Radio Astronomy

If intelligent alien life did exist out there in the cosmos, how would we find it? This episode, astronomer Adam Frank discusses his latest book The Little Book of Aliens, reveals how scientists can now detect signs of life on other planets, discusses the implications of making contact, and what he really thinks about UFOs.       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comet 103P Hartley continues to pass across the sky, while Venus dominates the morning sky in this week’s stargazing guide. Listen now to catch all the week’s astronomy highlights. Transcription: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-16-oct-2023 Send in your astrophotos and we’ll print the best: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/send-us-your-astrophotos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We discuss how the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can reveal the earliest days of the Universe with cosmologist Ermina Calabrese from Cardiff University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comet 103P Hartley will streak its way across the sky this week, while Venus shines brightly in the morning sky. Listen now to catch all of this week’s stargazing highlights. Learn all about astrophotography in our upcoming online Masterclass, all about deep-sky imaging: https://bit.ly/SaNMCDSPod Transcript: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-9-oct-2023 Send in your astrophotos and we’ll print the best: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/send-us-your-astrophotos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Draconids meteor shower puts on a show and the Moon brushes past the Pleiades star cluster in this week’s stargazing guide. Listen now to catch all the week’s astronomy highlights. Transcription: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-2-oct-2023 Send in your astrophotos and we’ll print the best: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/send-us-your-astrophotos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Uranus lines up with Jupiter and the Pleiades this week, making it a great chance to see this faint planet. Find out how in our weekly stargazing guide. Capture a shadow cast by Venus: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/capture-a-shadow-cast-by-the-planet-venus Transcript: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-25-sept-2023.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The equinox signals the start of autumn, and Neptune reaches opposition. Find out what other astronomy highlights are coming up in our weekly stargazing guide. Find out more details about the equinox and causes it: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/autumn-equinox-when-is-what-means Transcript: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-18-sept-2023   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Professor Michele Dougherty reveals what we can learn by studying the magnetic fields of Solar System bodies, why the Cassini mission was so important, and what JUICE might discover at Jupiter's icy moons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back the winter sky, and take in the Milky Way as we take you through the astronomy highlights in our weekly stargazing guide. Learn all about astrophotography in our upcoming online Masterclass, all about deep-sky imaging: https://bit.ly/SaNMCDSPod Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-11-sept-2023 Astrophotography guide: Create a Milky Way mosaic: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/astrophotography-guide-create-milky-way-mosaic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 The Milky Way is on fabulous display this week as the Moon clears out of the evening sky, while the Moon passes close to the Pleiades in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript: www.skyatnightmagazine.co.uk/podcast/star-diary-4-sept-2023 How to see the Milky Way: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-to-see-the-milky-way Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the Super Blue Moon takes centre stage in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-28-august-2023/] What is a supermoon: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/supermoon-what-when-next Astrophotography image processing: a beginner’s guide: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/astrophotography-image-processing-beginners-guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Saturn’s rings are disappearing, so make sure you don’t miss the planet as it passes through opposition in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-21-august-2023/] Photograph Saturn’s rings before they disappear: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/photograph-saturn-rings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All four gas giants will be visible this week, as well as other highlights in our stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-14-august-2023/] Photograph Saturn’s rings before they disappear: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/photograph-saturn-rings/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Perseid meteor shower is due to put on a great show in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-7-august-2023/] How to see the meteors: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/meteor-showers-how-observe-record-shooting-stars/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first of August’s supermoons and the appearance of the Pleiades feature in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-31-july-2023/ ] Meteor observing [URL] https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/perseid-meteor-shower-how-to-see-it/ Stargazing in Utah [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/stargazing-utah/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Telescopes like JWST or the upcoming Square Kilometre Array have the power to reveal the hidden depths of the Universe. Their images contain not just the stars, galaxies and planets astronomers are looking for, but could contain all manner of hidden gems we have yet to even consider. However these observatories produce so much data it’s impossible to look through it all by hand and even citizen science projects like Zooniverse, which gets hundreds of volunteers to go through the data, could struggle to cope.  Alex Andersson from Oxford University is working on a new machine learning programme that could help work with humans to find the undiscovered mysteries of the Universe.  https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/alex-andersson/bursts-from-space-meerkat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keep an eye out for the three innermost planets just after sunset in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-24-july-2023/ ] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mishaal Ashemimry started her own aerospace company at the age of 26, aiming to build the space industry in her home nation of Saudi Arabia. Now she works as a special adviser to the Saudi Space Commission, who recently sent their first female astronaut into space on board the Axiom-2 mission. She is a keen promoter of women in the space industry, and is the President for diversity initiatives at the International Aeronautical Federation (IAF). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-17-july-2023/ ] How to see the ISS in the night sky [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-see-international-space-station-iss-night-sky/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pleiades return to the morning sky, while the Moon pairs up with Jupiter in this week’s stargazing guide. Transcript [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star-diary-10-july-2023/] Test your eyesight with the Pleiades [URL: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/electra/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices