?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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#63 Space Ethics. How do we navigate the ethical challenges of our journey beyond Earth?
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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#62 The iconic Earthrise photograph. Is this the most influential picture from the Apollo era?
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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#61 Will Saturn’s rings really disappear from view in 2025? What’s going on with that?
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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#60 Astrophotography. It's photography with a completely different technique. How do the pros do it, and what can I do with my smartphone?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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#59 India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land in the south polar region of the moon. Let's see why the this incredible spacecraft and rover could be instrumental for the future of human spaceflight.
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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#58 Resident space rock expert Greg Brennecka is back to preview the return to Earth of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a sample of asteroid Bennu.
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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#57 Space junk! Most of the human made objects orbiting Earth aren’t functional. Some of them are incredible objects that have outlasted their mission durations by years. How will these fascinating relics affect future spaceflight?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#56 The June solstice, it defines the Arctic circle, the Tropic of Cancer and the Antarctic circle. It has the longest daylight hours in the northern hemisphere, shortest in the southern. But why do those things happen on one day every year?
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#55 The spectacular Aurora Borealis and its southern partner Aurora Australis. The astronomical light show is such a cool thing to see, but its science was a mystery until the 20th century.
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May 31, 2023 |
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#54 NASA’s VERITAS mission to Venus. There’s some good news, there’s some bad news and there’s one incredible discovery hidden for thirty years.
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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#53 The Hayabusa2 Asteroid Ryugu sample return mission. Space rock expert Greg Brennecka joins us for an incredible up-close look at real life asteroid material.
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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#52 Hundreds of years before GPS there was celestial navigation. Let's see how astronomy and some basic equipment kept old time mariners on course.
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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#51 NASA's astronaut class of 1978. We have a compelling chat with Meredith Bagby about this ground breaking group of space shuttle astronauts, and her fascinating book The New Guys
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#50 We all love GPS, but what space science makes it work?
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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#49 The new Mars meteorite impact. NASA Insight has detected a new meteorite impact on Mars! Meteorite expert Greg Brennecka returns to talk about this breathtaking new discovery.
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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#48 Caroline Herschel - So much more than just the sister of the guy who discovered Uranus
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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#47 Have you ever heard of moonquakes? Let's take a look at how different they are from earthquakes.
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#46 Meteorite expert Greg Brennecka returns to the podcast to talk about the Nadir crater. An exciting new discovery that could be a 66 million year old meteorite impact.
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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#45 NASA's Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. A drone is going to fly in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Incredible!
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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#44 About that black hole at the centre of our galaxy... Now we've got a picture! Sagittarius A*
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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#43 Let's take a look at Sunspots. What are those darker spots on the surface of the sun?
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May 31, 2022 |
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#42 Pulsars. What are these incredible objects and what makes them pulse?
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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#41 Galileo. His observations in 1610 changed a lot of what we knew about astronomy. Let's see what he found.
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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#40 Binary stars. Would you believe that most of the stars we see aren't just single stars? Incredible I know!
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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#39 Meteorites! We meet with noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka to talk meteorites, the origins of life on Earth, and his new book 'Impact'
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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#38 The amazing Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. Let's take a look at the Mars 2020 project
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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#37 What's in that unexpected gap between Mars and Jupiter? Let's take a look at the asteroid belt - a fascinating element of our solar system
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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#36 The Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the furthest travelled objects ever made by humans. What did they find on the grand tour of the solar system? And where are they now?
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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#35 Planet Neptune. The most distant major planet in our solar system and the first to be located by mathematical calculations. Let's take a look.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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#34 Planet Uranus. Is that how you say it? The ice giant that was the first planet that needed to be 'discovered'.
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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#33 Planet Jupiter. It's more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined and it's a gas giant. What makes Jupiter different from the rocky terrestrial planets, and does it really have planetary rings?
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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#32 Kate the Chemist special. We meet with Dr. Kate Biberdorf to talk STEM, TV's Ice Road Truckers, and her new book It's Elemental
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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#31 A conversation with Earl Swift about NASA's lunar rovers and his new book - Across the Airless Wilds
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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#30 Planet Mars. Lets take a look at the friendliest planet beyond Earth and some of the cool spacecraft that have been there
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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#29 Planet Earth. Let's take a look at our home - as a planet, in a solar system.
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May 31, 2021 |
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#28 Planet Venus. It's Earth's twin - but somehow remains mysterious. Let's take a look.
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#27 Planet Mercury normally keeps a low profile, but let's take a closer look at the first planet from the sun.
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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#26 What's the matter? Really, what is the matter that makes up 80% of the mass of the universe but can't be observed directly. The strange story of dark matter
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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#25 A conversation with David W. Brown about his new book The Mission, and Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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#24 What went wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope?
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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#23 Meteors and meteorites, what are they and why do they burn up?
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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#22 The Sun. How does it it produce so much energy? And what does the future hold?
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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#21 Let's take a look at the Moon part 5 - Artemis and the future of human Moon exploration
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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#20 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 4
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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#19 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 3
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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#18 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 2
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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#17 Let's take a look at the Moon - part 1
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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#16 The incredible tale of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. A special first birthday quadruple episode.
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May 31, 2020 |
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#15 So are we really alone in the Universe? Where is everyone? And what are we doing to find extraterrestrial life?
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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#14 So an asteroid caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs? Let's find the crater!
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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#13 Comets? I know Halley's, but what other cool comet stuff should I know?
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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#12 Proving Einstein's relativity in outback Australia. A cracking tale of spacebending gravity
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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#11 So there are planets orbiting the stars? Tell me more about exoplanets!
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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#10 How cool is Saturn. I mean really.
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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#9 Hey tell me about the International Space Station
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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#8 So Earth's magnetic field will make my compass needle point south one day?
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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#7 A black hole sounds pretty weird
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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#4 You've got to love an eclipse of the sun
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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#5 NASA Deep Space Communication Network
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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#6 Why isn't Pluto a planet any more?
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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#2 Big bang and the bookends of the universe
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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#3 What's with leap years anyway?
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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#1 How much space is in space?
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Jun 16, 2019 |