How to Stargaze
Nobody Panic
Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Stevie and Tessa learn all about stars and how to stargaze with Abigail Beall author of The Art of Urban Astronomy - featuring some excellent questions such as “What is the Milky Way?” and “How do people see stars from the Earth when they are such a long way away?” and “If aliens are really far away looking at us, won’t they be seeing into the past? So is the Earth covered in dinosaurs to them?”. Mind-blowing business.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to nobody panic, with me Stevie. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm me, Tessa, and today we're coming to you live from the Astronomy Tower. From space. We're going to space. We're going to space. We're on the |
| 0:26.9 | the space shuttle. We're doing stargazing live. I'm so excited about this episode. |
| 0:33.0 | But yes, we are a podcast. We will try and help you with things. |
| 0:36.0 | This week we thought Christmasy, sure. |
| 0:39.0 | Star gazing, that's Christmasy. |
| 0:41.0 | And we got a message from Ab Abigail Abby Beal who is the freelance science |
| 0:46.8 | journalist and the author of the art of urban astronomy a guide to stargazing wherever you are. Yes, please. Abby, how are you? I'm good, thank you, |
| 0:55.7 | thanks so much for having me. Oh my God, thank you for coming on. |
| 0:59.1 | When you said, can I come on and talk about stars we're like yes yes anytime any yes obviously yes |
| 1:06.1 | Before we start though do you have an adult thing for this week? Yeah I do so last week I chatted to Brian May. Oh my God what for? What was the what was the thing? What for? So he also apart from being like the guitarist and Queen, he also has a PhD in astrophysics and he's got like a series, he's also really into 3D images. |
| 1:30.0 | So he's got a new book out which is like 3D pictures of Cosmic Clouds and I interviewed him about his book for wire so it's really it's really cool. He's really really nice man. |
| 1:42.0 | Oh my God! |
| 1:44.0 | Did you do it over Zoom? |
| 1:45.0 | Could you see his big hair? |
| 1:47.0 | No, I couldn't. |
| 1:48.0 | It was just on the phone. |
| 1:49.0 | But you could feel that his big hair was there, like I guess. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, yeah, that was the vibe. That's so cool. Oh God who did you interview him? Where did you |
| 1:59.3 | publish your piece or where will it be published? It will be on Wired. Oh my God you're such a cool girl that's |
| 2:08.2 | Wired is such a cool. Oh God just Wired is such a cool magazine. So you've already set your bar out as being very cool. So go on, impress us more. |
| 2:17.0 | Let's take that into stargazing. |
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