Astrophiz Astronomy Podcasts
196 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAstrophiz "An exceptional Astronomy podcast."
Brendan sometimes even gets how and why science works, and each month he conducts in-depth interviews with leading astro and space researchers. In each episode we feature Astrophysicists, Space Scientists, Particle Physicists, Data scientists, Antenna engineers, Instrument scientists, optical & radio astronomers, Satcomm engineers, project leaders and aurora hunters. For Astrophotographers, also each month we also hear from Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave who tells us when, where and what to look for in the sky over the coming weeks and explains astronomical phenomena in ‘Ian’s Tangent’.
This ongoing series has taken us through the history, theory and practice of radio astronomy from Faraday to Gravitational waves. Each episode includes the latest news roundup in this golden age of astrophysics. Enjoy! (& donate if you wish to help keep this podcast ad-free)
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Prof Katie Auchettl - The Extreme Death of Stars
April 15, 2024 02:04 - 1 hour - 60 MBEnjoy this great interview with Professor Katie Auchettl, who is the Associate Professor of Astrophysics and Physics at Melbourne University. Katie is an observational astrophysicist whose research focuses on the extreme death of stars. Katie has worked with a team of young astronomers on a sensational book for aspiring astrophysicists that’s just been freely published on the Archive (ArXiv) Server. The book is called: “Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists” … and ...
Astrophiz189- April SkyGuide
March 29, 2024 03:54 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBWelcome to the April SkyGuide: Dr Ian Musgrave is telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies in April. He also gives us his ‘Tangent' about Fungi and Lichen on the ISS. This month Ian continues his 'Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with simple cameras. Our target for April is Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks ... and he gives us some excellent tips to capture this celestial Dragon. Are you up for it?
Prof Orsola De Marco - Dancing with the Stars
March 15, 2024 14:00 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBProfessor Orsola De Marco is a Professor at Macquarie University and Deputy-Director of the Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney. She obtained her PhD at University College London as a Perren Scholar, after which she was a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow at ETH Zurich, a FUSE Fellow at University College London and Asimov Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She was an ARC Future Fellow. Her rese...
Astrophiz187 - March SkyGuide
February 29, 2024 08:53 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MBDr Ian Musgrave brings us his March SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. He also gives us his ‘Tangent’ about perigee and apogee Moons. Also Ian is continuing his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras. This month it's imaging Vesta and learning how to use the free Deep Sky Stacker software
Astrophiz186 Dr Hannah Diamond-Lowe: Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres
February 14, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBToday listeners, we’re zooming over 10 timezones to Denmark for some cutting edge science …, and you're invited to a very special conversation with Dr Hannah Diamond-Lowe who is a senior researcher in the Exoplanet Group at the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark … where her groundbreaking research characterizes small exoplanet atmospheres using ground- and space-based observatories. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Hot Rocks Survey, a large observing pro...
Astrophiz185: February SkyGuide
February 01, 2024 08:42 - 24 minutes - 19.4 MBDr Ian Musgrave kicks off 2024 with his February SkyGuide telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies in February. He gives us a Tangent about perigee and apogee Moons. This year Ian is introducing his 'Astrophotography Challenge' wher ehe presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras.
A184- Hyerin Cho - Black Holes
December 01, 2023 05:03 - 36 minutes - 35.6 MBAstrophiz 184: Hyerin Cho Meet Hyerin Cho, an inspiring young astrophysicist from Korea who is doing her PhD at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hyerin uses her formidable computational skills to simulate still-mysterious black holes using supercomputers, as well as revealing the mysteries and enigmatic fast radio bursts AKA FRBs. For her main research, she produces simulations of plasma accreting onto black holes and is on an already successful quest to dis...
A183: Dr Rebecca Davies - Galactic Outflows
November 14, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes - 40.5 MBDr. Rebecca Davies is an Astro3D postdoctoral researcher and has just been awarded an ARC-DECRA fellowship at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Rebecca researches the stuff that flows out of Galaxies AKA ‘Galactic Outflows’ … and she looks across the majority of the history of the universe from right now and right back through time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Rebecca uses spectroscopic data from Hubble, JWST … the Awesome James Webb Space...
Astrophiz182: November-December SkyGuide
October 31, 2023 08:15 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBMoon Phases: November 5 - the Last Quarter Moon is Sunday, good time for evening skygazing. November 7 - The Moon is at apogee, when it is furthest from the Earth November 13 - New Moon, good time for skygazing the entire night. November 14 - The very thin ‘day old’ moon is near Mercury in the west just after sunset. A genuine challenge to catch this. November 20 - First Quarter Moon, great binocular moon gazing time, with Saturn nearby. November 22 - The Moon is at perigee, when it is closes...
The James Web Space Telescope
October 14, 2023 03:23 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBToday’s special episode is from your host, Brendan O’Brien, and is all about the amazing James Webb Space Telescope: “Unveiling the Cosmos” Our story begins in a remote, microscopic corner in the vast expanse of the cosmos, where humankind has always yearned to uncover its deepest mysteries. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a monumental leap in our quest to explore the universe. From its conception as an ambitious dream in the early 1990's … to its launch on Christmas Da...
The James Webb Space Telescope
October 14, 2023 03:23 - 33 minutes - 32.6 MBToday’s special episode is from your host, Brendan O’Brien, and is all about the amazing James Webb Space Telescope: “Unveiling the Cosmos” Our story begins in a remote, microscopic corner in the vast expanse of the cosmos, where humankind has always yearned to uncover its deepest mysteries. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a monumental leap in our quest to explore the universe. From its conception as an ambitious dream in the early 1990's … to its launch on Christmas Da...
Astrophiz180: October SkyGuide
September 30, 2023 02:04 - 25 minutes - 21.7 MBShow Notes: Morning Sky Two beautiful bright planets will reward those who get up early in the mornings this month. Jupiter is is rising before midnight but is still best in the morning sky, it is close to the Moon on October 1 and on the 29th. Venus is moving from crescent to half moon phase and climbs higher the morning twilight coming very close to the bright star Regulus by weeks end. Partial penumbral lunar eclipse on October 28 is difficult to observe in central Australia and impossib...
Astrophiz 179: Dr Daniel Palumbo - The Event Horizon Telescope
September 14, 2023 23:37 - 56 minutes - 53.6 MBToday we are speaking with Dr Daniel Palumbo, from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Daniel is an astrophysicist and data scientist with the Event Horizon Telescope who worked on those amazing black hole images using data from the planet-sized telescope, the EHT, the Event Horizon Telescope. He is involved in ongoing work on the Next Generation EHT consortium In this episode he shares his science journey, how the EHT works and how he worked with the imaging teams to prod...
Astrophiz178:SeptemberSkyGuide
August 31, 2023 08:00 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MBYour planetary action is split between the evening and morning skies. Venus and Mercury return to the morning twilight. Mars is a dim glowing ember in the evening skies. Saturn is just past opposition and still high in evening skies Jupiter enters evening skies, but still look better in morning skies. Moon Phases: Last quarter moon: September 7, ideal for stargazing Moon at apogee: September 15. New moon: September 16, also ideal for stargazing First quarter moon: September 23. Moon at ...
Astrophiz 177: A/Prof Michelle Cluver
August 14, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBIn this extended and enthralling interview, Associate Professor Michelle Cluver from Swinburne University's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing reveals the captivating world of mid-infrared research. With boundless enthusiasm, she unravels the mysteries of this innovative field, igniting our imagination and highlighting her powerful results and the immense potential of being able to peer deep through previously unseeable interstellar dust clouds. Her contagious passion for discovery ...
Astrophiz 176: August SkyGuide
July 31, 2023 05:38 - 20 minutes - 16 MBHighlights: Blue Moon Opposition Of Saturn We lose Venus from Evening skies Mercury is at its best this month Moon Phases August 2nd Perigee Full Moon August 8th Last Quarter Moon (ideal for observing galaxies and globular clusters in the early evening) August 16th New Moon is ideal for stargazing anytime August 24th First Quarter Moon August 31st Perigee Full (Blue) Moon ie the 2nd Full Moon for the month and the best perigee full moon of the year. Mercury is best seen at the start of the...
