Radio Astronomy

By BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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Episodes: 273

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The weekly astronomy podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Episode Date
Star Diary: The Lyrid Meteor shower reaches its peak (22 to 28 April 2024)
Apr 20, 2024
Water found around a distant star
Apr 18, 2024
Star Diary: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches its brightest (15 to 21 April 2024)
Apr 13, 2024
Star Diary: The Great American Eclipse arrives (8 to 14 April)
Apr 06, 2024
Star Diary: Comet shine during the new Moon (1 to 7 April)
Mar 31, 2024
Star Diary: The Comet and the Coathanger (25 to 31 March)
Mar 24, 2024
Why do people believe in UFOs?
Mar 22, 2024
Star Diary 18 to 24 March 2024
Mar 17, 2024
Star Diary 11 to 17 March 2024
Mar 10, 2024
Star Diary 4 to 10 March 2024
Mar 03, 2024
Star Diary 26 February to 3 March 2024
Feb 25, 2024
Star Diary 19 to 25 February 2024
Feb 18, 2024
How x-rays unlock the secrets of the Universe
Feb 16, 2024
Star Diary 12 to 18 February 2024
Feb 11, 2024
Star Diary 5 to 11 February 2024
Feb 04, 2024
Star Diary 29 January to 4 February 2024
Jan 28, 2024
Star Diary 22 to 28 January 2024
Jan 21, 2024
How Asteroid Bennu could unlock the secrets of the Solar System
Jan 19, 2024
Star Diary 15 to 21 January 2024
Jan 14, 2024
Star Diary 8 to 14 January 2024
Jan 07, 2024
Star Diary 1 to 7 January 2024
Dec 31, 2023
Star Diary, 25 to 31 December 2023
Dec 24, 2023
Star Diary, 18 to 24 December 2023
Dec 17, 2023
Star Diary, 11 to 17 December 2023
Dec 10, 2023
Star Diary, 4 to 10 December 2023
Dec 03, 2023
Moonshot success, with astronaut Mike Massimino
Dec 01, 2023
Star Diary, 27 November to 3 December 2023
Nov 26, 2023
Star Diary, 20 to 26 November 2023
Nov 19, 2023
Star Diary, 13 to 19 November 2023
Nov 12, 2023
Star Diary, 6 to 12 November 2023
Nov 05, 2023
Star Diary, 30 October to 5 November 2023
Oct 28, 2023
Star Diary, 23 to 29 October 2023
Oct 21, 2023
Interview: The Search for Alien Life
Oct 19, 2023
Star Diary, 16 to 22 October 2023
Oct 14, 2023
How can we see the heat of the Big Bang?
Oct 10, 2023
Star Diary, 9 to 15 October 2023
Oct 07, 2023
Star Diary, 2 to 8 October 2023
Sep 30, 2023
Star Diary, 25 September to 1 October 2023
Sep 23, 2023
Star Diary: 18 to 24 September 2023
Sep 16, 2023
Exploring a magnetic Solar System
Sep 14, 2023
Star Diary, 11 to 17 September 2023
Sep 09, 2023
Star Diary, 4 to 10 September 2023
Sep 02, 2023
Star Dairy, 28 August to 3 September , 2023
Aug 26, 2023
Star Dairy, 21 to 27 August, 2023
Aug 19, 2023
Star Diary, 14 to 20 August
Aug 12, 2023
Star Diary, 7 to 13 August
Aug 05, 2023
Star Diary, 31 July to 6 August
Jul 29, 2023
Hunting down strange signals with humans and machines.
