Look Up!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Aman and Jess take 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, Aman talks about NASA starting a study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), while Jess updates us on the Europa Clipper mission. 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!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Jake take 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, Jake talks about the image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, while Jess explores the history of space crime. 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!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Jake and Patricia take 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, Jake talks about the largest comet ever discovered, while Patricia explains the weird and wonderful way that sound travels on Mars. 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! Don't miss out on the wonders of the night sky this month:

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Jake take 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, Patricia talks about the legacy of solar physicist Eugene Parker, while Jake dives into the first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. 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! Don't miss out on the wonders of the night sky this month: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/astronomy/night-sky-highlights-april-2022

Royal Observatory Astronomer Jake takes 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, Jake talks about the one year anniversary of NASA's Perseverance Rover's successful landing on Mars, featuring audio of the winds of Mars. (Credit: NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/) 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!

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky for the final month of 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. But wait, there's more; they also bring two exciting stories that have recently broken in the world of astronomy and space science to the table. Bryony talks about the stellar beginnings of heavier elements, particularly those that are important for us, while Patricia discusses her past life of studying eclipsing binary stars and some new research recently published about the bright star(s) Algol. Which of these piques your interest the most? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/astronomy/night-sky-highlights-december-2021 Article mentioned by Bryony: https://theconversation.com/your-smiles-cosmic-history-we-discovered-the-origin-of-fluoride-in-early-galaxies-169562

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomer Bryony is going it alone this month, letting you know what to look out for in the night sky this November 2021 in our family-friendly Look Up! podcast. As for our cosmic news, this month Bryony talks about NASA's newest mission, the Lucy mission, launched October 16th, and explains where it's going, what it's looking for, and where its (rather adorable) name comes from! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/astronomy/night-sky-highlights-november-2021

Join Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia to hear about what's up in the sky in October 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. But wait, there's more! Bryony and Patricia both leave the solar system to discuss recent astronomical breakthroughs, discussing the fiery ends of stars. Bryony looks at the smaller end, how white dwarf stars may not be as docile as we used to think, while Patricia talks about a new kind of supernova involving the most massive of objects. Which one is your favourite? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-october-2021

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia tell you what to look out for the night sky in September 2021, as well as giving you the run down on a couple of astronomical news stories from August in our family-friendly Look Up! podcast. This month Patricia brings her love of Star Trek to the forefront and talks about how NASA are celebrating the 100th birthday of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, while Bryony delves into the quantum realm, revealing the solution to a paradox that has puzzled solar physicists for over 20 years. Which story is your favourite? Head to our twitter @ROGAstronomers to vote in our poll at the start of September! NASA's tribute to Gene Roddenberry: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-helps-celebrate-star-trek-creator-gene-roddenberrys-centennial Solar paradox solved after 20 years: https://phys.org/news/2021-08-year-old-paradox-solar-physics.html Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog which will be live from September: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky this August 2021 as well as a few astronomical news stories from July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. As for our cosmic news, this month Bryony talks about the first ever measurement of isotopes in the atmosphere of an exoplanet and how they may give us insight into where and how it formed, while Patricia discusses the recent Hubble telescope glitch and why it is perhaps a bit of a wake-up call. Which story is your favourite? Head to our twitter @ROGAstronomers to vote in our poll at the start of August! First measurement of isotopes around an exoplanet's atmosphere: https://phys.org/news/2021-07-isotopes-atmosphere-exoplanet.html Hubble catastrophe (and fix): https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-returns-to-full-science-observations-and-releases-new-images Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-august-2021

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky this July 2021 as well as a few astronomical news stories from June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month Patricia talks about the newest images coming from Juno, NASA's mission to Jupiter, and what they are revealing about the largest moon of our Solar System, Ganymede, while Bryony discusses the recent dimming (and subsequent re-brightening) of the red supergiant Betelgeuse, sadly concluding that it was not a harbinger of supernovae. :( Juno images: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/see-the-first-images-nasas-juno-took-as-it-sailed-by-ganymede Betelgeuse's dimming: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01526-6 Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-july-2021

Join Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia as they give you a guide to the night sky in June 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. But wait, there's more! Bryony and Patricia also nerd out over two recent astronomy/space science related news stories, and this month is no exception. Bryony starts us off by talking about the Voyager 1 probe and its journey through interstellar space, while Patricia stays a little closer to home, telling us some of what's been going on with the Perseverance Rover on the red planet. Which is your favourite? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/astronomy/night-sky-highlights-june-2021

Join Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia as they give you a guide to the night sky in May 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Not only that but they will then bring their favourite astronomical news stories from the previous month to the table and do their best to break them down. Patricia starts us off this month, talking about the Mars Insight lander and the exciting possibility of Mars-quakes, while Bryony bends our brains and discusses some recent events in the weird world of particle physics, and why some recent experimental results are both less and more exciting than you may have at first thought. Which is your favourite? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/astronomy/night-sky-highlights-may-2021

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky in April 2021 in this Look Up! podcast. But wait, there's more! Bryony and Patricia also discuss two of their favourite astronomical news stories from March 2021. Bryony kicks off by talking about 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object that we ever observed in our Solar System, explaining why it may have been premature to declare that it was an alien spaceship, and Patricia follows up by describing how an apparent malfunction on the Juno spacecraft may have solved the mystery of the zodiacal light. Which is your favourite? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-april-2021

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 her best to explain a new theory about the formation of supermassive black holes. Which of these do you find the most interesting? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-march-2021

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 galaxy, and how they appear to be following a pattern well-known to sports fans... Which of these do you find the most interesting? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-february-2021

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 and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Quick note: in this podcast Bryony repeatedly says that work from Arecibo Observatory has won multiple Nobel Prizes, which may be misleading; direct observations from Arecibo have only won a single Nobel Prize (and it was for the discovery of the first *binary pulsar, not first pulsar!), but many observations from Arecibo have pointed scientists to explore something that they might not otherwise, and those subsequent observations have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

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 poll at the start of the month! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: https://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night-sky-highlights-december-2020 Links to more information for each of the stories: Dust storms driving evaporation of water on Mars Paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6518/824 News article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/martian-dust-storms-parch-planet-driving-water-space Glow-in-the-dark Europa Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01248-1 News article: htt

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 on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story at the start of the month!

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 of the month!