Astrophiz 175-AstroDataWizardry
July 13, 2023 22:38 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB[ Full transcript at Astrophiz.com ] In this fabulous episode of Astrophiz, Greg Sleap, the Software and Systems Team Leader at CIRA, the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, a node of ICRAR (The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) discusses the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and its role in capturing radio data from the cosmos. The MWA is a low-frequency radio telescope array located in remote Western Australia. It is used for various scientific studies, including the searc...
Astrophiz174-July SkyGuide
June 28, 2023 23:55 - 28 minutes - 25.6 MBAstrophiz 174: Dr Ian Musgrave’s July SkyGuide Moon Phases: The Full Moon is Monday, July 3. Last Quarter is July 10. New Moon is July 18. First Quarter is July 26. The Moon is at perigee, when it is closest to the Earth, on the 5th. Summary: Most planetary action is in the evening skies, apart from Jupiter looking magnificent in the mornings, and Venus and Mars are nice in the evenings this month, with Mercury returning to evening skies later in the month. Till then, Mercury is lost in t...
Astrophiz173: Dr Jesse Van De Sande-NewGalacticDiscoveries
June 14, 2023 09:16 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBDr Jesse Van De Sande is the ASTRO3D research fellow at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. He is an observational astronomer who uses many of the world's most iconic and powerful telescopes, including the four 8 meter telescopes that comprise the VLT, the Very Large Telescope high up in the Andes in Chile. He is researching galaxies at low and high Redshift up to 15 billion light years away, and his research focuses on how massive galaxie...
Astrophiz172-June SkyGuide
June 01, 2023 03:52 - 23 minutes - 18.5 MBAstrophiz 172: Dr Ian Musgrave’s June SkyGuide What's up in the Southern Sky in the month of June? The dates for the Moon Phases for June, Evening Sky Highlights and all the beautiful Morning Sky Highlights. Planetary action: Mars, then Venus, meets the Beehive cluster, The moon occults Delta Scorpii, then forms attractive patterns with Jupiter, Mars and Venus. More details, times plus charts on Ian’s ’Southern Skywatch' + Ian’s Tangent - Comets & Dyson Spheres Bonus: Using binoculars eff...
Astrophiz171-The Chandra X-ray Observatory
May 15, 2023 07:37 - 45 minutes - 37.1 MBDr Rodolfo Montez Jr is better known as Rudy. Rudy is an astrophysicist working at the Chandra X-Ray Centre at the famous Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He has wide research interests and among them he does amazing work using NASA’s flagship X-ray space telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory to research some of the hottest regions of our universe. He is also known for his mentoring and championing of undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds. In this episode you wi...
Astrophiz 170: Dr Ian Musgrave May SkyGuide
May 01, 2023 06:09 - 27 minutes - 14.4 MBMoon Phases for May Full Moon - 6 May (with penumbral eclipse in the early morning) Moon at Perigee - 11 May Last Quarter - 12 May New Moon - 20 May First Quarter - 28 May (also apogee moon) Evening Sky Highlights VENUS - moving from Taurus into gemini and getting brighter and climbing higher in the West. From the 9th to 10th Venus is closed to the open cluster M35. On the 23rd Venus is just 3degrees from the crescent moon, and on the 30th Venus will be right next to the Mag 3 double star ...
Astrophiz169: Dr Laura Driessen ~ Radio Stars
April 12, 2023 07:23 - 51 minutes - 53 MBI am really excited to be speaking again with Dr Laura Driessen, who is now recognised as one of Australia’s Superstars of STEM! You first met Laura 5 years ago back in 2018 when she was doing her PhD at the University of Manchester and Jodrell Bank. Laura’s back story is all there in Astrophiz Episode 54. You heard about her obsession with space starting at age 4 and her natural yet meandering academic Astro journey up to the point where she was using commensal searches on the MeerKAT array...
