Astrophiz Astronomy Podcasts
198 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 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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Astrophiz 96-Prof Geraint Lewis-Are We Alone?
December 05, 2019 03:06 - 58 minutes - 38.4 MBOur feature interview today is with Dr Geraint Lewis who a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney, whose research includes cosmology and galactic archaeology. and today he is going to help us look at the existential question “Are We Alone” . Also I’ll remind listeners that this is our last episode for 2019 before we take our holiday break, but we’ll be back in early February 2020, and if you are not already, there is another great Astronomy podcast you should listen to and that...
Astrophiz 95 - Steve Olney - From Ham radio to Radio Astronomy
November 20, 2019 21:54 - 57 minutes - 76.8 MBAstrophiz 95: Steve Olney: From Ham Radio to Radio Astronomy - "The 2019 Vela Glitch" Feature Interview: This amazing interview features Steve Olney who has established the Hawkesbury Radio Astronomy Observatory in his backyard. Steve has constructed a Yagi antenna array, coupled it with a receiver and observed a pulsar 900 LY away and generated data that has enabled him to be the only person on the planet to observe Vela’s 2019 glitch in radio waves as it happened. In the sky for observers...
Astrophiz 94: Amanda Wherrett - ANU Siding Spring Observatory
November 07, 2019 04:12 - 55 minutes - 71.7 MBAstrophiz 94: Amanda Wherrett: ANU Siding Spring Observatory This wonderful episode features Amanda Wherrett from the Australian National University and who conducts wonderful tours of the Siding Spring Observatory in remote New South Wales in Australia. Amanda shares with us the absolute best observing tip you will hear in your whole life, and she tells us all about this stunning mountain and it’s remarkable array of observatories, research telescopes and instruments and the astronomers who...
Astrophiz 93-Dr Jim Palfreyman-The Vela Glitch
October 24, 2019 01:48 - 56 minutes - 72.1 MBAstrophiz 93: Dr Jim Palfreyman: The Vela Glitch This episode features astrophysicist Dr Jim Palfreyman, who is a data analyst and casual researcher at the University of Tasmania. Today he tells us about his celebrated Nature paper revealing the way he analyses Vela’s glitches and how that came to tell us about the inner structures of neutron stars/pulsars. In the sky for observers and astrophotographers: Our regular feature ‘What’s Up Doc’ is with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave. He previews the...
Astrophiz 92-Dr Ivo Seitenzahl
October 10, 2019 06:26 - 44 minutes - 59.3 MBAstrophiz 92: Dr Ivo Seitenzahl ~ Optical Tomography in Type Ia Supernova remnants. Today’s featured guest is originally from Germany and is now a Future Fellow in the School of Science at the University of New South Wales in Canberra. Ivo introduces us to his new technique using optical telescope integral field spectrograph data to analyse the different elements present in the remnants and the effects of shocks and reverse shocks. Our regular feature “What’s Up Doc” for Astrophotographers ...
Astrophiz 91 - Dr Chenoa Tremblay - Molecules in Space
September 26, 2019 02:18 - 48 minutes - 58.2 MBAstrophiz 91: Dr Chenoa Tremblay – “Molecules in Space & Dark Magnetism” Listen: Our fabulous featured guest today is Dr Chenoa Tremblay, who is a Postdoctoral fellow in Dark Magnetism with the CSIRO and a member of the Commissioning team for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) facility in remote Western Australia. Chenoa introduces us to Polarisation and Dark Magnetism and Astrochemistry and tell us how she uses the ASKAP array to detect and identify complex molecules i...
Astrophiz 90: Sophia Nasr - Self-Interacting Dark Matter
September 12, 2019 03:47 - 36 minutes - 44.9 MBAstrophiz 90: Sophia Nasr – Self Interacting Dark Matter and Galaxy Clusters This episode’s featured guest is Sophia Nasr, who is a fabulous graduate physics student at University of California, Irvine who is working on her PhD in cosmology and astroparticle theory with a focus on researching Self-Interacting Dark Matter. She brilliantly explains all forms of dark matter research and her passion for cosmology, equity, diversity and outreach. In the sky: Observation notes for September in...
