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

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz194-explosive-neutron-stars/s-LN5j3IQcsQO Today we have a brilliant show for you as we speak with Associate Professor Duncan Galloway from Monash University in Australia. His research involves the rarest, most powerful and cataclysmic events that occur in our universe. Neutron stars colliding! Transcript: < Music: Pulsar spinning up, Gravitational Waves chirps> Brendan: Welcome to the Astrophiz Podcasts! My name is Brendan O’Brien and first of all we would like to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land we are on ..read more

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz193-june-skyguide-and-astrophotography-challenge Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his June SkyGuide …  telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. And June is also a wonderful month for celestial observers, especially the early risers amongst us As usual Ian gives us his ‘Tangent’ … and this month it’s all about how animals respond to celestial appearances and then he gives us his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cam ..read more

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz192-pulsars-stripped-bare Today we’re speaking with Dr. Marcus Lower, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Australia’s National Science Agency, the CSIRO. His research primarily focuses on pulsars … rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles. He’s the principal investigator of a Pulsar Timing Project, which uses the CSIRO, Parkes Murriyang radio telescope to understand the long-term behaviour of neutron stars and how they can be used to study the interstellar medium. Marcus is the lead auth ..read more

Astrophiz 191: May SkyGuide Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz191_may_skyguide_astrophotographychallenge Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his May SkyGuide …  telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. And May is a wonderful month for celestial observers, especially the early risers amongst us As usual Ian gives us his ‘Tangent’ … and this month it’s all about the depiction of Comets throughout history and then he gives us his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake ..read more

Astrophiz 190: The Extreme Death of Stars Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/prof-katie-auchettl-the-extreme-death-of-stars Enjoy this great interview with Professor  Katie Auchettl, who is the Associate Professor of Astrophysics and Physics at Melbourne University.  Katie is an observational astrophysicist whose research focuses on the extreme death of stars. Katie has worked on a sensational book for aspiring astrophysicists that’s just been freely published on the Archive (ArXiv) Server. The book is called: “Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists”  ..read more

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz189-april-skyguide Transcript below Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his April SkyGuide …  telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. Included are references to the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse transecting diagonally right across continental USA. As usual Ian gives us his ‘Tangent’ about Fungi on the ISS Also Ian is continuing his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras. This month our challenge is to capture Comet 12P/Po ..read more

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/prof-orsola-de-marco-dancing-with-the-stars Transcript below: Scroll Down Prof. Orsola De Marco is a Professor at Macquarie University and Deputy-Director of the  Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney. She obtained her PhD at University College London as a Perren Scholar, after which she was a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow at ETH Zurich, a FUSE Fellow at University College London and Asimov Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She was an ARC Future Fe ..read more

Full Transcript below: Scroll down Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz187-march-skyguide Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his March SkyGuide …  telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. He also gives us his ‘Tangent’ about perigee and apogee Moons. Also Ian is continuing his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras. This month it’s imaging Vesta and learning how to use the free Deep Sky Stacker software TRANSCRIPT: Welcome  to  the  2024&nbs ..read more