Jul 25, 2023
Star Diary, 24 to 30 July
Jul 22, 2023
Interview: Spaceflight entrepreneur Mishaal Ashemimry
Jul 20, 2023
Star Diary, 17 to 23 July
Jul 15, 2023
Star Diary, 10 to 16 July, 2023
Jul 08, 2023
Detecting spacetime ripples of supermassive black holes
Jul 04, 2023
Star Diary, 3rd to 9th of July, 2023
Jul 01, 2023
Star Diary, 26 June to 2 July, 2023
Jun 24, 2023
Star Diary, 19 to 25 June, 2023
Jun 17, 2023
The search for Earth 2.0
Jun 15, 2023
Star Diary, 11 to 18 June, 2023
Jun 10, 2023
Star Diary, 5 to 11 June, 2023
Jun 03, 2023
Star Diary, 29 May to 4 June, 2023
May 27, 2023
Star Diary, 22 to 28 May, 2023
May 22, 2023
Interview: Space Shuttle astronaut Kathy Sullivan
May 18, 2023
Star Diary, 15 to 23 May, 2023
May 13, 2023
Star Diary, 8 to 14 May, 2023
May 06, 2023
Star Diary, 1 to 7 May, 2023
Apr 29, 2023
Star Diary, 24 to 30 April 2023
Apr 22, 2023
Interview: Comet Madness
Apr 20, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 17 to 23 April
Apr 15, 2023
Humans Of Space: Peter Visscher
Apr 09, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 10 to 16 April
Apr 08, 2023
Interview: From pop star to Star City with Lance Bass
Apr 02, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 3 to 9 April
Apr 01, 2023
Humans Of Space: Aaron Yung
Mar 26, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 27 March to 2 April
Mar 26, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 20 to 26 March
Mar 19, 2023
Black holes and bending spacetime
Mar 17, 2023
Humans Of Space: Nicole Stott
Mar 13, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 13 to 19 March, 2023
Mar 12, 2023
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, 6th March to 12th March 2023
Mar 05, 2023
Humans Of Space: Jeff Hoffman
Feb 27, 2023
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, 27 February to 5 March 2023
Feb 26, 2023
Observing the 850-year-old aftermath of colliding stars
Feb 24, 2023
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, 20 to 26 February 2023
Feb 19, 2023
Humans Of Space: James L. Green
Feb 13, 2023
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, 13 to 19 February 2023
Feb 12, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 6 to 12 February 2023
Feb 05, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 30 January to 5 February 2023
Jan 29, 2023
Interview: Is interstellar travel possible?
Jan 23, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 23 to 29 January 2023
Jan 22, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 16 to 22 January 2023
Jan 15, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 9 to 15 January 2023
Jan 08, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 2 to 8 January, 2023
Jan 01, 2023
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 26 Dec '22 to 1 Jan '23
Dec 25, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 19 to 25 September 2022
Dec 18, 2022
What would happen if we made contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence?
Dec 17, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 12 to 18 December 2022
Dec 11, 2022
Interview: Apollo 17 student ambassador Dermot Gethings
Dec 07, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 5 to 11 December 2022
Dec 04, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 28 November to 4 December 2022
Nov 27, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 21 to 27 November 2022
Nov 20, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 14 to 20 November 2022
Nov 13, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 7 to 13 November 2022
Nov 07, 2022
Amazing cosmic facts
Nov 04, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 31 October to 6 November2022
Oct 30, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 24 to 30 October 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Piecing together the history of the Universe
Oct 23, 2022
Webb Telescope and the secrets of the Solar System
Oct 20, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 17 to 23 October 2022
Oct 16, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 10 to 16 October 2022
Oct 09, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 3 to 9 October 2022
Oct 02, 2022
Interview: A Brief History of Black Holes
Sep 28, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 26 September to 2 October 2022
Sep 25, 2022
Interview: NASA's plan to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid
Sep 23, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 19 to 25 September 2022
Sep 18, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 12 to 18 September 2022
Sep 11, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 5 to 11 September, 2022
Sep 04, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 29 August to 4 September
Aug 28, 2022
Interview: How JWST observes the Universe
Aug 26, 2022
Interview: How JWST will observe exoplanets
Aug 22, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 22 to 28 August 2022
Aug 21, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 15 to 21 August 2022
Aug 14, 2022
Interview: Observing the Solar System in x-ray
Aug 10, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 8 to 14 August
Aug 07, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 1st to 7th August
Jul 31, 2022
Bluedot 2022 | Why study asteroids?
Jul 29, 2022
Bluedot 2022 | A new era for human spaceflight?
Jul 28, 2022
Bluedot 2022 | What is space weather?
Jul 27, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 25 to 31 July
Jul 24, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 18 to 24 July
Jul 17, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 11 to 17 July 2022
Jul 10, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 4 to 10 July
Jul 03, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 27 June to 3 July
Jun 26, 2022
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Jun 24, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 20 to 26 June
Jun 19, 2022
Space Women: Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Jun 15, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 13 to 19 June
Jun 12, 2022
Star Diary: What's in the night sky from 6 to 12 June
Jun 05, 2022
Star Diary: What's in the night sky from 30 May to 5 June
May 27, 2022
What is dark energy?
