Episodes
May 6, 2021
Space Blobs
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Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 251 with Professor Fred Watson & A…
April 29, 2021
RIP Michael Collins
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 250 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
●RIP Michael Collins – friend of the show
●Questions from our listeners – Cassandra, Ryan, Graham, Paddy, Alyssa, Ralph…
April 22, 2021
Historic Achievement
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 249 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
●History is made – the Ingenuity update……
●An update on Australia’s Square Kilometer Array – and it’s good news.
●For s…
April 15, 2021
Have We Got the Universal Model Wrong?
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 248 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
●A quick Ingenuity update…
●Have we got the universal model wrong? It’s possible…analysing the particle physics…
●New f…
April 8, 2021
History In the Making
Space Nuts 247 Show Notes
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 247 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
● The latest on Ingenuities adventures on mars…the first flight preparations are well underwa…
April 1, 2021
Magnetism
Space Nuts 246 Show Notes
April 2021
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 246 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
● Fred’s road trip to Adelaide, South Australia. So, what was he doing there?
…
March 25, 2021
You Asked - We Answer
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 245 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Questions from our Global Community
●Another episode where we focus exclusively on our global audience’s questions…and …
March 19, 2021
The One with the Cockatoos
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 244 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
The One with the Cockatoos
●The Perseverance Rover Update.
●Turns out exo-asteroids could be quite common, much more so…
March 11, 2021
At Warp Speed
Space Nuts Episode 243 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
At Warp Speed
●Another busy week on Mars…we have another Perseverance Rover Update.
●Organic materials essential for life have been found on an asteroid. Fre…
March 4, 2021
Revists
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 242 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Now What?
●The latest on the Perseverance Rover on Mars – it’s been a busy week on the Red Planet.
●Old research revisi…
Feb. 25, 2021
Now What
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 241 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Now What?
●The Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars on schedule and as planned. But now what?
●The Gaia Space Observat…
Feb. 18, 2021
It's Question Time
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 240 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Question Time
●This whole episode is devoted to answering many of the questions we receive from our listeners. Fred has…
Feb. 11, 2021
Mars - The UAE Mission
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 239 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Mars – The UAE Mission
●The UAE Mars Mission…even though Andrew keeps calling it the Moon mission…heaven knows where hi…
Feb. 4, 2021
Mars
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 238 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Mars - A Primer
●Probing the Martian Atmosphere – from a time when it was warm and wet.
● Getting to Mars faster….an…
Jan. 28, 2021
The TOI-178 System
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 237 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
The TOI-178 System
●The discovery of some new exoplanets that are proving to be a bit of a mystery. So, what’s going on…
Jan. 21, 2021
Protected
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 236 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Protected
●Passing of a new law protecting historic space history sites.
●Detecting gravitational waves using an observ…
Jan. 14, 2021
'the need for speed'
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 235 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
‘a need for speed’
●A need for speed – wondering why 2020 seemed to move along so quickly? Fred knows why…
● Chines…
Dec. 24, 2020
Buffering
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 234 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
Buffering
- In this episode, Andrew throws questions from listeners at Fred without notice. And Fred answers them...is…
Dec. 17, 2020
The Great Conjunction
Space Nuts Episode 233 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
‘The Great Conjunction’
- The great conjunction...so what’s so important about this rare celestial event?
- The link between radio bursts and the flares of…
Dec. 10, 2020
Welcome Home!
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 232 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
- Hayabusa 2 successfully returns….Fred explains why this mission was so important.
- NASA’s plans to contract out th…
Dec. 3, 2020
A New Atlas of the Universe
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 231 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
- The Australian CSIRO Million Galaxies Survey from ASKAP (The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) has spect…
Nov. 26, 2020
RIP Arecibo Observatory
Space Nuts podcast Episode 230 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
- RIP Arecibo. Fred discusses the importance of the venerable site...and what it’s loss will mean.
- Listener questions galore...this episode we fe…
Nov. 19, 2020
A SpaceX Delivery
Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 229 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
- SpaceX delivers four astronauts to the ISS in a historic mission.
- Now there’s a use for old rocket bodies...
- A…
Nov. 12, 2020
The Dish
Space Nuts Episode 228 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
- The Parkes Radio Telescope, made famous by the movie ‘The Dish’ is in the news. Fred explains why…
- The Galah Project has thrown up some interesting new…