Do you ever feel dizzy when you think about the incomprehensible scale of space? We call that feeling Cosmic Vertigo. Welcome to a head-spinning conversation between two friends who study the sky for a living.
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Thursday 12 Oct 2017
Cosmic Vertigo producer Joel Werner has a new podcast!
Sum of All Parts tells extraordinary stories from the world of numbers.
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Melbourne, 1989. Two teenagers hack Australia's recently established internet connection, and infiltrate some of the world’s most secure computer networks.
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Friday 18 Aug 2017
Amanda and Alan are back (for a hot minute) to celebrate the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017!
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Thursday 25 May 2017
Missing Cosmic Vertigo? Well, check out this story about a telescope so powerful it listens to time..
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Friday 19 May 2017
Surprise! Bonus episode! Take a trip behind the scenes in the making of Cosmic Vertigo - LIVE! from the 2017 World Science Festival in Brisbane, Australia.
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Friday 5 May 2017
It’s amazing what you find when you try to see the dawn of time. This season of Cosmic Vertigo ends at the very beginning: the Big Bang.
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Friday 28 Apr 2017
In the unimaginably vast gaps between galaxies, something is accelerating the universe towards a lonely future. Alan and Amanda shake their heads at Dark Energy.
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Friday 21 Apr 2017
Dark Matter flies through solid walls like a ghost. Humans have buried super-sensitive crystals to try and detect it - and our Universe doesn’t make any sense without it.
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Friday 14 Apr 2017
Science fiction movies make it pretty clear that black holes are terrifying, all-consuming monsters. For astronomers there’s no cooler place to try and see.
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Friday 7 Apr 2017
It's a patchy, pale river in the sky - and a twirling spiral of 400 billion stars. It’s also headed for a dazzling intergalactic train wreck. Welcome to our Milky Way.
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Wednesday 5 Apr 2017
Alan and Amanda debate the number of civilisations that might be out there, get the maths wrong, and argue about whether our biggest barriers to coexistence would be linguistic or… dietary.
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Friday 31 Mar 2017
The science of exoplanets is stupendously fast-moving. The more we look for alien worlds, the more of them we find. Thousands and thousands of them, all with terrible names.
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Friday 24 Mar 2017
What makes a star a star? When will Betelgeuse explode? Amanda explores what "any day now" means in astronomy and Alan starts measuring mass in millions of marsupials.
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Friday 17 Mar 2017
Our Solar System started out as a chaotic Primordial Pancake. Now it hosts the eight planets we know and love, plus poor old Pluto, plus some other stuff. Like asteroids with their own moons.
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Thursday 16 Mar 2017
It’s drifting away from Earth at the same rate that your fingernails grow, but the Moon is still our closest neighbour - so close, that we’ve left quite a lot of litter on its surface…
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Wednesday 8 Mar 2017
Meet your hosts, astronomers Dr Amanda Bauer and Dr Alan Duffy.
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