Look Up!

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 our aging fleet of satellites and probes: all on this month's Look Up! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story! Update: The day after recording this podcast, NASA's Kepler satellite was officially declared out of fuel, bringing an end to this fantastic and incredibly successful mission.

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 sci-fi significance.... Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

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 vote for your favourite story!

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!

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!

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.

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: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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.

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 help from Einstein's famous theories. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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 mass. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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 favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

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.

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 #ROGSchools.

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 Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about a surprising case of ‘indigestion’ in a supermassive black hole and how hidden stars could affect what we know about 50 already discovered exoplanets. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast. This month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite news stories: the Kepler telescope's great discoveries to date in its search for exoplanets and new evidence to support the Sun had a twin 4.5 billion years ago. Vote for your favourite on our Twitter poll @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools

Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about anti-matter and anti-gravity and the latest discoveries from the Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month Radmila and Dhara pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the 27th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope and five of its amazing achievements along with the discovery of hydrogen molecules spewing out from Enceladus (one of Saturn’s moons), providing more support for alien life in its sub-surface ocean. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast. Every month Radmila and Dhara each pick their favourite news story. Their news stories for this month include 7 potentially habitable worlds around a star called Trappist-I and a possible new stellar event called an imposter supernova – let us know your favourite! Vote via Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools

Royal Observatory Astronomers Radmila and Dhara take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! Podcast. Each month Radmila and Dhara each pick their favourite news story. Which will be your favourite - a giant black hole in a cluster of galaxies blowing bubbles of gas and feeding itself or the possibility of finding habitable exomoons? Vote via Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools