The Jodcast

Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
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Apr 1, 2020 • 46min

Month 4 2020

Keeping It Simple. In the show this time, we talk to Stewart Eyres about his study of a star that blew up a long time ago [03:48 - 21:30], Luke Hart rounds up the news that has happened in the near past [01:11-03:41] and we find out what we can see in the Month 4 night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [29:00 - 44:52].
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Mar 16, 2020 • 1h 20min

March 2020

Kaboom. In the show this time, we talk to Rebecca Bowler about galaxies in the early universe [04:09.0 - 20:25.5], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest news [00:54.5-04:02.5] and we find out what we can see in the March night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [1:00:00.1 - 1:18:13.5].
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Feb 19, 2020 • 1h 36min

February 2020

A Fond Farewell. In the show this time, we talk to Anais Moller about machine learning to find supernovae for cosmology [04:42.00 - 26:19.20], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest news [01:13.00-04:34.00] and we find out what we can see in the February night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [35:57.00 - 1:34:57.00].
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Jan 27, 2020 • 2h 1min

January 2020

Now You See It... In the show this time, we talk to Alexandre Lazarian about magnetic fields in astronomy [07:38 - 30:49], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [00:48 - 07:31] and we find out what we can see in the January night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [01:16:52 - 01:52:22].
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Dec 20, 2019 • 1h 15min

December 2019 Extra

Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Novae. In the show this time, we talk to Simon Johnston about Searching for pulsars [32:53.3 - 46:54.0], Laura Driessen tells us about the first new transient source discovered with the MeerKAT telescope, a flaring stellar system in this month's JodBite [10:37.3 - 32:44.00], and your astronomy questions are answered by Iain Mcdonald in Ask an Astronomer [47:01.8 - 01:00:37.5].
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Dec 10, 2019 • 1h 35min

December 2019

Who's afraid of big, bad numbers? In the show this time, we talk to Bobby Seagull about the mathematics of astronomy and popularising maths among the public [07:30.46 - 52:26.84], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [01:32.27-07:15.94] and we find out what we can see in the December night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [57:26.00 - 1:34:16].
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Nov 15, 2019 • 1h 9min

November 2019

Baby Black Holes and Blobs. In the show this time, we talk to Connor Smith about searching for blobs in the submillimetre regime [05:53 - 21:19], Fiona Porter rounds up the latest news [01:10 - 05:46] and we find out what we can see in the November night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [38:30 - 01:07:38].
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Oct 24, 2019 • 51min

October 2019 Extra

Mission to Transition. In the show this time, we talk to Atsuhisa Ota about his work studying anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background [10:02 - 17:02], Shahbaz Chaudhry tells us about the coronal heating problem in this month's JodBite [01:17 - 09:54], and your astronomy questions are answered by George Bendo in Ask an Astronomer [43:45 - 49:28].
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Oct 11, 2019 • 57min

October 2019

Worlds Big and Small. In the show this time, we talk to Sadie Jones about her outreach work at the University of Southampton [03:58 - 14:57], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest news [00:48 - 03:48] and we find out what we can see in the October night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [27:55 - 55:34].
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Sep 13, 2019 • 1h 34min

September 2019

Circling in. In the show this time, we talk to Fabio Antonini about modelling gravitational wave sources[08:57 - 26:09], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [01:04 - 08:50] and we find out what we can see in the September night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [56:52 - 01:31:35].

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