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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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Look Up! June 2019

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2019/06/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, Patricia answers the question "What does Charlie Brown have to do with the Guinness World Record for fastest speed of a human?" as we continue our build up to the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings! Meanwhile Greg looks to the future of protecting Earth from meteors, without Bruce Willis' help of course! Join us on Twitter

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00:39:32

Look Up! April 2019

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2019/04/06

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, a look back to the tragic story of Apollo 1 as Patricia explains Northrop Grumman's recent dedication of its Cygnus spacecraft to astronaut Roger Chaffee, while Greg looks at much longer journeys as he talks about hypervelocity stars, objects being ejected from our home galaxy out into the depths of space. Join us on Twitter

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00:38:31

Look Up! March 2019

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2019/02/28

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this edition of Look Up!, we take a look at the legacy of the little rover that could, NASA's Opportunity rover, and a story of the one of the longest round trips a rock could make, as Big Bertha, a rock collected from the surface of the Moon, turns out to have possibly come from Earth after all! Also, see what the sky has to offer in

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00:34:44

Look Up! February 2019

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2019/02/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month on Look Up!, Greg discusses news of the Moon, with the recent Chang'e 4 mission and a look at meteoroid impacts on the Moon during the recent lunar eclipse, while Patricia tells us about exciting citizen science, the discovery of an unusual planet by members of the general public! Plus a round-up of the month's astronomical

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00:33:43

Look Up! January 2019

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2019/01/08

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Bringing in the New Year, we have two new stories from the world of Astronomy! Greg talks to us about the ongoing hunt for Dark Matter and how some of the faintest light in the sky may be the key to its understanding, while new Royal Observatory astronomer Patricia reveals the incredible insights of the New Horizons probe as it passed by

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00:37:46

Look Up! December 2018

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2018/11/29

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this festive season, as relatives gather for all kinds of celebrations, we look at two families in the cosmos! Dhara gives us an overview of the our current missions on Mars, our own robotic family: those ending, those still going and those that are only just beginning! Meanwhile, Greg tells us about astronomers' ongoing search for our

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00:35:07

Look Up! November 2018

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2018/10/31

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month find out how lucky we are to be around a relatively quiet star as Greg discusses how flaring red dwarf stars might spell doom for planets around them and Dhara looks into the giants of the Universe, supermassive black holes; only this time, there's two of them. Violent mini stars, binary black holes and an update on the health of

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00:35:52

Look Up! October 2018

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2018/10/01

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month it's an exoplanet double bill, with Dhara giving us an update on the habitability of Proxima Centauri b, a world around our nearest neighbouring star, and Greg tells us about the brand new planet-hunter TESS which has already found its first planet! Plus there's a bonus story about the possible discovery of a certain planet of

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00:41:47

Look Up! September 2018

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2018/08/31

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara 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 episode, Greg tells us about the recent launch of the NASA Parker Solar Probe, soon to be the fastest object ever made by humans, and Dhara helps us celebrate the 15th birthday of the hugely successful Spitzer space telescope with a rundown of its greatest discoveries to date! Don't forget to join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and

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00:31:21

Look Up! August 2018

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2018/07/31

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, Dhara tells us about the discovery of 12 new moons of Jupiter bringing the total up to 79, while Greg talks about only the third time in history that a cosmic neutrino has been traced back to its source. Take a guess at what that might be...... As usual, join us on Twitter to vote for your favourite story @ROGAstronomers!

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00:28:06

Look Up! July 2018

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2018/06/28

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month we discuss a trio of stories from the rovers on Mars, including possible evidence of life, and talk about the discovery of a flare from a rare intermediate mass black hole!

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00:26:46

Look Up! June 2018

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2018/05/30

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month, we discuss two recent news stories that caught our eye in the world of astronomy. This month, we talk about the formation of the ravioli-shaped moons of Saturn and the vast new catalogue of data from the Gaia mission to survey the Galaxy! Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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00:31:30

Look Up May 2018

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2018/04/27

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astronomy news story to chat about. This month, we discuss the very unexpected finding of a galaxy which is thought to have no dark matter and the detection of a glitch in the regular beating pulse of a spinning neutron star also known as a pulsar. Vote for your favourite on Twitter:

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00:36:51

Look Up! April 2018

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2018/03/28

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astronomy news story to explore. This month, we discuss the numerous discoveries about Jupiter made by the aptly-named Juno space probe and we talk about the 'reanimation' of a long dead neutron star. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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00:34:35

Look Up! March 2018

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2018/02/27

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story. This month hear about the most recent developments on the first detected interstellar visitor to our solar system, the asteroid Oumuamua, and learn how astronomers think they may have found a vast population of exoplanets in a galaxy halfway across the Universe with a little

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00:26:02

Look Up February 2018

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2018/01/25

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the first time details on a star's surface have been observed - until now, our Sun in the only star we have ever seen details on. The second story is all about a newly proposed definition for a planet which includes setting an upper limit to its

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00:33:39

Look Up January 2018

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2017/12/31

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about how clay minerals on Mars may have formed in a primordial steam bath before any liquid water may have flowed on the Martian surface and the discovery of the most distant supermassive black hole that’s been detected to date. Vote for your

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00:26:32

Look Up December 2017

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2017/11/30

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the 100th anniversary of the first evidence of exoplanets and the tale of an exploding star that refuses to die. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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00:31:07

Look Up October 2017

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2017/09/29

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the how the detection of Boron on Mars hints at the possibility of life on Mars in the past and the Cassini-Huygens space probe - some of the highlights from its 20 year mission. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers

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00:25:31

Look Up September 2017

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2017/08/31

Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the asteroid Apophis and how likely this Near-Earth object is to collide with the Earth and the launch of the first supercomputer to the International Space Station by SpaceX - dubbed the Spaceborne Computer. Vote for your favourite on

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