Episodes

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 26... And in this episode we highlight and discuss three important recent discoveries: *Yet another dwarf planet has been (possibly) discovered beyond Neptune. *An unusual discovery...a plant ...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 25: In this episode Fred and I discuss and give some interesting background/insider information on: *the Juno mission to Jupiter (though I slip up and call it Mars...my obsession...oops:)) *The ...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 24 of Space Nuts with Dr. Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley.. Stories: *The European Space union are wanting to return to Mars to continue the hunt for signs of life...but they've run into a ...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 23. Stories covered and discussed: *More gravitational waves discovered...but what does it all mean? Fred explains... *Light Pollution...it's a really, really big problem. Learn more... *A...

Hi everyone, Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 22... Stories we cover in this episode: *There's been an update to the Drake equation...we discuss what it is and what it really means. * A fossil meteorite unlike any we've seen before...

Hi everyone, Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 21. Stories: *Update - Drilling of the so called 'Dinosaur Crater' in the Gulf Of Mexico has made some exciting discoveries. Fred has the latest. *The European Extremely Large Telescope...

Hi everyone, Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 20: Stories we cover include: *Building blocks of life found on 67P *Student to design experiments for ISS *Inflatable space habitats being tested Subscribe, rate and review at iTunes; audioB...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show notes for episode 19. Once again we demonstrate our fascination/love with Mars: *Mars is close...real close....to Earth (but not as close as it will be in 2018). *There's evidence that huge tsunamis may have...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 18. Stories covered in this episode: *Hundreds of Earth like planets announced. *Earth's magnetic field is weakening...so what does it mean? *Ancient lava bubbles reveal how our atmosph...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes for Episode 17... *3 Earth like planets have been discovered and the space community is very excited (I was going to say have gone nuts...but that might've been a bit obvious...) *What to look for ...

Hi... Andrew with the Show Notes for Episode 16 *First up..Fred has an update on the finding of the Beagle 2 Lander on Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...thought to be lost forever until recently (the Beagle 2 that is...). *We update the s...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the show notes for Episode 15: * Another look at and update on Planet Europa...the icy moon of Jupiter. * Exoplanets - we keep finding them and we keep finding out more about them. Dr. Fred has the latest. *Rocket seeds ...

Hi everyone...Andrew with the Show Notes: In episode 14 we take a look at the following stories: *Starshot - The space community has been buzzing since the announcement of a $100 million mission to explore the Alpha Centauri region using some ver...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes: In this episode Dr. Fred and I have the following stories: * The Rosetta Probe (remember it?) is still tracking Comet 67/P and has sent back a spectacular picture of the comet. We have details... *...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the show notes: In this episode we take a look at the huge success of the Blue Origin project and the disappearance of the Japanese Hitomi satellite project. What's happened to it? We report on what's known a...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes: In this episode Fred and I tackle the hot topic of the discovery of these really massive stars...the science behind them. And why are astronomers so interested in R136? Then we move to the dwarf plan...

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the Show Notes: First up...the Hubble Telescope proves its worth again, this time revealing for us the most distant Galaxy ever seen. We live in a amazing times... How's this for a name...JB Brickworks...that...

Hi everyone...Andrew & Dr Fred here...and here's the rundown of what's in this episode... One word...Mars. First up....methane on Mars...it's there but where's it coming from? We look at the possibilities. Next up...a Ma...

Hi Everyone...Andrew here....and here's what's in Ep.8 of Space Nuts... *Did you know we had a near miss with another asteroid recently? Near in Space terms anyway...Fred has all the details on 2013 TX68 *The recent solar eclipse...and do...

Hi everyone...Andrew here... In Ep.7 of Space Nuts, Dr. Fred and I cover the following stories: * The discovery of a strange asteroid which is now known as 'The Weird Asteroid' * The launch of Virgin Galactic's new space craft - ...

Hi everyone...Andrew here. In this episode of Space Nuts, Fred and I talk about the very large space rock that disintegrated off the coast of Brazil in early February, and was hardly reported on...yet it was one of the largest ever. Plus we take...

Hi everyone - Andrew here...welcome to the latest Space Nuts podcast, where Dr.Fred Watson and I discuss a fascinating discovery involving black holes, X-Rays and Radio Waves...plus we take a look at NASA's recently released space travel posters. ...

Hi everyone...Andrew here...welcome to the latest episode of Space Nuts...the podcast with Dr. Fred Watson from the Sydney Observatory. In this episode we pay tribute to the almost forgotten Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell who recently passed away. Plus we t...

Hi everyone...Andrew & Dr Fred with the latest Space Nuts podcast. In this program we take a look at the commercial operators leading the way in private space travel...and David Bowie...will he really get a constellation named after him? Subscribe ...