Babbage from The Economist (subscriber edition) Mark McCaughrean: the astronomer’s guide to the cosmos
Fancy taking a trip to outer space? Explore the most extraordinary corners of the universe with astronomer Mark McCaughrean as your tour guide. In this episode, he tells us about everything from the curious clouds and comets in our own solar system, to distant stellar nurseries and whether or not we should be worried that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is on a collision course with a neighbour, Andromeda.
Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor. Guest: Mark McCaughrean of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the author of “111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss”.
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