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Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries

Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

Join Professor Fred Watson and Sci-Fi Author Andrew Dunkley on Space Nuts as they delve into astronomy, space travel, and cosmic mysteries. Explore groundbreaking discoveries and listener Q&A in captivating discussions. Follow us on social media to engage with our community!Two episodes a week with news and explainer focused editions published on Thursday"s and our Listener Q&A focused edition on Monday"s.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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52:45

01: The Best Of 2022 - The DART Mission from the Inside

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/12/30

In the this, the first in our Best of 2022 series while Andrew and Fred take a break, we introduce our special guest Marie-Claire Mercier who was our eyes and ears on the ground at the historic DART Mission climax. Enjoy!We hope you can join us on this episode, because it's very exciting. We are going to do a follow up on the DART mission with one of our dedicated listeners, Marie-Claire Mercier. Hi, Marie Claire. Thanks for joining us, by the way. Marie-Claire: Thank you. Thank you for sending the

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47:24

336: A Space Mystery Solved // Is Dark Matter Dark...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/12/22

I hope you can join us on what will be the last official episode of Space Nuts for this calendar year. And my name is Andrew Dunkley, of course, the host, and joining me will be Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. Fred, what are we going to do to finish off this 2022? Well, we've got some great stories, actually. It looks as though there's a mystery being solved that has hung around for decades regarding the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, which we see from down here in the Southern

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49:07

335 - Your Questions - Our Answers

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/12/15

Thanks for joining us.This is Space Nuts where we talk astronomy and space science. My name is Andrew Dunkley, your host, and this is an all-question episode. Your questions and our answers.Well, almost. We'll be hearing about spin launch. Somebody's not so much sent a question in, but they've been there and wanted to tell us about it.But questions about the radial velocity of stars, negative gravity, dark matter, and the Casimir effect, and much, much more.Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space

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48:53

Active Mars // Square Kilometre Array // JWST Update...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/12/08

Thanks for joining us on Space Nuts, the podcast about astronomy and space sciencealso heard on community radio across Australia.My name is Andrew Dunkley, your host. And coming up on this edition, we're going to be looking at the Square Kilometre Array.And the reason is because you can actually look at it because they've started building the thing. Also, some interesting findings by the James Webb Space Telescope.Mars appears to be active, much more active than we would have considered.Some new

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46:02

Venus - New Information

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/12/01

We've got a bunch of really interesting and quite provocative stories this week. A story about how volcanism might have shaped the atmosphere of the planet Venus.And another story about something we’ve never talked about and that is filaments in the centers of galaxies. I used to think of a filament as being something that lit up a light bulb although they don't have that anymore, but these are filaments of hot gas which have been detected and are really quite mysterious.And we'll answer questions

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47:23

The Crazy Shapes of Our Universe: The James Webb...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/11/24

The James Webb Space Telescope has analyzed the atmosphere of an exoplanet and found astonishing new evidence of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. In this episode, you will learn:1. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered new atmospheric compositions on the exoplanet Wasp-39b, including sulfur dioxide, potassium, and carbon monoxide.2. The shape of our galaxy may be more complicated than previously thought, with a halo of stars and other objects surrounding the disk of stars.3

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45:25

Artemis-1 - Mission Underway

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/11/17

Coming up on this edition, We will be talking at last about the launch of Artemis 1, which is just fabulous news. And we'll talk about that mission. On the other side of the coin, some documentary makers have discovered a chunkof the Challenger shuttle in the Atlantic Ocean, which is a somber reminder of tragedies past.And astronomers have found a black hole. And if you open your door, there it is. It's fairly close to earth.Plus audience questions coming up today, about spin launch the Barnard 68

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42:58

AMA

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/11/10

We've got an episode that divides by five. So, it means it's all questions.And we've got a range of questions today, which cover the whole universe, basically. Several about the moon, which is a great one because by chance today there is an eclipse of the moon.But they range from that out to vertical particles in the universe and the origin of dark matter.Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 330 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Download from your favorite podcast

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44:32

The Debate Rages On - Is There Water on Mars?

