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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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)

We know, we know — we did exoplanets last time. But that was the current state-of-play and a 2024 exoplanets wrapped update. In this episode, Emily looks to the future! She does a deep dive into the promise of the just wonderful JWST, as it prods exoplanets in ways they’ve never been prodded before.

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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 JWST mission

• The Transit method

• Exoplanet Phase Curves

• Exoplanet GJ1214b and the phase curve paper

• Transmission spectroscopy

• Exoplanet WASP 39b

• Direct imaging of exoplanets

• Exoplanet HIP65426b

• The JWST first release images

• The WASP 96-b “dodgy graph” (see Brundsen, 2025)

• Exoplanet WASP 43b’s day and night (and the Nature paper)

• The Trappist 1 system

It couldn't be a season of exo-stuff without taking a good hard look at the current state of exoplanets, the OG exo-thing. Emily sums up the state of exoplanet research in 2024 — her Exoplanets 2024 Wrapped, if you like — then lines up her top three exoplanets of the year, and considers what's coming up next in this exo-ploding field.

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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:

• Exoplanets found in 2024

• The Roche Limit

• Paper about Gliese 4256b and a nice article

• Comet Shoemaker Levy smashes into Jupiter!

• Brand-new IRAS 04125+2902: paper and article

• Retrograde hot Jupiter TIC 241249530 b: paper and article