Riding our luck dragon all the way, we bring you a brand new episode of The Cosmic Shed from deep in the Coronavirus Lockdown. It's The Neverending Story.
The Luck Dragon will take you almost all the way through your expedition
We're joined by Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Director of the 60 million dollar Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope which is operated by a consortium of 21 institutions spanning 6 countries and involving 270 individual researchers...which is nice but also exceedingly relevant as Melanie and her team have just discovered the biggest explosion in space since the Big Bang. The radio data which the scientists have been studying changes the way we think about Supermassive Black Holes.
The massive burst occured in the vicinity of the Ophicius Cluster
Andrew manages to spend most of the podcast pretending that this is the reason why he decided to do an episode of The Cosmic Shed on The Neverending Story. After all, Black Holes are pretty much as close to The Nothing as Nature gets...but later on in the episode we discover what might just have been his true reasoning...
Engywook would approve. We move in Scientific Circles.
In "the shed" are Andrew, Maddy, Steve, Ti and Tushna and Ben even drops in for a poem. It's been too long.
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Mission to Mars - Sensoria
Tron - The Cosmic Shed Live in the We The Curious Planetarium
HBO's Chernobyl
Destination Star Trek and ESA
An alien planet with water and Ad Astra
Life After the Navigator (and on the Moon)
Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
HBO's From The Earth to the Moon
Explorers - The Spirit of Apollo
Mika McKinnon - Science Adviser to Star Trek and SGU
Sheddy McShedFace - A trip to the Antarctic
Jim Al-Khalili - Sun Fall
Lost in a Good Game
Godzilla
May the Fourth be with Mark O'Connell
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Robert Llewellyn (Kryten)
Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse
Science & Religion:Exploring the Spectrum
The Meg
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