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Happy Birthday (Tomorrow) Hubble!

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating thirty years in orbit tomorrow. The Earth’s first orbiting telescope has shaped our understand and view of the universe and Dr Brad Tucker has the details on this Talkin’ Science Story of the Week..

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Happy Birthday Hubble : Talkin’ Science

It’s a special week for NASA, not only is Hubble fast approaching it’s thirtieth anniversary but they’ve set a date to launch astronauts from US soil for the first time in almost nine years. Plus, Dr Brad Tucker has details of a dancing star proving Einstein right (again) and a Russian anti-satellite weapon test.

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Talkin’ Trek: Picard’s First Season

As part of our ongoing mini series of podcasts reviewing Star Trek, Lee Sargent is back with Matt for another installment of Talkin’ Trek. On this show the pair dive into Picard’s first season…

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Moon Mining is About to be a Thing

The inevitable next step in our return to the moon has been achieved as US President Donald Trump signs an executive order allowing mining on the moon and other celestial bodies…

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Astronomical Home Learning

Dr Brad Tucker has teamed up with a bunch of his peers to live stream classes for kids of all ages and he’s here in our ‘Brad-a-thon’ week to give us the scoop.

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