Look Up!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Greg takes us through the insights into planet formation provided by our most powerful submillimetre telescope, ALMA, and Patricia asks the question "Why was our first close-up image of the red planet's surface coloured in with pastels?". Plus this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Accompanying a round-up of this month's astronomical highlights, Patricia discusses crashes in space as we consider the history and the danger of asteroid impacts on our world and others, while Greg brings us the news of a habitable zone planet with water in its atmosphere - but is it actually suitable for life? Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this month's podcast, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune with a recap of the Voyager missions history and a look forward to its future, and we discuss a star almost devoid of iron, showing key signs of being a member of the missing link in the ancestry of stars, the elusive Population III stars. Plus, all of the month's viewing highlights for novice and experienced astronomers alike! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite news story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, healing serious injuries in space may become much easier soon as Patricia lets us know about 3D bioprinting, and things get theoretical with Greg as he talks about the concept of dark stars, some of the biggest and brightest stars in the Universe, powered by dark matter! Plus a run-down of what to see in the sky this month! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Greg and Patricia take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of June in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, Patricia answers the question "What does Charlie Brown have to do with the Guinness World Record for fastest speed of a human?" as we continue our build up to the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings! Meanwhile Greg looks to the future of protecting Earth from meteors, without Bruce Willis' help of course! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, a look back to the tragic story of Apollo 1 as Patricia explains Northrop Grumman's recent dedication of its Cygnus spacecraft to astronaut Roger Chaffee, while Greg looks at much longer journeys as he talks about hypervelocity stars, objects being ejected from our home galaxy out into the depths of space. Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this edition of Look Up!, we take a look at the legacy of the little rover that could, NASA's Opportunity rover, and a story of the one of the longest round trips a rock could make, as Big Bertha, a rock collected from the surface of the Moon, turns out to have possibly come from Earth after all! Also, see what the sky has to offer in this month's cosmic diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month on Look Up!, Greg discusses news of the Moon, with the recent Chang'e 4 mission and a look at meteoroid impacts on the Moon during the recent lunar eclipse, while Patricia tells us about exciting citizen science, the discovery of an unusual planet by members of the general public! Plus a round-up of the month's astronomical highlights in our cosmic diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Patricia and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of January in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Bringing in the New Year, we have two new stories from the world of Astronomy! Greg talks to us about the ongoing hunt for Dark Matter and how some of the faintest light in the sky may be the key to its understanding, while new Royal Observatory astronomer Patricia reveals the incredible insights of the New Horizons probe as it passed by Ultima Thule, making it the most distant object visited in our solar system! Plus we give you a roundup of the month's top observing highlights! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this festive season, as relatives gather for all kinds of celebrations, we look at two families in the cosmos! Dhara gives us an overview of the our current missions on Mars, our own robotic family: those ending, those still going and those that are only just beginning! Meanwhile, Greg tells us about astronomers' ongoing search for our own Sun's extended family, and how even finding our celestial siblings is a real challenge! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story! Update: A huge congratulations to the brilliant engineers and scientists at NASA who successfully landed InSight a few days after this recording!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month find out how lucky we are to be around a relatively quiet star as Greg discusses how flaring red dwarf stars might spell doom for planets around them and Dhara looks into the giants of the Universe, supermassive black holes; only this time, there's two of them. Violent mini stars, binary black holes and an update on the health of our aging fleet of satellites and probes: all on this month's Look Up! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story! Update: The day after recording this podcast, NASA's Kepler satellite was officially declared out of fuel, bringing an end to this fantastic and incredibly successful mission.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month it's an exoplanet double bill, with Dhara giving us an update on the habitability of Proxima Centauri b, a world around our nearest neighbouring star, and Greg tells us about the brand new planet-hunter TESS which has already found its first planet! Plus there's a bonus story about the possible discovery of a certain planet of sci-fi significance.... Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of September in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. In this episode, Greg tells us about the recent launch of the NASA Parker Solar Probe, soon to be the fastest object ever made by humans, and Dhara helps us celebrate the 15th birthday of the hugely successful Spitzer space telescope with a rundown of its greatest discoveries to date! Don't forget to join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote for your favourite story!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of August in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month, Dhara tells us about the discovery of 12 new moons of Jupiter bringing the total up to 79, while Greg talks about only the third time in history that a cosmic neutrino has been traced back to its source. Take a guess at what that might be...... As usual, join us on Twitter to vote for your favourite story @ROGAstronomers!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of July in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. This month we discuss a trio of stories from the rovers on Mars, including possible evidence of life, and talk about the discovery of a flare from a rare intermediate mass black hole!

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month, we discuss two recent news stories that caught our eye in the world of astronomy. This month, we talk about the formation of the ravioli-shaped moons of Saturn and the vast new catalogue of data from the Gaia mission to survey the Galaxy! Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of May in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astronomy news story to chat about. This month, we discuss the very unexpected finding of a galaxy which is thought to have no dark matter and the detection of a glitch in the regular beating pulse of a spinning neutron star also known as a pulsar. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of April in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astronomy news story to explore. This month, we discuss the numerous discoveries about Jupiter made by the aptly-named Juno space probe and we talk about the 'reanimation' of a long dead neutron star. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of March in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story. This month hear about the most recent developments on the first detected interstellar visitor to our solar system, the asteroid Oumuamua, and learn how astronomers think they may have found a vast population of exoplanets in a galaxy halfway across the Universe with a little help from Einstein's famous theories. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.

Royal Observatory Astronomers Dhara and Greg take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of February in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. Each month the astronomers pick their favourite astro’ news story – this month they chat about the first time details on a star's surface have been observed - until now, our Sun in the only star we have ever seen details on. The second story is all about a newly proposed definition for a planet which includes setting an upper limit to its mass. Vote for your favourite on Twitter: @ROGAstronomers #ROGSchools.