Astrophiz168: April SkyGuide
March 30, 2023 02:40 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBShownotes In Australia Daylight Saving ends on April 2nd Moon Phases: Full moon April 6th So for those out camping over Easter, you’ll have very nice dark skies to see lots of clusters and nebulae as well as Venus and Mars without any interference from the moon. Last Quarter April 13th Perigee moon April 16th New Moon April 20th First Quarter (apogee) Moon appears in evening skies on April 28th. In the Evening Skies Mercury is a very difficult target even for those with very low western h...
Astrophiz167: Mia Walker - Engineering the MWA
March 14, 2023 04:45 - 38 minutes - 33.5 MBRecently I had the privilege of interviewing Mia Walker, an engineer and Project Officer at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy in Western Australia. Mia’s passion for astronomy is the driving force behind her career in this field, where she has contributed to the development and operation of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope, a stunning project designed to help unlock the mysteries of the Universe. But without Mia and the team she works with, the astronomers hungry for ...
Astrophiz166 - March SkyGuide
February 28, 2023 01:46 - 20 minutes - 15.8 MBThis month the planetary action is still largely in the western evening skies. Earth is at equinox on Tuesday, 21 March. At this time day and night are roughly equal in duration. March 2; Venus and Jupiter at their closest. March 3; Mercury and Saturn close low in the twilight. March 4; apogee Moon. March 7; Full Moon. March 15; Last Quarter Moon. March 20; the thin crescent moon near Saturn in the morning twilight. March 20; Moon at perigee. March 22; New Moon. March 24; the cresce...
Astrophiz165- Are We Alone? Dr Vishal Gajjar
February 14, 2023 19:00 - 54 minutes - 54.9 MB"Are We Alone? In an exclusive interview, Dr. Vishal Gajjar, a leading researcher on the Breakthrough Listen project, discussed his groundbreaking work using machine learning and AI to facilitate the detection of technosignatures on the project's search for Extraterrestrial life. The Breakthrough Listen project, led by the University of California Berkeley and the SETI Institute, is one of the most ambitious efforts to search for intelligent life in the universe. Using some of the world's la...
Astrophiz164-FebruarySkyGuide
January 31, 2023 00:45 - 22 minutes - 18 MBMoon Phases: Feb 6 Apogee Full moon Feb 14 Last Quarter moon Feb 20 New moon Feb 27 First Quarter moon Evening Sky Venus and Jupiter in the West half an hour after sunset, some nice planetary action in morning skies and beautiful signature stars and constellations throughout the month Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has already been a great sight in the Northern Hemisphere and now having passed by the sun, will now be best seen in Northern Australia in places like Darwin and Cairns around the 3rd of...
Astrophiz163: HolidaySkyHunting
December 23, 2022 01:19 - 8 minutes - 8.4 MBMany cultures around the world and throughout history have staged festivals events and celebrations around this time. Here in Australia our summer holidays occur now and with Christmas and New Years Eve approaching it’s a great time to spend time with family and friends. As I’ve been reminded by our resident observation guru Dr Ian Musgrave, this is a great time of year to see some great planetary action and some special stars and introduce younger family members to the splendour of the nigh...
Astrophiz 162: Dr Manisha Caleb ~ Unravelling FRB Mysteries
December 14, 2022 02:11 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBMeet an amazing researcher and astrophysicist Dr Manisha Caleb … Manisha has used the world’s most powerful instruments to unlock the secrets of some of the most powerful and puzzling objects in our known universe. For her PhD she took a very deep dive and most productive research program into the phenomena of Fast Radio Bursts using the MOST and Parkes radio telescopes, and along the way, helped refurbish and reconfigure the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope situated not far from Ca...
Astrophiz161- Dr Ian MusgraveDecember SkyGuide
November 30, 2022 05:55 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBAstrophiz 161: Dr Ian Musgrave’s December SkyGuide Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what planets to look out for in our morning and evening skies. This special month also brings you all 5 bright planets viewable in the dusk twilight and later in the evening, Saturn, Jupite...
