Do you ever feel dizzy when you think about the incomprehensible scale of space? We call that feeling Cosmic Vertigo. Welcome to a head-spinning conversation between two friends about the sparkly -- and not so sparkly -- stuff in the sky.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/cosmicvertigo/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 11 hours 43 minutes
004 | Wobble and wink
The science of exoplanets is stupendously fast-moving. The more we look for alien worlds, the more of them we find. Thousands and thousands of them, all with terrible names.
004 | Wobble and wink
The science of exoplanets is stupendously fast-moving. The more we look for alien worlds, the more of them we find. Thousands and thousands of them, all with terrible names.
003 | The bigger they are, the faster they burn
What makes a star a star? When will Betelgeuse explode? Amanda explores what "any day now" means in astronomy and Alan starts measuring mass in millions of marsupials.
003 | The bigger they are, the faster they burn
What makes a star a star? When will Betelgeuse explode? Amanda explores what "any day now" means in astronomy and Alan starts measuring mass in millions of marsupials.
002 | Measly little specks of dust
Our Solar System started out as a chaotic Primordial Pancake. Now it hosts the eight planets we know and love, plus poor old Pluto, plus some other stuff. Like asteroids with their own moons.
002 | Measly little specks of dust
Our Solar System started out as a chaotic Primordial Pancake. Now it hosts the eight planets we know and love, plus poor old Pluto, plus some other stuff. Like asteroids with their own moons.
001 | A giant lump of rock and iron
It’s drifting away from Earth at the same rate that your fingernails grow, but the Moon is still our closest neighbour - so close, that we’ve left quite a lot of litter on its surface…
001 | A giant lump of rock and iron
It’s drifting away from Earth at the same rate that your fingernails grow, but the Moon is still our closest neighbour - so close, that we’ve left quite a lot of litter on its surface…
000 | Welcome to the party! (That's us)
Meet your hosts, astronomers Dr Amanda Bauer and Dr Alan Duffy.
000 | Welcome to the party! (That's us)
Meet your hosts, astronomers Dr Amanda Bauer and Dr Alan Duffy.