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Look Up!

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Join the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich as they discuss the night sky and recent news in the wide world of astronomy. The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the historic home of the Astronomer Royal, with the first building, Flamsteed House, built in 1675. Now the Observatory is a heritage site, museum and a centre for excellence in science learning.

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00:40:54

Look Up! March 2021

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2021/03/01

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky in March 2021 in this Look Up! podcast. That's not all, though - they also discuss some recent astronomical news stories. February was mostly dominated with the Mars missions, but some other exciting things happened. Patricia discusses the newly-found most distant solar system object (with a fantastic name - but you'll need to listen to the podcast to find out!) while Bryony does

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00:35:12

Look Up! February 2021

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2021/02/01

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky for the start of 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. As well as this, they discuss some recent astronomical news. Patricia kicks off with an overview of some important space-related legislation that passed on December 31st of 2020 that aims to help preserve our heritage in space, and Bryony follows it up with some newly published research about the motion of stars in our

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00:41:49

Look Up! January 2021

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2020/12/31

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky for the start of 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. As well as this, they discuss some recent astronomical news. Patricia discusses the sample return from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft while Bryony pays tribute to a fallen friend: the radio dish at Arecibo Observatory. Which of these do you find the most interesting? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers

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00:45:11

Look Up! December 2020

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2020/11/30

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky this December, 2020, in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. As well as this, they discuss some recent astronomical news. Bryony explains how Mars' dust storms may be the reason for its lack of water, while Patricia talks about the possibility of Europa glowing in the dark. Which of these do you find the most interesting? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our

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00:43:21

Look Up! November 2020

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2020/10/29

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Bryony take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara chats about the asteroid sample-return mission of OSIRIS-REx and Bryony discusses the Physics Nobel Prize of 2020 for the robust theoretical prediction of black holes with the discovery of a compact object at the centre of our galaxy. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us

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00:39:56

Look Up! October 2020

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2020/09/28

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the discovery of phosphine on Venus - a potential sign of life and gets a chance to speak to Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder who is one of the researchers involved in the study! We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start

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00:24:34

Look Up! September 2020

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2020/09/01

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about a proposed explanation for the dimming of the star Betelgeuse that was observed in late 2019 and into early 2020. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!

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00:28:53

Look Up! August 2020

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2020/07/31

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the recent launches of new spacecraft to Mars and explores the history of Mars exploration. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!

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00:26:56

Look Up! July 2020

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2020/06/30

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the discovery of either the heaviest known neutron star or the lightest blackhole - an object found in the mass gap of stellar remnants. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!

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00:24:13

Look Up! June 2020

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2020/05/28

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the cosmic 'chicken or the egg' question of which came first - galaxies or the supermassive black holes that lie at their hearts? We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!

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00:25:32

Look Up! May 2020

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2020/04/29

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the age old question of where did life first begin on Earth? We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!

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00:23:18

Look Up! April 2020

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2020/03/30

Royal Observatory Astronomer Dhara takes you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the longstanding question of how the Earth got its Moon. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of the month!

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00:37:47

Look Up! March 2020

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2020/02/26

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara talks about the end of the Spitzer Space Telescope mission and Patricia talks about the iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' image and Carl Sagan. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!

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00:30:02

Look Up February 2020

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2020/01/29

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Patricia discusses the dimming of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and Dhara talks about how our Solar System may have got its Great Divide. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start

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00:35:04

Look Up! January 2020

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2020/01/02

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Patricia discusses the fizzing lakes of Saturn's largest moon Titan and Dhara talks about a recently discovered ultra-massive black hole. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!

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00:40:55

Look Up! December 2019

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2019/11/28

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Dhara reveals that when it comes to a galaxies spin direction, size does matter and Patricia explores how the detection of liquid water from Jupiter's moon Europa has scientists very excited. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your

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00:35:45

Look Up! November 2019

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2019/11/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Greg takes us through the insights into planet formation provided by our most powerful submillimetre telescope, ALMA, and Patricia asks the question "Why was our first close-up image of the red planet's surface coloured in with pastels?". Plus this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on

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00:30:57

Look Up! October 2019

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2019/10/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Accompanying a round-up of this month's astronomical highlights, Patricia discusses crashes in space as we consider the history and the danger of asteroid impacts on our world and others, while Greg brings us the news of a habitable zone planet with water in its atmosphere - but is it actually suitable for life? Join us on Twitter

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00:31:45

Look Up! September 2019

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2019/09/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this month's podcast, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune with a recap of the Voyager missions history and a look forward to its future, and we discuss a star almost devoid of iron, showing key signs of being a member of the missing link in the ancestry of stars, the elusive Population III stars. Plus,

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00:33:49

Look Up! August 2019

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2019/08/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, healing serious injuries in space may become much easier soon as Patricia lets us know about 3D bioprinting, and things get theoretical with Greg as he talks about the concept of dark stars, some of the biggest and brightest stars in the Universe, powered by dark matter! Plus a run-down of what to see in the sky this month! Join

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