Astrophiz 160 - CSIRO ASKAP RECAP
November 14, 2022 05:36 - 45 minutes - 42.9 MBAstrophiz 160: CSIRO-ASKAP Recap: The journey so far with Australia’s newest radio telescope Australia's ASKAP (Australian SKA Pathfinder) radio telescope array has had an amazing decade since first light, breaking records, receiving awards and finding new objects, all whilst still in its pilot phase. In this fabulous episode you will hear from the scientists using ASKAP every day to conduct groundbreaking research to further their studies, and from those working to shape ASKAP into a trul...
Astrophiz159-NovemberSkyGuide
October 31, 2022 22:55 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBAstrophiz 159: Dr Ian Musgrave’s November SkyGuide ~ Total Lunar Eclipse & Dung Beetle Navigation. Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what planets to look out for in our morning and evening skies. This special month also brings you a total lunar eclipse, an excellent view of U...
Astrophiz158-Ana Maria Delgado
October 12, 2022 23:41 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBAstrophiz 158: Ana Maria Delgado – Machine Learning & Galaxy Halos Today you will be hearing a wonderful story from Ana Maria Delgado and her entry into Science and the Arts and some of her highlights as an inspiring ‘career changer’, accomplished astrophysicist, cosmologist, coder and PhD researcher … Ana Maria is a CUNY (City University of New York) Alumnus and now a Harvard Astronomy graduate and PhD student who is using her novel machine learning techniques on supercomputers to clarify...
Astrophiz157-October SkyGuide
September 30, 2022 21:14 - 29 minutes - 26.1 MBAstrophiz 157: Dr Ian Musgrave’s October SkyGuide & Smashing Spacecraft Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what to look out for in our morning and evening skies and the dates to best observe Jupiter’s closest approach since 1963 and Jupiter’s beautiful Galilean moons. In Ian...
Astrophiz156-Amirnezam Amiri
September 14, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes - 39.6 MBAstrophiz 156 - Amirnezam Amiri - Metallicity and Galaxy Evolution Amirnezam Amiri is a PhD student at the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Florence and a PhD researcher at Italy’s famous National Institute for Astrophysics and Astronomy (INAF) in Arcetri, Florence, Italy, and the focus of his research is on metallicity measurement in both star-forming and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) galaxies. Amirnezam was awarded the Summer Internship Prize in Tenerife, at the Cana...
Astrophiz155-September SkyGuide
August 29, 2022 22:00 - 25 minutes - 21.7 MBAstrophiz 155: Dr Ian Musgrave’s September SkyGuide. Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us all the viewing highlights for our morning and evening skies and the dates to observe Jupiter’s beautiful Galilean moons and their shadows passing over Jupiter’s surface and for binocular observers, when to catch Jupite...
Astrophiz154-Dr Emily Moravec
August 13, 2022 02:06 - 54 minutes - 50.9 MBAstrophiz 154: Dr Emily Moravec - Active Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters Emily is a postdoctoral fellow at Green Bank Observatory. She is an AGN researcher who works on active galactic nuclei, radio galaxies, galaxy clusters, and radio interferometry. She is active in a number of radio AGN and cluster collaborations and does wonderful outreach work supporting early career astronomers. For her PhD at the University of Florida, Emily researched Radio Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Clusters up to 10 ...
Astrophiz153-August SkyGuide
August 03, 2022 01:31 - 24 minutes - 21.6 MBAstrophiz 153: Dr Ian Musgrave’s August SkyGuide. Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. In Ian’s Tangent, we are given solid tips on how we can observe orbital motion in Alpha Centauri with quite modest equipment, and Ian references comparisons with the apparent motions of Barnard’s star and 61 Cygni. Enjoy!
Astrophiz152 The Cosmic Web Dr Sofia Gallego
July 15, 2022 03:06 - 38 minutes - 32.9 MBAstrophiz 152 Dr Sofia Gallego ~ The Cosmic Web. Dr Sofia Gallego paints the clearest picture of the Cosmic Web you will ever hear. Originally from La Serena in Chile, growing up near some of the world’s most awesome telescopes, Sofia is now a postdoc researcher at Caltech in Pasadena and has her PhD in Astrophysics. She has a strong interest in cosmology and extragalactic astronomy from both the theoretical and observational perspectives. Sofia has also studied musical theory, violin, sin...
