Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage

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65 episodes

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English

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It's cosmology in a cup! - Cosmic Coffee Time is bite sized podcasts making sense of space, astronomy, life, and the universe, best enjoyed with a coffee. A down to earth look at what's up there, and it's just for you spacefans. Grab a coffee and see where in the universe we go this time. Follow on Twitter @CosmicCoffTime

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Episodes1 - 10 of 65 episodes

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	#66 Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an incredible place, but could anything live there? Canadian Astrobiologist Dr Catherine Neish led a study on Titan’s habitability. She joins us for a fascinating chat about what she found. Titan. The largest moon in the Saturnian system has been a candidate as a habitable wor... 23 minutes	May 01, 2024
	#65 Spaghettification? This really is a thing. It happens if you get too close to a black hole, but what is it? And how did it get that name? Space and cosmology throws up some strange effects sometimes, none stranger than spaghe... 6 minutes	Apr 01, 2024
	#64 The Odysseus Moon Lander. The first private moon lander has touched down, but is it still ok? Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines produced the first private mission t... 6 minutes	Mar 01, 2024
	#63 Space Ethics. How do we navigate the ethical challenges of our journey beyond Earth? So we pollute the upper atmosphere with rocket exhaust, is it worth the benefits of com... 5 minutes	Feb 01, 2024
	#62 The iconic Earthrise photograph. Is this the most influential picture from the Apollo era? Apollo 8 orbited the Moon in December 1968, seven months before the first moon landing.... 5 minutes	Jan 01, 2024
	#61 Will Saturn’s rings really disappear from view in 2025? What’s going on with that? In the news lately, you might have seen reports that the rings of Saturn are going to d... 5 minutes	Dec 01, 2023
	#60 Astrophotography. It's photography with a completely different technique. How do the pros do it, and what can I do with my smartphone? Photographing the night sky is a completely different technique to photographing almost... 6 minutes	Nov 01, 2023
	#59 India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land in the south polar region of the moon. Let's see why the this incredible spacecraft and rover could be instrumental for the future of human spaceflight. India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have landed ... 6 minutes	Oct 01, 2023
	#58 Resident space rock expert Greg Brennecka is back to preview the return to Earth of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a sample of asteroid Bennu. Cosmic Coffee Time’s resident space rock expert and NASA mission scientist Greg Brennec... 18 minutes	Sep 01, 2023
	#57 Space junk! Most of the human made objects orbiting Earth aren’t functional. Some of them are incredible objects that have outlasted their mission durations by years. How will these fascinating relics affect future spaceflight? Around 80% of the human made objects in orbit are mission left overs. Some of it is rea... 8 minutes	Aug 01, 2023

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Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage

Cosmic Coffee Time with Andrew Prestage

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Episodes1 - 10 of 65 episodes

#66 Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an incredible place, but could anything live there? Canadian Astrobiologist Dr Catherine Neish led a study on Titan’s habitability. She joins us for a fascinating chat about what she found.

#65 Spaghettification? This really is a thing. It happens if you get too close to a black hole, but what is it? And how did it get that name?

#64 The Odysseus Moon Lander. The first private moon lander has touched down, but is it still ok?

#63 Space Ethics. How do we navigate the ethical challenges of our journey beyond Earth?

#62 The iconic Earthrise photograph. Is this the most influential picture from the Apollo era?

#61 Will Saturn’s rings really disappear from view in 2025? What’s going on with that?

#60 Astrophotography. It's photography with a completely different technique. How do the pros do it, and what can I do with my smartphone?

#59 India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land in the south polar region of the moon. Let's see why the this incredible spacecraft and rover could be instrumental for the future of human spaceflight.

#58 Resident space rock expert Greg Brennecka is back to preview the return to Earth of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a sample of asteroid Bennu.

#57 Space junk! Most of the human made objects orbiting Earth aren’t functional. Some of them are incredible objects that have outlasted their mission durations by years. How will these fascinating relics affect future spaceflight?

#66 Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an incredible place, but could anything live there? Canadian Astrobiologist Dr Catherine Neish led a study on Titan’s habitability. She joins us for a fascinating chat about what she found.

#65 Spaghettification? This really is a thing. It happens if you get too close to a black hole, but what is it? And how did it get that name?

#64 The Odysseus Moon Lander. The first private moon lander has touched down, but is it still ok?

#63 Space Ethics. How do we navigate the ethical challenges of our journey beyond Earth?

#62 The iconic Earthrise photograph. Is this the most influential picture from the Apollo era?

#61 Will Saturn’s rings really disappear from view in 2025? What’s going on with that?

#60 Astrophotography. It's photography with a completely different technique. How do the pros do it, and what can I do with my smartphone?

#59 India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land in the south polar region of the moon. Let's see why the this incredible spacecraft and rover could be instrumental for the future of human spaceflight.

#58 Resident space rock expert Greg Brennecka is back to preview the return to Earth of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a sample of asteroid Bennu.

#57 Space junk! Most of the human made objects orbiting Earth aren’t functional. Some of them are incredible objects that have outlasted their mission durations by years. How will these fascinating relics affect future spaceflight?