May 2007 is when everything changes. Well, not quite everything. The Jodcast may have gone twice-monthly, but we remain in roughly the same cheesy format as before. This month we've gone international with Nick joining us from New Zealand and Tim from Chile. In our main interview, Nick chats with Carole Mundell about the Liverpool Telescope and how it is being used to observe hugely energetic gamma-ray bursts. Later we find out what Tim is doing with the New Technologies Telescope at La Silla in Chile. As usual we get the latest astronomy news from Megan and Ian tells us what we can see in the northern skies during May. Now, we must go and sort out our containment fields as they seem to be on the blink. It's probably something to do with phase variances in the deflector grid.
Show Links
- Recommended: NASA Sky Watch guide to ISS spotting
- Recommended: Heavens-Above
- Recommended: NASA/ESA SOHO spacecraft
- Recommended: Spaceweather.com
- The ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile
- The ESO 3.6m telescope at La Silla, Chile
- RSS: Large Hadron Collider podcast produced by Dr Brian Cox
The news - May 2007
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- NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble image of extreme star birth in the Carina Nebula
- Astronomers find first Earth-like planet in Habitable Zone using ESO 3.6m telescope.
- NASA's AIM Mission
- AIM Mission Overview
- NASA's GLAST mission
- MAGIC Telescope
- International Dark-Sky Association
- Utah?s Natural Bridges National Monument becomes first international dark sky park
Interview with Dr Carole Mundell (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- The Liverpool Telescope
- Paper: The Automatic Real-Time GRB Pipeline of the 2-m Liverpool Telescope (Guidorzi et al 2006)
- MP3: Our interview with Dr Paul O'Brien about observations of gamma ray bursts with the SWIFT satellite (April 2006).
The night sky for May 2007
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- Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for May 2007
Show Credits
| News: | Megan Argo |
| News in Chinese: | Dandan Xu |
| Notícias em Português - Maio 2007: | Valerio Ribeiro |
| اخبار به فارسى: | Mohammad Ebadinejad |
| Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Dr Carole Mundell |
| Night sky this month: | Ian Morison |
| Presenters: | David Ault, Stuart Lowe, Nick Rattenbury and Tim O'Brien |
| Editors: | Stuart Lowe, David Ault and Megan Argo |
| Cover Art: | Polarisation image of a gamma-ray burst taken just 203 seconds after the start of the explosion using RINGO on the Liverpool Telescope. CREDIT: Liverpool Telescope/Liverpool John Moores University |
| Website: | Stuart Lowe |
| Respectable Jodrell Bank Researcher: | Dr Anita Richards |
| Survey Winner: | John Cave (Merseyside, UK) |
| Intro/Outro script: | Steve Anderson, David Ault and Stuart Lowe |
| Special Guest Voice: | John Barrowman from the BBC's Torchwood |
| Intro voice: | Steve Anderson |
| Outro voices: | Ian Manfield, Eric Wilcock, Tom Muxlow, Megan Argo and David Ault |
| Cover art: | Polarisation image of a gamma-ray burst taken just 203 seconds after the start of the explosion using RINGO on the Liverpool Telescope. Credit: Liverpool Telescope/Liverpool John Moores University |
The News in Chinese - May 2007 [Duration 04:19]:
Notícias em Português - Maio 2007 [Duration 06:06]:
اخبار به فارسى [Duration 10:09]: