2023 Ffiseg a Seryddiaeth Ryngwladol – Rhaglen i Addysgwyr: Cyllid i addysgwr o Gymru

Posted on 9 March 2023 by Chris North

To read this page in English, please click here. I ddarllen y dudalen hon yn Saesneg, cliciwch yma os gwelwch yn dda. Mae’r cyfnod ymgeisio ar gyfer athro o Gymru ar gyfer rhaglen LIGO 2023 Rhyngwladol Ffiseg a Seryddiaeth bellach wedi dechrau. Dyddiad Cau: 31 Mawrth 2023 Gwahoddir addysgwyr yng Nghymru i wneud cais am
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2023 International Physics & Astronomy Educator Program – Welsh educator funding

Posted on 9 March 2023 by Chris North

I ddarllen y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg, cliciwch yma os gwelwch yn dda. To read this page in Welsh, please click here. Applications for a Welsh teacher to attend the 2023 LIGO International Physics and Astronomy (IPA) program are now open. Deadline: 31 March 2023 Educators based in Wales are invited to apply for funding
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Pythagorean Astronomy: Gravitational Field Trip – part 2

Posted on 21 September 2022 by Chris North

This is the second part of a gravitational field trip to the LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington State, in the US. Last month we talked about how the detectors work, and the scientists and engineers who operate them. This time, we take a longer-term look, not just into the future but also into the past,
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Pythagorean Astronomy: Gravitational Field Trip – part 1

Posted on 4 August 2022 by Chris North

This month, we go on a field trip to the LIGO Hanford Observatory, one of a number of detectors that are searching for gravitational waves. In part one of this trip, we hear from a number of people working at the detector. Dr Mike Landry, Head of the LIGO Hanford Observatory, explains how – and
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Pythagorean Astronomy: Black holes – too big and too small

Posted on 3 September 2020 by Chris North

If there’s anything that pricks up the ears in astronomy, it’s black holes. And this month we have not one, but two black hole stories. And, depending on how you count them, four black holes, though two of them no longer exist – if that sounds confusing, then don’t worry, it’ll become clear! Regular listeners
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Pythagorean Astronomy: interstellar comets, black holes and gravitational waves

Posted on 31 October 2019 by Chris North

October 2019 saw the first all-female spacewalk, and the discover of 20 new moons of Saturn. There were also more observations of interstellar comet Borisov, and evidence for the Milky Way’s black hole having sent out a violent flare several million years ago. Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss these latest stories. October also saw
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Pythagorean Astronomy: Biomarkers, near-misses and anniversaries

Posted on 30 May 2019 by Chris North

A roundup of the month’s news from around the Solar System – and beyond. You don’t think of mars rovers having drawers, but that’s exactly what has just been installed on the Rosalind Franklin Rover, part of ESA’s ExoMars mission. This is no ordinary drawer, of course, but the “Analytical Laboratory Drawer”, designed to test
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In conversation with a Nobel Prize Winner

Posted on 26 June 2018 by Chris North

This is a bonus edition of Pythagorean Astronomy – the regular June 2018 episode will be published on Thursday 28th June. In May 2018 we welcomed to Cardiff a Nobel Prize winner: Professor Barry Barish, who was one of the scientists who founded the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, As regular listeners will remember, LIGO made the
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