Astrophiz 89- Dr Andy Tomkins-Meteorites
August 29, 2019 05:41 - 39 minutes - 50.1 MBAstrophiz 89- Dr Andy Tomkins-Meteorites by Astrophiz
Astrophiz 88- Cate MacQueen- The Dark Photon
August 15, 2019 03:44 - 57 minutes - 80.4 MBAstrophiz 88: Cate MacQueen – The Dark Photon + ‘What’s Up Doc’ with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave Listen: Today we are speaking with experimental particle physicist Cate MacQueen, who conducts analyses searching for dark matter at particle accelerators. Cate is currently based at The University of Melbourne and is part of the Dark Sector Physics team who are using the Belle II detector, which is attached to the SuperKEKB accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan. In ‘What’s Up Doc’ Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ M...
Astrophiz 87- Exobiology Pt3
August 01, 2019 04:23 - 59 minutes - 78.8 MBIn Part 3 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is again Professor Jonti Horner, the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousands of citations, he is an esteemed Astronomer and Astrobiologist who researches Exoplanets, Exoplanet Habitability and the evolution of our Solar system. Jonti has lead the construction of the newly commissioned MINERVA-Australis exoplanet search and follow-up facility at the USQ Mt. Kent Observator...
Astrophiz 86 - Exobiology Pt2
July 18, 2019 05:17 - 57 minutes - 75.2 MBAstrophiz 86: Professor Jonti Horner – Exobiology Part 2 ‘Fingerprinting Exoplanets, NASA, TESS & MINERVA-AUSTRALIS’ + ‘What’s Up Brendan’ because Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave is away at a conference in Hawaii. In Part 2 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is Professor Jonti Horner, the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousands of citations, he is an esteemed Astronomer and Astrobiologist who researches Exoplanets, Exo...
Astrophiz85: Prof Jonti Horner-Exobiology Pt1
July 04, 2019 05:54 - 54 minutes - 67.6 MBAstrophiz 85: Professor Jonti Horner - Exobiology Part 1 'The Myths of Jupiter, Comet impacts & the search for life elsewhere’ + ‘What’s Up Doc’ with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave Listen: In Part 1 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is Professor Jonti Horner, the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousands of citations, he is an esteemed Astronomer and Astrobiologist who researches Exoplanets, Exoplanet Habitability and ...
Astrophiz 84: Dr Anais Möller
June 20, 2019 10:01 - 40 minutes - 45.6 MBAstrophiz 84: “The Dark Energy Science Collaboration and the LSST” In this episode we are speaking with Venezuelan-born astrophysicist and observational cosmologist Dr Anais Möller. Anais is currently based in France and is part of the team who are the science drivers of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration attached to the LSST (the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) which is under construction at Cerro Pachón on the Andes Mountains of Northern Chile. For observers and astrophotographers, in ...
Astrophiz83-Tommy Marshman-GPU Pipelines
June 06, 2019 06:40 - 36 minutes - 41.9 MBToday we’d like to welcome Tommy Marshman, an early stage researcher who is completing his Masters of Research at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. Tommy explains his research comparing the effectiveness of CPU and GPU pipelines when working with galactic plane surveys using Parkes data. In ‘What’s Up Doc’ for astrophotographers and observers, Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells us what to look out for in the morning and evening skies. In ‘Ian’s Tangent’ he looks at the controversy sur...
Astrophiz82 - Dr Ashley Ruiter - Supernova Scientist
May 23, 2019 05:34 - 52 minutes - 67.1 MBAstrophiz 82: Dr Ashley Ruiter - Supernova scientist Today we are speaking with Dr Ashley Ruiter, ARC Future Fellow and senior lecturer in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, Australia. She specializes in Type Ia supernovae and other transient phenomena from stars, in particular their origin, evolution history, and birth rates. Basically she researches anything that erupts, explodes, or merges, and also make predictions about which of these sources may be seen with gravitational waves usi...
Astrophiz 81 - Dr Ivy Wong
May 09, 2019 05:11 - 46 minutes - 54.6 MBAstrophiz 81: Dr Ivy Wong - 'Star Formation, Galaxy Evolution & Radio Galaxy Zoo" Our feature interview is with Dr Ivy Wong, who researches supermassive black holes, star formation and the evolution of galaxies. Her research is sensational and you will love the questions she asks about galaxy evolution and how she goes about answering those brilliant questions. As one of the initial co-leaders of the Radio Galaxy Zoo project she also gives us the heads-up on this fantastic opportunity for Ci...
Astrophiz80-Dr JJ Eldridge-Binary Stars
April 26, 2019 06:10 - 51 minutes - 66 MBIn this fabulous episode we are speaking with Dr JJ Eldridge, who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Their general research concerns the lives and deaths of stars and particularly the effects of binary interactions on the lives of binary stars and how these change the appearance of galaxies, alter the rates of different types of supernovae and impact on gravitational wave events. Then for observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian 'Astroblog' Musg...
