Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists
The Oldest Light in the Universe
51 minutes Posted Nov 20, 2009 at 12:00 am.
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In this launch edition of Naked Astronomy, we report on how the Planck probe is seeing the oldest light in the Universe, the Rosetta mission flyby en-route to a distant comet, how LCROSS executed a deft lunar impact and what it revealed, how the LRO has imaged the Apollo landing sites and how Herschel promises to shed some light on the deep dark depths of space. Plus, your cosmological questions answered including, what's a quasar, why are the rings of Uranus vertical, do astronauts age more rapidly and could we brighten up the full moon with a giant lunar reflector...? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists