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Through the Telescope - Mercury

Mercury

03/19/23 • 51 min

Through the Telescope

Rose and Elliott look at the closest planet to the Sun, and see what more there is to the planet than being small. Does size really matter? They also look at the missions that have gone to the planet, and why alchemists were mad about Mercury.


Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk


Music:

"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Rose and Elliott look at the closest planet to the Sun, and see what more there is to the planet than being small. Does size really matter? They also look at the missions that have gone to the planet, and why alchemists were mad about Mercury.


Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk


Music:

"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Get bonus content on Patreon

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How to Classify Stars

Rose and Elliott look at what makes stars different from each other and how to classify them, as well as the work of the “Harvard computers” that made stellar classification possible. They look at stellar spectroscopy and black-body radiation, the colour of stars and find out just why it took so long to make the Harvard system of classifying stars. After all, how hard can it be?


Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk


Links relating to this episode:

Annie Jump Cannon and stellar classification: https://princetonastronomy.com/2021/02/01/annie-jump-cannon-and-the-creation-of-stellar-classification/


Music:

"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Get bonus content on Patreon

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Rose and Elliott focus in on pulsars an neutron stars, what they are, what’s the difference and what makes pulsars the lighthouses of space. They also discuss the link between neutron stars, gravitational waves and Nobel prizes.


Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk


Music:

"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Get bonus content on Patreon

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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