Awesome Astronomy

The Discussion: If you enjoy our attention to scripting, our professional quality audio and our stringent editing, then you’re bang out of luck! This show comes from our AstroCamp stargazing event in Wales and we’re making it up as we go along. This month we take you through the delights of dark sky stargazing among friends, Jeni becomes a paid scientist and we get the reactions of the gang as we reveal signed movie poster mock ups that we’re emailing to listeners. The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have: Gravity Spy – hunt for gravitational waves in this new citizen science project More details on NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission The first data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft wows us all The Interview: This month we welcome back writer, broadcaster and researcher Dr Chris North from Cardiff University to discuss Gravitational Waves: what this means for the future of professional astronomy and what we can expect from this new field of astronomy in the future. Q&A: Lis