
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Jodcast of 2007. We start, as always, with a round up of the past month in astronomy. We talk to Martin Hardcastle about active galactic nuclei and radio galaxies (see the fantastic cover art by Aurore Simonnet for an idea of what they look like). We also gate-crashed a recent meeting about the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to find out what it is as well as finding out about the two proposed sites. We have no ask an astronomer this month but Ian is here to tell us what we can see in January's night sky. We also get a round up of interesting astronomy podcasts and set our first ever competition. You'll have to listen to find out what the question is!
Show Links
- Find out what a mince pie is
- The best mince pies
- Enter the competition
- Cover art - Aurore Simonnet's original artwork of an active galactic nuclei
- spacePod from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Planetary Radio - Strange Invader: Steve Ostro Examines Near Earth Asteroid KW4
- NASACast - Launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery
- NASACast - views from the solid rocket booster cameras on mission STS-116, Dec. 9, 2006.
The news for January 2007
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- Stardust results
- GRB observations (Swift)
- Saturn's moon Titan (Cassini)
- UK Schmidt Telescope Planetary Nebula survey
- COROT spacecraft (ESA)
- COROT spacecraft (CNES)
Interview with Dr Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire)
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- Active Galactic Nuclei (University of Cambridge)
- Active Galactic Nuclei (Imagine the Universe)
- Centaurus A: A nearby elliptical galaxy with an active galactic nucleus imaged by Chandra (Chandra)
- The Very Large Array in New Mexico (NRAO)
- MERLIN (University of Manchester)
Interview with Prof Peter Wilkinson (Jodrell Bank Observatory)
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- The Very Large Array in New Mexico (NRAO)
- Square Kilometre Array Signing Ceremony in August 2000
- Square Kilometre Array Design Study (SKADS)
- What is a pulsar?
- General Relativity survives gruelling pulsar test
Interview with Prof Richard Schilizzi (International SKA Director)
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- Square Kilometre Array Telescope
- SKA Designs
Interview with Anita Loots (KAT Project Manager)
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- Square Kilometre Array in South Africa
- Karoo Array Telescope
Interview with Prof Brian Boyle (ATNF)
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- The Australasian SKA Consortium
- Proposed site for the core of the SKA at Mileura Station, Western Australia
- The City of Geraldton
The night sky for January 2007
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- Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for January 2007
Show Credits
News: | Megan Argo |
Notícias em Português - Janeiro 2007: | Valerio Ribeiro |
Nouvelles en Français - Janvier 2007: | Neil Vaytet |
News in Chinese: | Dandan Xu |
Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Dr Martin Hardcastle about active galactic nuclei |
Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Prof Peter Wilkinson about the SKA |
Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Prof Richard Schilizzi about the SKA |
Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Anita Loots about the SKA |
Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Prof Brian Boyle about the SKA |
Night sky this month: | Ian Morison |
Presenters: | David Ault and Stuart Lowe |
Editors: | Stuart Lowe and David Ault |
Cover Art: | Artists impression of an active galaxy - SSU NASA E/PO, Aurore Simonnet |
Website: | Stuart Lowe |
Intro/Outro Cast: | Steve Anderson |
Intro script: | Steve Anderson |
Cover art: | Artists impression of an active galaxy Credit: SSU NASA E/PO, Aurore Simonnet |