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/11/03

In this episode we're going to revisit Andrew’s favorite planet again with this continuing debate about whether there is liquid water underneath Mars' South polar ice cap that's taken a new turn, there is more news to talk about, which is very interesting. Plus, we look at some really exciting observations of what you might call prebiotic molecules, the kind of molecules that make up the building blocks of life, how they are affected by nearby black holes. Worked that one out. Plus listener

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42:47

Europa's Exciting New Images

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/10/27

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 328 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley In this episode, we're going to visit Jupiter's moon Europa because there's new stuff from Europa, we've got new images which have come back from a flyby by the Juno spacecraft, plus some work about the plumes of ice that might come out of the surface of Europa. Then we're going to go to the distant universe to talk about gravitational lenses with some new work that has been done here in

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40:04

Glass Beads

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/10/20

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 327 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley We have a story about what you can learn from beads, tiny beads of glass in the soil of the moon which have been brought back by the Changing Five spacecraft. We also have a story about the possible detection of the aftermath of the first stars in the universe.We'll also be taking some audience questions. One about antimatter, and I love this one a hypothetical - fishing in a black hole. Now,

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43:31

Is Enceladus Harbouring Life?

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/10/13

Space Nuts Episode 326 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley This is episode 326 of Space Nuts podcast, a bumper action packed episode yet again. We're going to talk about a new map of 56,000 galaxies, which is really interesting, and hopefully we'll learn something quite new about the universe from that. And we're also going to talk about Saturn's moon Enceladus, which you and I have spoken about many times before. Maybe there are the right minerals for living organisms in the ocean,

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47:09

When Too Many Questions Aren't Enough

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/10/06

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 325 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley This is episode 325 of Space Nuts podcast, and we've got a lot to talk about. In fact, the audience is going to do the talking because we're dedicating the whole show to questions. So we've got questions about Artemis 1, dark matter, flickering stars, Spacetime holes, gravity and terraforming Venus. Which will be interesting because it's a hot bed that place a very, very, nasty place if you set

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52:28

DART Wrap - An Insiders Perspective

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/09/29

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 324 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley I hope you can join us on the very next episode, because it's very exciting. We are going to do a follow up on the DART mission with one of our dedicated listeners, Marie-Claire Mercier. Hi, Marie Claire. Thanks for joining us, by the way.Marie-Claire: Thank you. Thank you for sending the invite.Andrew: And we've got other things to talk about, too. Fred, what's going on?Fred: Exciting news from

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44:17

The 100th Anniversary of a Major Event in Astronomy...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/09/22

Space Nuts 323 Show NotesSeptember 22, 2022Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 323 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Coming up, we're going to be looking at the 100th anniversary of a major event in astronomy and space science involving Einstein, which Fred knows everything about because he's giving a lecture on it tonight. We're also going to talk about Mars because there's been some interesting findings on Mars and it's all to do with vibrations. And listener

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41:31

Changesite - (Y)

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/09/15

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 322 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. Andrew Dunkley here from the Space Nuts podcast. We've got the next episode. coming up and to tell us what's going to be on episode 322, Astronomer at Large. Fred Watson. Fred: Hot off the press stories, as always. We've got a new mineral that has been discovered on the Moon by Chinese scientists which sounds really interesting. And we've got some less than good news, I guess,

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42:51

Saluting the Late Professor Frank Drake

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/09/08

Space Nuts Episode 321 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. My name is Andrew Dunkley, the host of the Space Nuts podcast and joining me is Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. What’s on this episode Fred?Fred: Magical episode as always, Andrew. We've got, the first exoplanet imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. Really exciting to actually see directly the image of a planet for the first time. And we're going to talk about that well known asteroid impact

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11:13

What's the DART Mission All About? - Astronomy Daily...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/09/07

Have you checked out Andrew's new podcast yet?Here's a sample episode to get you started. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocketcasts, iHeartRadio and more. You can also stream all episodes from the Space Nuts website...just visit https://spacenuts.ioEnjoy!Astronomy Daily – The PodcastShow NotesS01E10Astronomy Daily – The Podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify:Apple Podcasts:

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51:12

Hang On a Minute

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/09/01

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 320 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello once again. I'm Andrew Dunkley, the host of Space Nuts, and every week we talk astronomy and space science with Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer at large. Hi, Fred. What are we talking about this week?Fred: We've got a bumper show, as always, starting with what went wrong with Artemis One. We might just do a quick rundown on that. And then we've got, because it's episode 320, but

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52:55

Did the Asteroid that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Have a...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2022/08/25

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.Space Nuts Episode 319 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello again. I'm Andrew Dunkley from the Space Nuts podcast, hoping you can join us on this episode. And my partner in crime is Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer at Large. Hi, Fred. What's coming up on episode three one nine?Fred: We've got some great stuff as always, Andrew. We're going to ask the question, did the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs have a companion object that was

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