Naked Astronomy
Thrusting Space Science into the Audio Dimension... We look at the latest news from the stars, planets and other heavenly bodies. Plus interviews with professional astronomers and the answers to your space science questions.
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Naked Astronomy AstroFest Special - Naked Astronomy 12.02.25 -
Is an asteroid impact more likely than winning the lottery? ...
Is an asteroid impact more likely than winning the lottery? What can Moon rock tell us about the Earth? And how did a biology teacher discover a new astronomical object? In this Naked Astronomy AstroFest special, we'll ask if the Kepler observator...
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Meeting MIRI and Detecting Dark Matter - Naked Astronomy 12.01.25 -
Can a mid-infra red view reveal the universe's secrets? In ...
Can a mid-infra red view reveal the universe's secrets? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we meet MIRI, the Mid Infra Red Instrument set to launch on the James Webb Space Telescope. It should give us a glimpse of the very first galaxies and examine ...
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Seeing Your House from the Space Station - Naked Astronomy 11.12.20 -
If you could look down from the International Space Station, ...
If you could look down from the International Space Station, what would you look at? This month on Naked Astronomy, we discover UrtheCast - a system that could let you point a camera down from the International Space Station, and integrate your socia...
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Stars and Supernovae - Naked Astronomy 11.11.25 -
Can supernovae account for all of the oxygen in the ...
Can supernovae account for all of the oxygen in the universe? What happens to massive stars at the end of their lives? This month, we delve into stellar science to look at the ultimate fate of stars, and why the first stars might be smaller than we...
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Blue Stragglers and the Polarised Universe - Naked Astronomy 11.10.25 -
What are the mysterious blue straggler stars? In this month's ...
What are the mysterious blue straggler stars? In this month's Naked Astronomy we'll find out why some stars stand out from the crowd, as well as investigate the polarity of the universe. Plus, we hear the latest news from the Royal Astronomical Soc...
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Dark Planets and Dark Matter - Naked Astronomy 11.09.25 -
Are the foundations of Dark Matter crumbling? How can a ...
Are the foundations of Dark Matter crumbling? How can a planet be blacker than black paint? What are the sunsets like on a planet with 2 suns? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we'll discover Kepler-16b; a planet with two suns, we look to recent e...
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The Year In Space Science - Naked Astronomy 11.07.25 -
We look back over the last few months of Astronomy ...
We look back over the last few months of Astronomy interviews. We'll hear how scientists search for planets in the glare of their parent star, why a simulated mission to Mars will help us to understand how astronauts will cope with isolation, and t...
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Star Death, STEREO & South Africa's SKA bid - Naked Astronomy 11.06.25 -
What happens when a black hole rips a star to ...
What happens when a black hole rips a star to shreds? What can a solar science mission tell us about other stars? And is South Africa prepared for the largest radio telescope ever planned? This month on Naked Astronomy, we explore a unique gamma ...
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The Birth of Sunspots and Black Hole Collisions - Naked Astronomy 11.05.25 -
How are sunspots born? What does a black hole collision ...
How are sunspots born? What does a black hole collision look like? How long does it take to make a full-size galaxy? This month on Naked Astronomy, we find out why people searching for pulsars might spot colliding black holes in their data, how ga...
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The National Astronomy Meeting 2011 - Naked Astronomy 11.04.22 -
In this special podcast from the National Astronomy Meeting in ...
In this special podcast from the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, we hear how twisted sunspots cause solar flares, how 17th century poetry can put a date on a supernova, and why some pulsars are part-timers. We'll find out how CANDELS and LO...