Astrophiz 79-Dr Stas Shabala
April 12, 2019 01:36 - 49 minutes - 57.8 MBIn this episode we are speaking with Dr Stas Shabala, who is an international astrophysicist and a Lecturer in Physics at the University of Tasmania. Stas researches using powerful radio telescopes from all over the world and at the nearby Mt Pleasant facility, he investigates AGN Radio Jets & galactic evolution, and we are going to dive deep into Geodetic VLBI, (Very Long Base Interferometry) and we talk about the Radio Galaxy Zoo Citizen Science Project that Stas has been involved in right ...
Astrophiz 78: Ultra high UV Astronomy - Ryan Ridden
March 21, 2019 06:00 - 56 minutes - 70.4 MBAstrophiz 78: High Altitude UV Astronomy ~ Ryan Ridden Today we are speaking with Ryan Ridden, a PhD student at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research investigates cataclysmic events by launching UV telescopes attached to helium balloons high above the atmosphere! For observers and astrophotographers, in ‘What’s Up Doc’, Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells us what to look for in the morning, evening & night skies, and ...
Astrophiz 77: Dr Christine Redman
March 06, 2019 21:48 - 43 minutes - 54.7 MBIn this episode we feature a fabulous interview with Dr Christine Redman, who is an Honorary Fellow with the Melbourne Graduate School for Education at the University of Melbourne. She is going to give us the big picture on the state of Science Education in the Primary (Elementary) Secondary and Tertiary sectors in Australia, and how Science Education is the key to Australia’s ambition to nurture its newly formed Australian Space Agency. For observers and astrophotographers, in ‘What’s Up Do...
Astrophiz 76 - Masers in Space
February 21, 2019 04:07 - 34 minutes - 40.3 MBToday we are speaking with Dr Shari Breen, who holds a research fellowship at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney. She has been awarded the prestigious Bolton Fellowship and has worked on some of the world’s and Australia’s most powerful instruments, including the Parkes Dish and the ATCA. In 2015 she was named a L’Oreal-UNESCO forWomen in Science Fellow for her work on understanding how the largest stars in our galaxy are formed. For observers and astrophotograp...
Astrophiz 75: The Eagle has landed
February 07, 2019 05:52 - 54 minutes - 72.7 MBToday we are at the NASA/CSIRO Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla in Australia, and we are speaking with Glen Nagle, who is the CSIRO’s outreach and administration lead and NASA operations support officer. Glen tells us how the technicians crewing the 26m dish at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station were the only ones capable of receiving and re-transmitting clear images of the first 8 minutes of Neil Armstrong's descent from the Eagle Lunar Module and his first smal...
Astrophiz74-Astrophotography
January 12, 2019 05:30 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBPlease enjoy this ‘Best of 2018 Astrophiz’ double episode where we have our two most popular astrophotography interviews for 2018, Dr Ian Musgrave @ianfmusgrave and Doug Ingram @douggyi . I have removed my ’News’ ramblings and our ‘What’s up Doc’ segments from these two episodes so you can enjoy excellent advice from these two astrophotographers, without any distractions, in a single episode. (62minutes)
Astrophiz 73: Best of 2018
December 25, 2018 22:37 - 51 minutes - 62.7 MBAstrophiz 73: ‘Best of 2018’ Astrophysics Please enjoy this ‘Best of 2018 Astrophiz’ episode where we have our 3 most popular astrophysics interviews for 2018. I have removed my ’News’ ramblings and Dr Ian Musgrave's ‘What’s up Doc’ segments from these three episodes so you can listen to these three astrophysicists without any distractions in a single episode. (51min) Today’s first feature interview is with Dr Jane Kaczmarek, ( @jfKaczmarek ) who gives us the state of play on the new rece...
Astrophiz72-Dr Brad Tucker-Supernova Space Detective
December 14, 2018 10:39 - 34 minutes - 45 MBAstrophiz 72: Dr Brad Tucker ~ SUPERnova Space Detective Brad tells us about his research using the Keppler Space Telescope and how its successor TESS is generating great science already. He tells us how astrophysicists use a variety of tools to measure how the universe is changing over time. He explains how remote observing has radically changed the way astronomy is done around the world and how we now use telescopes with 100 times the light collecting area of the Hubble telescope and use l...
