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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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339: The Pareidolia Phenomenon on Mars: Searching for...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2023/02/16

After a decade of searching, a determined Mars rover discovers an eerily familiar formation of an ancient crater, inciting an interplanetary investigation of the phenomenon of pareidolia. You will learn the mysteries of the Red Planet and the latest updates on Mars exploration.Show Notes:After a decade of searching, a determined Mars rover discovers an eerily familiar formation of an ancient crater, inciting an interplanetary investigation of the phenomenon of pareidolia. You will learn the

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49:51

338: Indestructible Asteroids // The Hunt for Alien...

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2023/02/09

Thank you for joining us on Space Nuts where we talk astronomy and space science every week. I hope you well. Coming up in this edition indestructible asteroids - yep they've got some samples they've hit him with a hammer and nothing happened and we're talking asteroids that are made of rubble. But it turns out to be more like reinforced concrete. We're also going to look at machine learning or artificial intelligence for the discovery, maybe, of extraterrestrial life. And we're going to answer some

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48:04

337: 2023-BU - A Near Miss for Planet Earth

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2023/02/02

We're back. Space Nuts. 2023. I'm Andrew Dunkley, your host, and joining me, as always, will be Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. Hi, Fred. Happy new year. Probably too late to say that, but anyway, it's the first time we've chatted a break. Now, what's coming up on the 337th edition of Space nuts? Well, a near miss asteroid we've got to talk about. Asteroid 2023 BU, which flew past the earth very closely recently. It was almost a record breaker in that regard. We'll cover that. And we'll

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46:32

05: The Best of 2022 - Artemis-1

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2023/01/26

In early November 2022, Artemis-1 finally launched on it's inaugura mission after several false starts. A huge success, the mission gave us a glimpse of things to come....the future had arraived. Great excitment ensued. Fred gave us his epert overview of the launch and what it meant for the future of space exploration.For more Space Nuts visit https://spacenuts.ioFollow Space Nuts on Facebook, Twitter (@SpaceNutspodcst), Instagram, and YouTube#space #science #astronomy #podcast #spacenutsBecome a

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59:51

04: The Best of 2022 | A Celebration

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2023/01/19

In April 2022, Space Nuts reached a milestone...the recording of the 300th episode. A celebration ensued. Enjoy!Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Best of 2022 E04 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Download from your favorite podcast distributor or visit our website at www.spacenuts.io Have you checked out our new daily news podcast, Astronomy Daily – The Podcast, just visit our website at https://spacenuts.io or our HQ at https://bitesz.com And now available on Apple

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03: Space Nuts Best of 2022 | First Image from the JWST

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2023/01/12

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts – The Best of 2022 E03 - with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley Andrew: Hello. Andrew Dunkley here from Space Nuts. Hope you can join us on Best of 2022 episode where I'll be joined by none other than the good Professor Fred Watson, astronomer at large. Fred. What's on this edition. Fred: One of the biggest stories of 2022, which is the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. We're going to cover that in a little bit of detail

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53:35

02: Questions & Answers - The Best of Space Nuts 2022

Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries ·

2023/01/05

In this episode as part of our Best of 2022 series while Andrew and Fred take a break, we take you back to February 2022 for one of our favorite Q&A sessions...you ask, we answer. Enjoy!Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff. Space Nuts Episode 290 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley · Our listeners take over the show with questions from around the globe. Fred has answers for all of them. NEW: The Space Nuts Premium edition is now available on Spotify for our Supercast subscribers

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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

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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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