Feature Guest: Jane Greaves
Remember that nursery rhyme, “Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky?” Well they were on to something, because it turns out diamonds - albeit nanodiamonds - are ubiquitous across the Milky Way galaxy. So-called diamond dust is even here in our own solar system. Today we’re joined at The Star Spot by Professor Jane Greaves, whose team made the discovery that unexpectedly solved a long standing astronomical mystery.
Current in Space
Simon explains a tantalizing find: 30 binary stars that have somehow been ejected from their home galaxies! Then Amelia and Tony report on a bizarre discovery: a star that's apparently the merger between two white dwarfs!
About Our Guest
Jane Greaves is Professor of Astronomer at Cardiff University in Wales. She is the recipient of the 2017 Fred Hoyle Medal from the Institute of Physics of London. In 2008 her team took the first direct image of a proto-brown dwarf candidate. Greaves uses textile art to communicate her passion for astrophysics with the public.
The Star Spot Episode 104: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate: The Dream, with Chuck Black
The Star Spot Episode 103: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate: The Ethics, with John Rummel
Episode 102: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate - Part 2: The Biology, with Olathe MacIntyre
Episode 101: The Great Terraforming Mars Debate - Part 1: The Science, with Paul Delaney
Episode 100: The Monster at the Centre of our Galaxy, with Feryal Özel
Episode 99 Pulsars and the Detection of Gravitational Waves, with Ingrid Stairs
Episode 98: What Our Beliefs About Aliens Say About Us!, With Brian Trent
Episode 97: Making Life in the Lab and Its Implications for Alien Hunting, with Lynn Rothschild
Episode 96: Did Universe's First Moments Set the Stage for Life?, with Fred Adams
Episode 95: Galaxy Clusters: The Largest Structures in the Universe, with Gil Holder
Episode 94: What Alien Intelligence Means for Humanity, with Don Lincoln
Episode 93: Will the Electric Sail Get Us to Deep Space? with Les Johnson
Episode 92: Inventing the Electric Solar Sail, with Pekka Janhunen
Episode 91: Monster Galaxies of the Early Universe, with Henry Joy McCracken
Episode 90: Discovering the Furthest Object in the Solar System, with Scott Sheppard
Episode 89: The Surprising Ubiquity of Ice in the Solar System and the Staggering Implications for Life, with David Paige
Episode 88: Two's Company: From Binary Stars to Binary Supermassive Black Holes, with Pawel Artymowicz
Episode 87: 147 Years of Astronomy Outreach, with Randy Attwood
Episode 86: When the Universe Began, with Wendy Freedman
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Crash Course Pods: The Universe
Universe Today Podcast
The Supermassive Podcast
This Week in Space (Audio)
The Astro Ben Podcast