The Jodcast is an astronomy podcast created by students and staff from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The episodes include the latest astronomy news...
Shining a Light on Dark Matter. In December's episode, we have delved into the archive for an interview with Grace Lawrence from 2022; she talks with Jonathan and Imogen about her work in dark matter detection. Nastassia and Louisa answer some listeners’ questions in Ask an Astronomer, delving into wormhole exit points and pringle-shaped universes.
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November 2024
Exploring Exoplanets with JWST. In November's episode, Mel talks to Dr Hannah Wakeford on her work in the field of exoplanets, utilising JWST to delve into planetary atmospheres. For our Jodbite, we talk to postdoc Dr Aishrila Mazumder about her research mapping hydrogen.
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October 2024
How to build your own radio telescope!. In this episode, Louisa talks to Dr. Danny Jacobs about radio cosmology and the physical challenges that face building and operating radio telescopes today. In October’s Jodbite, Honor and Phoebe talk about their masters projects, and it’s all things lunar with back-to-back moon news.
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September 2024
Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs, and Semantics. In the show this time, Mél Azombo interviews Dr. Ed Gillen about the evolution of stellar and planetary systems, we review the status of each of the next-generation optical/near-infrared telescopes currently under construction, and George Bendo answers an ask an astronomer question about the difference between exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
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July 2024
To celebrate the first images from the Euclid Mission, we are doing a special Euclid episode
The Jodcast is an astronomy podcast created by students and staff from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The episodes include the latest astronomy news, interviews with astronomers, stargazing information, and more.
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