We're on the road in Preston at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting. Our first special show describes what NAM is and what happened on the first day. In our second show we catch up with Chris Wareing who announced results about the wakes left by dying sun-like stars as they pass through the interstellar medium. On the third day David Boyce (University of Leicester) and Paul Steele (University of Leicester) join us to chat about the various sessions that took place. We find out about the organisation of the conference from Dr Stewart Eyres, chat to Dr Monica Grady and find out about the International Heliophysical Year from Dr Lucie Green. On day four Neil Phillips (University of Edinburgh) joins us in our attempt to coherently link interviews about the dangers of solar ejections to astronauts, the possibility of making force-fields to protect them, the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, the Herschel Mission, the fiftieth anniversary of the Sky At Night and exoplanets. The last day of the NAM sees us talking to Dr Chris Davis about the STEREO mission, Dr Helen Walker about Mars Express and Prof Mike Bode about RS Ophiuchi.
Show Links
Interview with Dr Chris Wareing (University of Manchester)
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- NAM Press Release: Dying Sun-like stars leave whirlpools in their wake
- Images and an animation to illustrate the research
Interview with Dr Lucie Green (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
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- International Heliophysical Year official site
- Sun-Earth Plan
- Lucie's website
Interview with Dr Monica Grady (Open University)
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- Martian meteorite ALH84001 (NSCORT)
Interview with Prof Mike Lockwood (RAL and Southampton University)
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- Abstract for Mike's talk at NAM
Interview with Dr Ruth Bamford (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
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- RAS press release - Shields for the Starship Enterprise: A reality?
- Description of a Tokamak
- Description of a Tokamak
Interview with Prof Matt Griffin (Cardiff University)
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- Abstracts for the Future Facilities session at NAM
Interview with Prof Martin Barstow (University of Leicester)
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- Abstracts for the Future Facilities session at NAM
- NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
- Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)
- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)
- Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)
- Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
- World Space Observatory/UV
- Soft X-ray Diffuse Background
Interview with Dr Chris Lintott (Oxford University)
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- BBC's Sky At Night
- The Sky At Night online archive
Interview with Dr Peter Wheatley (University of Warwick)
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- NAM session on exoplanets
- SuperWASP - Wide Angle Search for Planets
- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- NASA's Kepler Mission
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
- The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Interview with Dr Chris Davis (Rutherford Appleton Laboratories)
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- NASA's STEREO mission
- UK STEREO site
Interview with Dr Helen Walker (Rutherford Appleton Laboratories)
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- ESA's Mars Express
Interview with Prof Mike Bode (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- RS Ophiuchi outburst in 2006
- Papers on RS Ophiuchi (2006)
Show Credits
Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Dr Chris Wareing |
Interview: | Stuart Lowe talked to Dr Lucie Green |
Interview: | David Boyce talked to Dr Monica Grady |
Interview: | David Boyce talked to Prof Mike Lockwood |
Interview: | Stuart Lowe talked to Dr Ruth Bamford |
Interview: | David Boyce talked to Prof Matt Griffin |
Interview: | David Boyce talked to Prof Martin Barstow |
Interview: | Stuart Lowe talked to Dr Chris Lintott |
Interview: | David Boyce talked to Dr Peter Wheatley |
Interview: | Stuart Lowe talked to Dr Chris Davis |
Interview: | Stuart Lowe talked to Dr Helen Walker |
Interview: | Stuart Lowe talked to Prof Mike Bode |
Presenters: | Nick Rattenbury, Stuart Lowe, Megan Argo, David Boyce, Paul Steele and Neil Phillips |
Editors: | Stuart Lowe and Megan Argo |
Cover Art: | Planetary Nebula Sh 2-188; N Wright, University College London |
Website: | Stuart Lowe |
Cover art: | Planetary Nebula Sh 2-188 Credit: N Wright, University College London |