May 27, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 23 to 29 May 2022
May 22, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 16 to 22 May 2022
May 15, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 9 to 15 May 2022
May 08, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 2 to 8 May 2022
May 01, 2022
Hubble, James Webb and life beyond Earth
Apr 29, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 25 April to 1 May 2022
Apr 24, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 18 to 24 April 2022
Apr 18, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 11 to 17 April 2022
Apr 11, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 4 to 10 April 2022
Apr 04, 2022
What happens if someone dies in space?
Apr 01, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 28 March to 3 April 2022
Mar 28, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, March 2022
Feb 28, 2022
Interview: The science of exploding stars
Feb 22, 2022
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, February 2022
Jan 29, 2022
Astronomy events of the 21st Century
Jan 19, 2022
Interview: Astrobiologist Nicol Caplin
Dec 30, 2021
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, January 2022
Dec 23, 2021
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
Dec 20, 2021
Interview: Astronaut Nicole Stott
Dec 02, 2021
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, December 2021
Nov 25, 2021
Deflecting asteroids with NASA's DART mission
Nov 18, 2021
Interview: How to see the Northern Lights
Nov 08, 2021
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, November 2021
Oct 31, 2021
Interview: Astronaut Nora Al Matrooshi
Oct 24, 2021
Remembering Rosetta
Oct 21, 2021
Interview: Natalie Starkey talks space volcanoes
Oct 07, 2021
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, October 2021
Sep 29, 2021
Interview: UK astronaut Tim Peake
Sep 24, 2021
Perseverance: 200 sols on Mars
Sep 17, 2021
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, September 2021
Aug 26, 2021
Interview: The largest radio telescope in the world
Aug 19, 2021
Telescopes that changed astronomy
Aug 12, 2021
Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, August 2021
Jul 29, 2021
Interview: How to make a Universe from scratch
Jul 23, 2021
Jupiter Special: a celebration of the gas giant
Jul 19, 2021
Interview: Cosmic Collisions
Jul 01, 2021
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, July 2021
Jun 26, 2021
Apollo 15's 50th anniversary
Jun 21, 2021
Interview: solar weather expert, Mathew Owens
Jun 14, 2021
Interview: Emily Lakdawalla talks Mars exploration
Jun 04, 2021
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, June 2021
May 26, 2021
20 years of NASA's WMAP mission
May 20, 2021
Interview: How to photograph a black hole
May 15, 2021
Interview: Andy Weir, author of The Martian
May 06, 2021
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, May 2021
Apr 30, 2021
Interview: Genetic engineering for spaceflight
Apr 28, 2021
The Disordered Cosmos
Apr 25, 2021
How the Great Debate changed astronomy forever
Apr 23, 2021
Interview: Light pollution from satellites
Apr 19, 2021
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, April 2021
Mar 31, 2021
Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space
Mar 25, 2021
Interview: How to photograph an exoplanet
Mar 22, 2021
How Uranus's rings were discovered
Mar 13, 2021
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, March 2021
Feb 27, 2021
Interview: How SPHEREx will track the history of the Universe
Feb 23, 2021
OSIRIS-Rex and the Asteroid belt
Feb 18, 2021
Interview: The Emirates Mars Mission with Hessa Al Matroushi
Feb 08, 2021
Star Diary: What's in the night sky, February 2021
Jan 30, 2021
2021: A new year for astronomy and spaceflight
Jan 22, 2021
Interview: Kellie Gerardi on the future of spaceflight
Jan 19, 2021
2020's spaceflight and astronomy highlights
Dec 17, 2020
Interview: NASA astronaut Terry Virts
Dec 12, 2020
A history of Palomar Observatory
Dec 09, 2020
What next for New Horizons?
Nov 20, 2020
Is there life beyond Earth?
Nov 17, 2020
What's a black hole? Interview with astrophysicist Janna Levin
Nov 06, 2020
Interview: NASA astronaut Jeff Williams
Oct 30, 2020
20 years of the International Space Station
Oct 22, 2020
Interview: Getting The Right Stuff right
Oct 09, 2020
Interview: Stuart Clark on the history of astronomy
Oct 02, 2020
ASTHROS: the stratospheric balloon observatory
Sep 25, 2020
Galaxies
Sep 19, 2020
Interview: Life on Venus?
