Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz205holiday-skyguide/Dr Ian Musgrave gives us his fabulous Holiday SkyGuide where he tell us all the beautiful sights that are in store for us over December and January.Most of the planetary action is at family-friendly times in the evening skies.We have Venus Jupiter and Saturn all at their best these holidays, a meteor shower still ..read more

In this our two hundred and fourth episode of Astrophiz, we’re going to listen in to another fabulous Astro podcast that you should subscribe to.Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz204-dr-elaina-hyde-the-york-universe-podcast Regular listeners will remember back to Episode 57 in 2018 where we interviewed a wonderful data scientist and astrophysicist, Dr Elaina Hyde.  Elaina speaks four languages,  has four undergraduate degrees ..read more

Astronomy- The Astrophiz podcast with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/novemberskyguide2024 Moon Phases for November: 1 November – New Moon – ideal for stargazing 9 November – 1st Quarter Moon 14 November – Moon at perigee (closest) 16 November – Full Moon 23 November – Last Quarter Moon, also ideal for stargazing    26 November ..read more

Full transcript below Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/dr-genevieve-schroeder-radio-eyes-on-gamma-ray-burst-skies/s-EiZ6yDfTkCZ Meet Dr Genevieve Schroeder, a fabulous astrophysicist who does exciting research into GRBs …  Gamma Ray Bursts. A Gamma Ray Burst is the undisputed brightest-ever radiation coming from the most extreme  events in the universe … Specifically, Genevieve hunts down and understands how Gamma-ray Bursts are generated by the most cataclysmic events ..read more

Astrophiz 201: Dr Ian Musgrave’s October SkyGuide Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astronomy-astrophiz201-october-skyguide Thumbnails of recent Comet Pics ( Full size pics at bottom of this page )A. Kat Miller _ Brisbane QLDB. Rusty Mcgrath – Grampians, Vic Highlights: Comet C/2023 A3 has been observed and photographed embedded in the eastern morning twilight over the past week, but is now ..read more

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/september-skyguide Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his September SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. As usual Ian also gives us his ‘Tangent’ … this time al about Full Moons, Apogee moons and Perigee moons, and how an astrologer made a typo leading ..read more

Full Transcript below (coming soon) Meet the amazing Dr Tessa Vernstrom!Tessa is the Project Scientist for the Evolutionary Map of the Universe aka EMU survey using the ASKAP telescope. She is also the co-chair of the SKA Magnetism Science Working Group as well as lead in the POSSUM survey of the polarized radio sky. Listen: https://tinyurl.com/Tessainterview ..read more

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/august-skyguide Moon Phases for August New Moon – 4 August – best for seeing the faint fuzzies and clusters Apogee Moon furthest from Earth – 9 August 1st Quarter Moon – 13 August Full Moon – 20 August Perigee Moon closest to Earth – 21 August Last Quarter Moon – 26 August Evening Sky ..read more

FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW Today we have a brilliant interview for you as we speak with a fabulous Early Career Researcher, Dr Lauren Rhodes from the University of Oxford. Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz196-explosive-transients-dr-lauren-rhodes Lauren has just published a paper on the BOAT … the Brightest Object of All Time …  a “Once in 10,000 year event” The blast, called GRB 221009A, was over 100 billion times brighter than the sun. Lauren works in powerful collaborations which use a variety of radio interferometers, such as MeerKAT and e-MERLIN to study the ra ..read more

Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his July SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-195-july-skyguide And July is again also a wonderful month for celestial observers. As usual Ian gives us ‘Ian’s Tangent’ … and this month it’s all about the ‘Comet Ferret’, Charles Messier, and his famous catalog of 13 comets and 110 iconic ‘Messier Objects’ now known to be galaxies, nebulae and globular clusters. See if you can spot the ‘False Comet’ in the tail of Scorpius. Then Ian gives us ..read more