David Southwood, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, tells me why NAM is so important to him. I hear about plans to double the size of the Liverpool Telescope, the sparkles in the Sun which have only recently come to light, and how gravitational lenses can produce magnified images of distant quasars.
In this episode
06:53 - Sparkles in the Sun
Cameras launched on brief flights aboard sounding rockets have seen sparkles in the Sun's atmosphere.
Sparkles in the Sun
with Robert Walsh, University of Central Lancashire
Transcript to follow.
14:57 - Magnifying quasars
Can gravitational lenses make distant quasars appear significantly brighter and easier to detect?
Magnifying quasars
with Andy Lawrence, University of Edinburgh
Transcript to follow.
22:37 - Liverpool Telescope to double in size
Planning is underway to build a successor to the world's largest fully robotic telescope.
Liverpool Telescope to double in size
with Chris Copperwheat, Liverpool John Moores University
Transcript to follow.
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