Trekzone • Talkin' Science
Tuesday, July 27 2021
•Matt
Welcome to another edition of Talkin’ Science, it’s the 29th week of 2021 and the first image of a Saturn-like planet – an exoplanet forming moons in a ring. Marsquakes...
Thursday, July 22 2021
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A 13 billion year old hypernova has been found by a team of Aussie astronomers at the Siding Springs observatory. The star had an iron-to-hydrogen ratio around 3,000 times lower...
Wednesday, July 21 2021
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In this the 28th week of 2021… Jeff Bezos and company make it to orbit and back again… Another rare insight into a supermassive black hole.. and astronomers find a...
Thursday, July 15 2021
•Matt
It was taking up to forty days for Australians to receive Earth Observing Data, now with the launch of Nova Sar 1 – that’s been dramatically cut down to around...
Tuesday, July 13 2021
•Matt
The headlines in this the twenty seventh week of 2021.. They Made It. Richard Branson and the crew on Unity 22 make it to sub orbital space, successfully completing an...
Saturday, July 10 2021
•Matt
Talkin’ Science Fest wraps up today with an exclusive interview with Southern Launch’s CEO Lloyd Damp. A few weeks ago they were given approval for three launches from their new...
Friday, July 9 2021
•Matt
We’re back up at The Dish for this edition of Talkin’ Science Fest… John Sarkissian has beamed in to give us the low down on everything Parkes – Murriyang –...
Thursday, July 8 2021
•Matt
We’ve been to Tidbinbilla in the past, but never inside the operations center – until now. Team Leader Richard Stephenson is our guide as we continue Talkin’ Science Fest.
Wednesday, July 7 2021
•Matt
Questacon has become the peak science education center in Australia, home to many fantastic exhibitions that can pack up into a truck and travel around the country. It’s seen over...
Tuesday, July 6 2021
•Matt
It’s the 26th week of 2021.. A long period comet hundreds of kilometers in diameter is heading to the inner solar system… not one… but two discoveries of the most...
Monday, July 5 2021
•Matt
We’re kicking off Talkin’ Science Fest – a week long celebration of Australian space and science achievements – with the first of two parts looking at The Dish, the Parkes...
Tuesday, June 29 2021
•Matt
It’s this the twenty fifth week of 2021 and we’re here to bring you the latest in science and space… including flipping exoplanet thinking … who can see Earth? Is...
Thursday, June 24 2021
•Matt
Professor Warwick Bowen led a team of researchers to discovering how to make quantum entangled light work for microscopic analysis. It’s the next step in microscopy, and it’s been discovered...
Tuesday, June 22 2021
•Matt
We’re focusing on China today…. so lets get the headlines in this…the twenty fourth week of 2021.. China launches 3 astronauts to spend three months in orbit.. NASA seeks more...
Thursday, June 17 2021
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Associate Professor Neeraj Sharma led a team of UNSW researchers who stumbled upon a “thermally stable material” made up of several elements, which could have wide ranging applications from spacecraft...
Tuesday, June 15 2021
•Matt
Here are the headlines in this the 23rd week of 2021.. It might be possible to reach another star system in a few decades after a major scientific breakthrough at...
Thursday, June 10 2021
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Professor Andrew Hopkins from Macquarie University beams in to explore the research he and a team of astronomers around the world have just released detailing previously though radio-quiet zones in...
Tuesday, June 8 2021
•Matt
On this Talkin’ Science – We’re off to Venus, NASA announces two missions to our other planetary neighbour… SpaceX and Axiom Space agree to fly 3 more private astronaut missions...
Thursday, June 3 2021
•Matt
We’re thrilled to be out of the studio for this Talkin’ Science episode. Hypersonix’s Michael Smart sits down with Matt at the University of Queensland to discuss their scramjet engine...
Wednesday, June 2 2021
•Matt
For just on a decade, Dr Sarah Pearce has been leading the Space Science division at the CSIRO – Australia’s science agency. Now she’s moving over to the Australian arm...
Tuesday, June 1 2021
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As the most detailed map of the universe is revealed, we’ve learnt that the Milky Way isn’t unusual and Curiosity has snapped some pretty cool cloud formations on Mars…
Wednesday, May 26 2021
•Matt
We’re taking you to the front row of astronomical observing – weather permitting – for 2021’s Total Lunar Eclipse. Thanks to the Scenic Rim Astronomy Association.
Tuesday, May 25 2021
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As Virgin Galactic celebrates it’s third flight, and first from New Mexico, Australia’s Air Force officially launches Space Division and Dr Brad and Matt preview this week’s Total Lunar Eclipse.
Thursday, May 20 2021
•Matt
It was their twentieth launch of the Electron rocket. Unfortunately for only the third time the entire payload and second stage was lost due to an anomaly. Jonathan McDowell, space...
Tuesday, May 18 2021
•Matt
As China’s lander touches down in the Utopia Planitia basin on Mars, a Russian film announces it’ll be racing to film on the Space Station against Tom Cruise’s project and...
Thursday, May 13 2021
•Matt
Earlier this week OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, successfully “pushed off” from Bennu to begin it’s thirty month journey home. Project Scientist Jason Dworkin beams back into Trekzone to...
Tuesday, May 11 2021
•Matt
We’re Talkin’ Science in week 18 of 2021… Dr Brad’s here with details of Blue Origin’s auction of a seat on their forthcoming New Shepard lunch – someone will get...
Sunday, May 9 2021
•Matt
We were live this morning as the booster stage of China’s latest Long March 5B to launch returned to Earth. Space archaeologist Professor Alice Gorman, spaceflight commentator Jonathan Gorman and...
Thursday, May 6 2021
•Matt
Nick Swainston is our guest on this edition of Talkin’ Science. With the help of some machine learning and a good pair of analytical eyes he discovered what’s been called...
Thursday, May 6 2021
•Matt
Following the successful launch and orbital insertion of the first stage of their Tiangong space station, China’s Long March 5B rocket booster is about to befall the same fiery end...
Tuesday, May 4 2021
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Remembering Michael. Apollo 11’s command module pilot Michael Collins passes away age 90. Extending Ingenuity. The Martian helicopter gets a mission extensions and new directive to aid it’s rover sibling...
Thursday, April 29 2021
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Recently new analysis of Pioneer data from Venus indicated the presence of pphosphine in the atmosphere. That’s usually a precursor to life, but as Dr McKemmish explains – there’s actually...
