It's cosmology in a cup! - Cosmic Coffee Time is bite sized podcasts making sense of space, astronomy, life, and the universe, best enjoyed with a coffee. A down to earth look at what's up there, and it's just for you spacefans. Grab a coffee and see where in the universe we go this time. Follow on Twitter @CosmicCoffTime
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#56 The June solstice, it defines the Arctic circle, the Tropic of Cancer and the Antarctic circle. It has the longest daylight hours in the northern hemisphere, shortest in the southern. But why do those things happen on one day every year?
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2023-06-30
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#55 The spectacular Aurora Borealis and its southern partner Aurora Australis. The astronomical light show is such a cool thing to see, but its science was a mystery until the 20th century.
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2023-05-31
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#54 NASA’s VERITAS mission to Venus. There’s some good news, there’s some bad news and there’s one incredible discovery hidden for thirty years.
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2023-04-30
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#53 The Hayabusa2 Asteroid Ryugu sample return mission. Space rock expert Greg Brennecka joins us for an incredible up-close look at real life asteroid material.
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2023-03-31
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#52 Hundreds of years before GPS there was celestial navigation. Let's see how astronomy and some basic equipment kept old time mariners on course.
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2023-02-28
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#51 NASA's astronaut class of 1978. We have a compelling chat with Meredith Bagby about this ground breaking group of space shuttle astronauts, and her fascinating book The New Guys
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2023-02-06
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#50 We all love GPS, but what space science makes it work?
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2022-12-31
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#49 The new Mars meteorite impact. NASA Insight has detected a new meteorite impact on Mars! Meteorite expert Greg Brennecka returns to talk about this breathtaking new discovery.
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2022-11-30
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#48 Caroline Herschel - So much more than just the sister of the guy who discovered Uranus
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2022-10-31
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#47 Have you ever heard of moonquakes? Let's take a look at how different they are from earthquakes.
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2022-09-30
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#46 Meteorite expert Greg Brennecka returns to the podcast to talk about the Nadir crater. An exciting new discovery that could be a 66 million year old meteorite impact.
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2022-08-31
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#45 NASA's Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. A drone is going to fly in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Incredible!
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2022-07-31
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#44 About that black hole at the centre of our galaxy... Now we've got a picture! Sagittarius A*
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2022-06-30
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#43 Let's take a look at Sunspots. What are those darker spots on the surface of the sun?
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2022-05-31
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#42 Pulsars. What are these incredible objects and what makes them pulse?
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2022-04-30
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#41 Galileo. His observations in 1610 changed a lot of what we knew about astronomy. Let's see what he found.
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2022-03-31
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#40 Binary stars. Would you believe that most of the stars we see aren't just single stars? Incredible I know!
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2022-02-28
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#39 Meteorites! We meet with noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka to talk meteorites, the origins of life on Earth, and his new book 'Impact'
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2022-01-31
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#38 The amazing Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. Let's take a look at the Mars 2020 project
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2021-12-31
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#37 What's in that unexpected gap between Mars and Jupiter? Let's take a look at the asteroid belt - a fascinating element of our solar system
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2021-11-30
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