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  • Premiered: Apr 2009
  • Episodes: 460
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Season 2025
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Mike Retires from Astronomy
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Jan 07, 2025
Professor Mike Merrifield retires from research astronomy (and becomes an emeritus professor instead)
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Is String Theory Correct (and when will it be proven?)
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Jan 14, 2025
Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla answer a viewer question about the rights/wrongs of String Theory and its proof.
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An Asteroid named Bradyharan
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Feb 24, 2025
Newly-named 46925 Bradyharan.
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Asteroid Trajectories (extra)
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Mar 04, 2025
Trajectories of Asteroid 46925 Bradyharan... Courtesy of Alexander Bock.
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The Sound of Meteors
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Mar 31, 2025
Professor Mike Merrifield discusses meteor showers - and whether it's possible to hear meteors travel through the sky?
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Questions about Black Holes
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Apr 16, 2025
Professors Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla take on more questions from viewers about Black Holes.
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AI in Physics (and pineapple on pizza)
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May 23, 2025
Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla answer more viewer questions.
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NEWS: Dark Energy's Phantom Menace
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May 31, 2025
Tony and Ed discuss some recent findings from the world of Dark Energy.
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What's at [0,0] in space?
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Air date
Jul 01, 2025
Professor Meghan Gray discusses space co-ordinates and what sits at position 0,0 in the sky?
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Real Astronomer v Virtual Astronomer
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Jul 08, 2025
Professor Mike Merrifield creates his digital doppelganger - then Brady asks them both the same questions.
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NEWS: An Interstellar Object in our Solar System
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Jul 10, 2025
Mike Merrifield discusses the third known interstellar comet to pass through our solar system (3I/ATLAS).
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A Bubble of Absolute Nothing
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Aug 15, 2025
Tony Padilla on the physics of nothing...
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics (quantum tunnelling)
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Oct 13, 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".
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Spirals in Space
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Nov 04, 2025
Professor Meghan Gray discusses spirals in space.

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