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Podcast #38: Dr Pieter Kotzé at ScopeX 2018
Podcast #38: Dr Pieter Kotzé at ScopeX 2018
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Welcome to episode 38 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. This episode features the last part of our physics feature on the lifecycle of a star from dust cloud to super nova, and the 3rd of the ScopeX 2018 public lectures.
Physics
1:30
Over the past few episodes we've been trying to understand how a random cloud of dust and gas can turn into a supernova. In this segment, we finally get to witness our supernova, but that's just brought up more questions. What exactly makes a neutron star so weird?? Don't supernovae also make black holes, and what even is a black hole, exactly?
Dr Pieter Kotzé
14:17
Pieter presented a talk on space weather titled "Living in the shadow of a variable star, The Sun". He works as a physicist for the South African National Space Agency, stationed at the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory.
Links
ScopeX
SANSA
Dr Pieter Kotzé
Physics
1:30
Over the past few episodes we've been trying to understand how a random cloud of dust and gas can turn into a supernova. In this segment, we finally get to witness our supernova, but that's just brought up more questions. What exactly makes a neutron star so weird?? Don't supernovae also make black holes, and what even is a black hole, exactly?
Dr Pieter Kotzé
14:17
Pieter presented a talk on space weather titled "Living in the shadow of a variable star, The Sun". He works as a physicist for the South African National Space Agency, stationed at the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory.
Links
ScopeX
SANSA
Dr Pieter Kotzé
Released:
Nov 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (20)
Podcast #36: José da Silva at ScopeX 2018: Welcome to Episode 36 of the Urban Astronomer podcast, and the first in our ScopeX 2018 series. In this episode we feature the first of the public lectures I recorded at ScopeX. It is by José da Silva, and he speaks about exoplanets, by The Urban Astronomer Podcast