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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Launching Naked Astronomy

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Technology, Health & Fitness, Naked Scientists

4.6893 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Thrusting space science into the audio dimension, this week the Naked Scientists unveil a new series for 2010 - Naked Astronomy. Hosted by Ben Valsler together with Cambridge space scientists Carolin Crawford, Andrew Pontzen, Dominic Ford and a host of other cosmologically-gifted contributors, this new monthly programme brings the Universe to your ears. Further episodes of the show are available at nakedscientists.com/astronomy Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

So, so, so skin.

0:02.0

Keep your good going and breeze through busy days with mullah lights.

0:08.0

Now with a new thicker recipe with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Or go on then? Mull a light, get the good going.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to 2010. We're kicking off this new year with the launch of a

0:28.2

brand new program called Naked Astronomy. The show is supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council who

0:34.8

support UK Space Science and also by Cambridge University's 800th anniversary team.

0:40.6

With help of both of them, we've got together a group of budding space scientists to help us take a look at what's out there.

0:47.0

Naked Astronomy will come out every month. You can get it free from iTunes or from our website at the

0:52.4

Naked Scientist.com

0:53.9

slash astronomy. Right now, time for lift off.

0:57.6

Thrusting space science into the audio dimension.

1:02.1

This is naked astronomy a new space science podcast from the Naked Scientists.

1:25.0

I'm Ben Valzler and each month I'll be delving into the latest astronomical and cosmological

1:29.9

news, meeting some of the world's finest space researchers, and tackling your cosmic questions.

1:36.4

This month we'll be hearing about the first light data from the Blank Mission, the mapping of Mercury

1:41.2

and why NASA revisited the Moon,

1:43.5

both to smash a rocket into it and to take some photos.

1:47.0

Yeah, so they've taken several images and it depends on how the sunlight's striking the surface

1:50.8

and some you can actually see the pads of the the lunar module

1:54.5

from Apollo 11 those famous pads that Neil Armstrong stepped from.

1:58.3

We're joined by Professor Ian Wright to talk about the challenges of

2:02.0

intercepting an

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