Astrophiz71 - Aliens are cool
November 30, 2018 08:29 - 44 minutes - 58.6 MBAstrophiz 71: John Sarkissian ~ ‘Aliens are cool!’ AKA SETI, PAFs & Cryogenics PLUS: 'What's up Doc', direct from Dr @ianfmusgrave ’s Astroblog Listen here: This is the fourth of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Today’s feature interview is with John Sarkissian at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory (Yes, he works ...
Astrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens - The ATCA
November 16, 2018 03:57 - 46 minutes - 61.9 MBAstrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens ~ The ATCA PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave Listen here: Astrophiz – Astrophiz70 This is the third of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Today’s feature interview is with Dr Jamie Stevens, CSIRO’s Senior Systems Scientist for the Australian Telescope Compact Array, a unique...
Astrophiz69: Dr Chris Lidman's Accelerating Universe
November 01, 2018 04:52 - 37 minutes - 50.1 MBThis is the second of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we’ll be publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Dr Chris Lidman, who is the first Director of the ANU Siding Spring Observatory, which is deep in a pristine dark sky parkin the Wurrumbungle ranges in North Eastern New South Wales in Australia. Chris was a member of the team which shared the 2011 Nobel Priz...
Astrophiz 68: Dr jane Kaczmarek
October 19, 2018 02:50 - 41 minutes - 54.4 MBThis is the first of our series of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we’ll be publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Astrophiz 68: Dr Jane Kaczmarek -Ultra wide band receiver commissioning scientist PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave Today’s feature interview is with Dr Jane Kaczmarek, @jfKaczmarek, who gives us the state of play on the new receivers ...
Astrophiz67: DSLR Astrophotography with Doug Ingram
September 27, 2018 03:41 - 56 minutes - 62.7 MBAstrophiz 67: Doug Ingram ~ DSLR Astrophotography 201 Today’s feature interview is with DSLR 'Nightscapades' astrophotographer Doug Ingram of Nightscapades fame, and he encourages us to dust off our DSLR cameras and learn how to start snapping the night sky, and for more experienced astrophotographers, he has some great tips and challenges. In our regular segment for astrophotographers and observers, Dr Ian 'Astroblog’ Musgrave presents ‘What’s Up Doc?' where he tells us what's up in the ...
Astrophiz66: Prof Steven Tingay - Building the world's biggest radio telescope
September 14, 2018 04:10 - 1 hour - 67 MBAstrophiz 66: Professor Steven Tingay “Building the world’s biggest radio telescope”, ICRAR, the MWO and the SKA. https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz66-prof-steven-tingay This episode features an extended interview with John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay, who is the Deputy Executive Director of ICRAR and leads the Curtin University node of ICRAR. ICRAR is the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. Whilst with ICRAR, he was also the Director of the $50M Murchi...
Astrophiz 65: Dr Andrew Cameron - Extreme relativistic binaries
August 31, 2018 04:18 - 59 minutes - 73 MBAstrophiz 65: Dr Andrew Cameron This episode features an extended interview with a pulsar radio astronomer, Dr Andrew Cameron, who was awarded his Doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Bonn. Andrew has just returned from China where he is working with the world’s largest instrument, the FAST radio telescope. It’s a massive 500m Spherical Telescope, and currently holds the record for the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world...
Astrophiz64: Dr Shi Dai - Pulsar Hunter
August 17, 2018 06:38 - 36 minutes - 47.9 MBAstrophiz 64: Dr Shi Dai ~ Pulsar Hunter This episode features a fabulous radio astronomer, Dr Shi Dai, who is on a very exciting quest, to find elusive pulsar-black hole binary systems. To continue his search he is working with the CASS pulsar group which is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, a division of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Dr Shi Dai has his Doctorate in radio astronomy from Peking University, a major Chinese research university located in Beijing. and has ...
Astrophiz 63-When Galaxies Collide
August 03, 2018 06:38 - 37 minutes - 22 MBAstrophiz 63: Prof Lisa Harvey-Smith ~ When Galaxies Collide This episode features one of the icons of modern astronomy, Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, Astronomy researcher, author and presenter of ABC television's Stargazing Live. She uses the world's largest radio telescopes to study the life cycle of stars and develops new world-leading precursor telescopes building the Square Kilometre Array. We find out how she left school at 11 and now has a Doctorate in radio astronomy and Masters in Ph...
Astrophiz62: Prof Peter Coles
July 20, 2018 10:15 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBAstrophiz 62: Prof Peter Coles 'Why the Universe is Extremely Overrated'~ on Soundcloud & iTunes Our feature story for this episode ‘Why the universe is extremely overrated’ from the blog at telescoper.wordpress.com by Dr Peter Coles, who is a Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Cardiff University in Wales and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University in Ireland. His research is in the area of cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe. His fabulous blog is...
Astrophiz 61: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker
July 05, 2018 07:04 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBAstrophiz 61: Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker ~ Seeing the Universe in Radio Colour ~ on Soundcloud & iTunes Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker is a GaLactic and Extragalactic MWA Survey Scientist who earned her PhD in Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and is currently a Curtin Early Career Research Fellow who helped to commission the low-frequency SKA precursor radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in outback Western Australia. Today in our feature interview we hear a...
Astrophiz60-Dr Jane Kaczmarek
June 21, 2018 08:11 - 50 minutes - 28.3 MBAstrophiz 60: Dr Jane Kaczmarek ~ 'The Dish’ Intensified ~ on Soundcloud & iTunes A full-length feature episode on the installation of revolutionary receivers on the famous CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory ‘The Dish’, featuring Dr Jane Kaczmarek who led the commissioning of the Ultra Wideband with Low receiver, the UWL. Dr Jane is a CSIRO research scientist and post-doctoral fellow who has her BSc in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Wisconsin and her Doctorate in Physics from Th...
Astrophiz59-Astrophotography101
June 08, 2018 22:08 - 42 minutes - 15.8 MBAstrophiz 59 Dr Ian Musgrave ~ Astrophotography 101 A full-length feature episode on astrophotography and astroimaging with Dr Ian Musgrave of Astroblogger fame. Ian is a University toxicology lecturer, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, and he explains how to plan for a shoot, using telescopes, point&shoot cameras, and smartphone astrophotography, some worthwhile targets, some imaging software to try, and the sky visualisation softwares he uses. Then he presents his regular segme...
Astrophiz 58 -Dr Jessie Christiansen & NASA_TESS
May 24, 2018 07:44 - 46 minutes - 23.8 MBAstrophiz 58 Dr Jessie Christiansen ~ Flying with @NASA_TESS to a billion planets Today our feature interview is with Dr Jessie Christiansen who started out in rural Queensland in Australia and is now a NASA Staff Scientist and working on exoplanet discovery with the just-launched TESS Mission. Follow @aussiastronomer on Twitter And that’s followed by university toxicology lecturer, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Dr Ian Musgrave of Astroblogger fame, who will tell us ‘What’s Up ...
Astrophiz 57: Dr Elaina Hyde, Data Science & Astrophysics
May 10, 2018 12:03 - 58 minutes - 39.7 MBAstrophiz 57: Dr Elaina Hyde ~ Data Science & Astrophysics Our feature interview is with Dr Elaina Hyde. Dr. Hyde speaks four languages, has four undergraduate degrees in astronomy, physics, optical engineering and planetary sciences; two masters degrees in engineering and astronomy and astrophysics; and a Ph.D. in astronomy and physics. She is an artist, a cool coder, and shares her code on Github. She uses data creatively to understand how our universe works. Follow on @AstroHyde on Twit...
Astrophiz 56 - Prof Matthew Bailes - Magnetars, Supercomputers & Gravitational Waves
April 26, 2018 06:56 - 51 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this episode we hear about weird Magnetars, Supercomputers and Gravitational Wave discoveries from Professor Matthew Bailes. Dr Bailes is the founder and Director of the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). He is an advisor to the Breakthrough Listen project as well as leading the MeerTIME project. His team also developed a supercomputer for the 50 year-old Molonglo telesc...
Astrophiz 55-Kathryn Neugent-Runaway Star
April 12, 2018 08:48 - 38 minutes - 55.2 MBOur feature interview is with Kathryn Neugent, who is PhD Astronomy student researching massive stars at the University of Washington in Seattle, research associate at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, discoverer of an amazing runaway Yellow Supergiant in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Photographer, Backpacker, and animal lover pretty much anywhere and everywhere! Follow @KathrynNeugent on Twitter and her blog at http://kathrynneugent.com Find out about massive Wolf-Rayet stars and Kathryn's tea...