Astrophiz151-July SkyGuide
July 01, 2022 02:17 - 31 minutes - 27.3 MBAstrophiz 151: Dr Ian Musgrave’s July SkyGuide. Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Listen: Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects along with the exact time to view the fully illuminated full moon. Morning skies continue to be a treat worth getting up early for, an...
Astrophiz150-Gravitational Waves
June 14, 2022 23:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBAstrophiz 150: Floor Broekgaarden~Gravitational Waves Floor is an amazing astrophysicist doing her PhD at Harvard in Massachusetts in Gravitational Wave research. She is a prolific and effective ambassador for early career astronomers. Floor is a well-established mentor and supervisor for astrophysics students and has been published in highly respected journals. You will hear about her most recent papers where she investigates the first two black hole–neutron star mergers detected in gravit...
Astrophiz149-JuneSkyGuide-DrIanMusgrave
May 31, 2022 22:00 - 26 minutes - 23.4 MBAstrophiz 149: Dr Ian Musgrave’s June SkyGuide. Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects. Morning skies continue to be a treat worth getting up early for, and Saturn begins to be visible low in the East in evening skies by mid-June,...
Astrophiz148-Massive Stars
May 15, 2022 07:51 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBAstrophiz 148 - Massive Stars - Dr Poojan Agrawal Dr Poojan Agrawal is a Postdoc Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh USA. The focus of her research is on the lives of massive stars and their role in determining the evolution of stellar systems/stellar populations and star clusters, and given the rarity and short lives of massive stars, she obviously like a challenge! In her PhD thesis, “Massive stars and gravitational waves: Bridging the gap with a new method for ...
Astrophiz147-MaySkyGuide
April 30, 2022 04:05 - 36 minutes - 30.5 MBAstrophiz 147: Dr Ian Musgrave’s May SkyGuide. Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects. A special treat that is worth getting up early for is the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on May 1st, and hear about further opportunities during May to...
Astrophiz146-Dr Suzie Sheehy - Accelerator physics and Cancer Therapies
April 14, 2022 18:00 - 57 minutes - 54.4 MBYou’ll love this wonderful interview with Accelerator Physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy, who is doing groundbreaking work with particle accelerators to develop compact instruments that are changing the way nuclear medicine is used in clinical treatments worldwide. Dr Suzie divides her time between her research groups at the University of Oxford where she is Visiting Lecturer, and the University of Melbourne where she is a Senior Lecturer and Baker/ANSTO Fellow in Medical Accelerator Physics. For S...
Astrophiz145-AprilSkyGuide
April 01, 2022 00:35 - 25 minutes - 20.7 MBAstrophiz 145: Dr Ian Musgrave’s April SkyGuide Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects In Ian’s Tangent, he continues his theme to discuss the problems with our descriptions of celestial objects, in this case the way the size o...
Astrophiz144-The First Astronomers-DuaneHamacher
March 14, 2022 22:31 - 53 minutes - 43.6 MBDuane is based in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne and is part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D. This episode covers Duane’s entry into science and culture then his journey as a graduate from the University of Missouri-Columbia who ventured down to Sydney Australia to do his Masters Degree by Research followed by his Doctorate in Cultural Astronomy at Macquarie University, and without too many spoilers on his magnificent book, we cover his epi...
Astrophiz143-March SkyGuide
March 01, 2022 00:43 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBEnjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr Ian Musgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist. Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe clusters and deep sky objects and tips and times around the coming equinox to observe the Zodiacal Light. We also get a great challenge for those who have infrared filters on their telescopes. See if you can emulate the Parker So...
Astrophiz142-KrystalDeNapoli-Indigenous Astronomy
February 14, 2022 20:43 - 55 minutes - 54.9 MBAstrophiz 142 - Krystal De Napoli ~ Star Formation & Indigenous Astronomy Krystal is a fabulous indigenous astronomer who is carving out a brilliant career for herself while she improves the educational prospects for indigenous Australians. She is currently based in Melbourne but grew up in the closest town to me here in North-East Victoria. After being awarded her first science degree, she is extending her B.Sc with Astrophysics Honours Research at Monash University. She was recently award...