• s2e5: Exotelescope Expeditions

  • Jan 17 2025
  • Length: 57 mins
  • Podcast

s2e5: Exotelescope Expeditions

  • Summary

  • Exo-planets, sure. Exo-moons and -comets? Fine. But exo ... telescopes?! Emily is going out on a limb in this episode, expanding the definition of telescope to include things that measure stuff in space, and we're here for it! Which means we really do have a few telescopes out there beyond the Solar System, in the shape of Voyagers 1 and 2, with a few more waiting in the wings.

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    Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

    Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

    • The Voyager Missions: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

    • Where are the Voyager spacecraft now?

    • The Heliosphere, where the Solar System ends

    • The Voyager Golden Record

    • NASA relieved to get a call from Voyager 1

    • Syzygy Episode 42: Life, the Universe, and Everything

    • Syzygy Episode 79: Voyager Hears a Hum

    • Voyager 2 turns of last scientific instrument

    • Uranus mystery finally solved!

    • The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud

    • The Pioneer Program, esp. Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11

    • The Pioneer Plaque

    • The New Horizons mission and the Pluto Heart image

    • New Horizons visits Ultima Thule (Arrokoth)

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