Astrophiz 54 - Laura Driessen - Pinpointing FRBs
March 29, 2018 07:06 - 54 minutes - 81.7 MBIn this episode our feature interview is with Laura Driessen who is an astrophysicist and PhD candidate based at Manchester University who is working with the MeerTRAP team using radio and optical data from the SKA precursor MeerKAT array to pinpoint the sources of mysterious Fast Radio Bursts. For observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian Musgrave gives us ‘What’s Up Doc’ and he tells us what to look for in our morning and evening skies, what planets, galaxies and nebula to look for, what oc...
Astrophiz 53 Kirsten Banks - Indigenous Astronomy
March 15, 2018 04:49 - 35 minutes - 49.9 MBIn this episode we are speaking with astrophysicist and Indigenous Astronomer Kirsten Banks who is the Indigenous Astronomy Educator at the Sydney Observatory. She is a multiple award winner and CSIRO STEM Award finalist. For observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian Musgrave gives us ‘What’s Up Doc’ and tells us what to look for in our morning and evening skies. What planets, galaxies and nebula to look for, what occultations are happening, and in Ian's Tangent, we talk about the demise of Tia...
Astrophiz 52: Dr Emily Petroff - FRB Hunter
March 01, 2018 19:37 - 47 minutes - 63.9 MBToday we are at FRB2018 speaking with Dr Emily Petroff who is a Post-doc Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy in Dwingeloo. Hosted at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne and sponsored by CAASTRO, this conference was dedicated to the still mysterious Fast Radio Bursts and attracted FRB researchers from all over the world. Among the first to conduct diagnostic research into FRBs and Perytons, Emily presented her most recent research at the conference and give...
Astrophiz51: Dr David Gozzard - Radio Telescope Pilot - Taking the pulse of the Universe
February 14, 2018 09:40 - 48 minutes - 71.4 MBAstrophiz 51: Dr David Gozzard - Telescope pilot taking the pulse of the Universe. In this episode we are speaking with Dr David Gozzard who is a Post-doc Researcher at the The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research and lecturer at the University of West Australia. He is also a surf lifesaver, a 3D printer and model aircraft pilot, Astrophysics blogger and recipient of the 2017 West Australian Student Scientist of the Year Award. His work on synchronising multi-signal systems has b...
Astrophiz 50: Asteroid Hunters 2
January 30, 2018 07:58 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBWe're baaack, after a fabulous EuroTour, with our second Asteroid Hunter show where we talk with Daniel Bamberger in Marburg Germany, then Guy Wells in London UK, who are the founders of the Northolt Branch Observatories, who are our most prolific confirmers of Asteroids, comets and NEOs. Then we cross to Adelaide in Australia to speak with regular presenter Dr Ian Musgrave, who features the upcoming eclipses and tells us what to look up for in 2018.
Astrophiz 49: Festive Greetings & Happy New Year! + Stairway to Heaven
December 11, 2017 09:38 - 3 minutes - 8.56 MBHave a fabulous Festive Season and Happy New Year Everyone! Some of the Astrophiz team is off on a jaunt through Europe/UK over December/January, so we will not be posting as usual. We are doing some interviews on our trip so we'll have some more fabulous Astrophiz episodes for you early in 2018. Today we leave you a beautiful festive tune, arranged by my daughter Lara for Piano, Cello & violin. Lara's friends Emma (violin) and Tom (cello) work together beautifully for this classic Led Zepp...
Astrophiz 48: Dr Jacinta Delhaize 'Star-forming frenzy'
November 30, 2017 06:39 - 59 minutes - 77.1 MBAstrophiz 48: Dr Jacinta Delhaize 'Star-forming frenzy' In this fabulous extended 60min episode we feature Dr Jacinta Delhaize who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science in Croatia. Jacinta has devolved a ‘stacking technique’ to combine data to overcome the problem of detecting weak hydrogen signals from distant galaxies. She has been using data from the Parkes Dish and the Hershel instrument to helps us understand the role of hydrogen in the evolution of g...
Astrophiz 47: Dr Phil Edwards"The SKA"
November 16, 2017 01:37 - 58 minutes - 67.9 MBAstrophiz 47: Dr Phil Edwards - The SKA Today we are speaking with Dr Phil Edwards, Australia’s SKA leader from the CSIRO. He is now Head of ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility) Science at the CSIRO and SKA Project Scientist. Phil is originally from South Australia and did his BSc, BScHons and PhD at the University of Adelaide, and he gives some great insights on the often meandering career paths of scientists. As well as giving us an inside look at the Square Kilometre Array (the SK...