Sep 18, 2020
Interview: Libby Jackson on the history of human spaceflight
Sep 03, 2020
The life and death of stars
Aug 13, 2020
Trident: a new mission to explore Neptune's moon Triton
Aug 10, 2020
The End of Everything: interview with US cosmologist Katie Mack
Jul 25, 2020
The edge of the Solar System
Jul 16, 2020
Cluster Special: marking 20 years of the European solar mission
Jul 14, 2020
Deflecting asteroids with DART and Hera
Jun 19, 2020
CHEOPS: Interview with exoplanet scientist Kate Isaak
Jun 10, 2020
Venus special: farewell to the evening star
May 21, 2020
WFIRST: a new era for exoplanet hunting
May 16, 2020
Hubble at 30: how the space telescope changed astronomy forever
Apr 23, 2020
Apollo 13 special: interview with Mission Control's Jerry Woodfill
Apr 09, 2020
Apollo 13 special: how astronauts and Mission Control averted disaster
Mar 25, 2020
Day Eight – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 09, 2020
Day Seven – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 08, 2020
Day Six – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 07, 2020
Day Five – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 06, 2020
Day Four – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 05, 2020
Day Three – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 04, 2020
Day Two – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 03, 2020
Day One – Back Garden Astronomy Week: The Moon
Mar 02, 2020
Trailer: Back Garden Astronomy Week special series
Feb 28, 2020
Europe in space: the next decade
Feb 20, 2020
The story of the BBC’s Horizon programme
Feb 14, 2020
Pluto at 90: how Clyde Tombaugh discovered a new world
Jan 25, 2020
The biggest stories of 2019 and top tips for stargazing beginners
Dec 19, 2019
The biggest space missions launching in 2020
Nov 21, 2019
A look at UCL Observatory's new 80cm Perren telescope
Nov 11, 2019
Planetarium special
Nov 01, 2019
Apollo 12, volcanic moons and cannibal galaxies
Oct 16, 2019
Jim Al-Khalili, OSIRIS REx, IIAPY 2019, tardigrades on the Moon
Sep 13, 2019
Chasing comets, Indian lunar ambitions, Juno at Jupiter
Aug 19, 2019
Bluedot Festival 2019 special
Jul 22, 2019
Apollo 11: 50th anniversary special
Jul 15, 2019
Talking moonwalkers with Andrew Smith
Jun 20, 2019
Touring the Solar System
May 23, 2019
Black holes, asteroid bombs and the solar cycle
Apr 18, 2019
Kielder Observatory Special
Apr 15, 2019
Light pollution, Mars rovers and Jupiter's storms
Mar 21, 2019
Planet 9 in doubt, a beautiful Beehive and an aurora adventure
Feb 25, 2019
New Horizons and event horizons
Jan 23, 2019
Lunar eclipses, 2019’s space missions and green stars
Dec 20, 2018
2018 in review and scientific observations of Mars
Nov 21, 2018
Ice on the Moon, Apollo 7 and advice for new astronomers
Sep 24, 2018
NASA's Dawn mission, Holst’s Planets and water on Mars
Jul 27, 2018
Bluedot Festival 2018 special
Jul 27, 2018
Meteor showers and space rocks that fall to Earth
Jul 23, 2018
The Sun, a danger to life on Earth?
Jun 22, 2018
The mission to map the Milky Way
May 21, 2018
Sifting through Mars's sediment with a planetary geologist
Apr 20, 2018
Bowie, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Mar 29, 2018
Christmas Special: Tales from 2017
Dec 20, 2017
International Astronomy Show 2017 Special
Oct 19, 2017
Radio Astronomy Shorts - Episode 1: Dava Sobel
Aug 21, 2017
Radio Astronomy: Bluedot Festival 2017 Special
Jul 21, 2017
Episode 6: The 2016 retrospective
Dec 23, 2016
Episode 5: So long, Schiaparelli
Nov 08, 2016
Episode 4: Farewell Rosetta
Sep 26, 2016
Radio Astronomy, Episode 3: Juno at Jupiter
Aug 09, 2016
Episode 2: Einstein’s Vindication
Jul 08, 2016
Episode 1: Astronaut Driving lessons
Jun 10, 2016