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Are we alone, and if so can we have all the planets?
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Asking questions and not always answering them.
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Things that orbit the Sun and clear their orbits.
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Mars - why Earth is such a great place to live.
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This is our near future, unless it doesn't happen.
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Fifty episodes that raised a hundred questions.
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Just in case unbridled enthusiasm isn't enough.
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The most fiddly components of any space mission.
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One fully-articulated step closer to the robot apocalypse.
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These are the voyages of a low-budget enterprise.
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This week, we deal with some highly-charged and potentially-polarising issues.
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If you were wondering what this podcast is really about...
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In space, no one can hear you scream, but you can still wave your arms about.
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It's not all about the USA, even though a lot of it is.
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Sometimes people just want to ask astronomy questions. And we're OK with that.
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To boldly spend less than anyone has spent before.
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A cheap astronomy podcast about stars and galaxies... seriously.
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This week, navigating and surfing, by the stars.
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Cheap Astronomy turns five and visits the land of opportunity.
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This week we take some time to find some space.
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OK you're going to mine, but you've got to eat too.
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If we want to do this, it's time to start thinking about how.
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This week we work through more great questions.
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Fun facts about the little things that make astronomy work.
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Plodding that little bit further up the mountain.
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We have an ice cube's chance in a supernova, but what the heck.
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This week we try dunking a hypertoroid in a gravity well of dark matter.
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In this episode we dig deep to find our inner alien.
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Being cheap means that we aren't always on the money.
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Being cheap means that we aren't always on the money.
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Cheap Astronomy gets another go on this fabulous podcast and plugs shamelessly.
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Science on the ISS, Episode 1. The real space balls.
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The evolution of humanity's favorite telescope.
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Fortunately, there's more to humanity than just economic mismanagement and bad TV shows.
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There are some relatively good questions this week.
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It only happens every 8 years and, no hang on, I mean every 105 years and six months. No, wait, every 121 years and six months. What?!!
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Cheap Astronomy stumbles upon another Australian science podcast.
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From the weakly interactive to the frighteningly explosive.
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Protons are hadrons, electrons are leptons and photons are bosons. OK?
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This geometric discussion assumes its final form.
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Finally, someone (who's not Smart Enough To Know Better) interviews us.
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You can't get to where you're going before you leave - not even if you try sometime.
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Cheap Astronomy catches up with the Ordinary Guy from the Brains Matter podcast to talk about saving the world and stuff.
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A new Russian interplanetary mission with grunt - that's Fobos-Grunt.
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A bit of reminiscing as the last Space Shuttle mission is underway.
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The whole idea of the term 'dark' is that we don't know what we are talking about. So how about we stop sounding like we do?
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A quick summary of what can be observed - even though we can only see a tiny bit of it.
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If you are convinced that seeing is believing, astronomy may not be the science for you.
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Could there be even more dark stuff? Well, probably not.
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Here's an endeavour to reassure us that we are actually living in the 21st century.
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If it wasn't for ice skaters pulling their arms in, astronomers would really struggle with this.
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A podcast where other people write the script. Yay.
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You don't always need a telescope to find an astronomical conundrum.
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Can you really make time stand still? Nnnnnnn....
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If we ever meet anything we can shake hands with, it will probably be carbon-based.
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Kind of, sort of, but not really faster than light.
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Is all this indeterminant killing of cats really necessary?
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Lots of galaxies have SMBHs at their centres. Coincidence?
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You can say any old todge about what's inside a black hole - and no-one can prove you wrong. OK then.
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A kind of decadal survey - done on the cheap of course.
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Pretty much anything can be made to work on paper. The trick is to get it off paper.
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Unless you have a very long extension lead, these are your current options.
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More proof that everything is linked to astronomy. This time - death rays and geometry.
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A story about a couple of crows and a supernova impostor.
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Few things in astronomical research are ever set in stone.
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Funnily enough, this is a story about astronomy without a telescope.
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OG from Brains Matter engages in a cheap discourse on animal astronomy.
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Trial run of an emergency back up podcast - just think of it as a stitch in time.
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A brief retrospective with help from Nancy Atkinson of Universe Today.
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Now that we've found exoplanets, let's think about exo-weather.
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Most people get Lagrange point 1 - the others, not so much.
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Cheap Astronomy is skeptical that this podcast will be a hit.
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What a cheap astronomer does after 24 hours flying economy class.
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The shapes that things can become are surprisingly limited.
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The things you see when you look at a star up close.
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Einstein admitted he got it wrong - but, here in the 21st century, have we really got it right?
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A plausible alternative to the elephant in the room of cosmology.
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Cheap Astronomy tries to shine a light on dark matter - but that doesn't seem to achieve much.
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Tour the galaxy at 220 kilometres a second from your own backyard.
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We don't call it electromagnetic radiation for nothing.
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It's not rocket science - oh hang on, actually it is.
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A very brief out-take from next week's podcast - made me laugh.
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My telescope might be cheap, but it can look back in time.
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OK, so your spade keeps melting - but it's interesting.
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Astronomy podcast, special guest star. It makes sense.
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Things that keep rocket scientists up at night.
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Sometimes it's good just to take stock, see where we are and put things in context.
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The science fiction movie 2010, released in 1984, had people flying to Jupiter... for the second time. Oh well, at least we'll have nearly finished the space station by then.
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Planning a mission to Mars is a piece of cake on paper. Actually doing it - well, not so much.
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More proof that pretty much everything in life is linked to astronomy.
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When our plucky robot ambassadors, out there exploring the solar system and beyond, need to phone home - who's there to listen?
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You know how you can just go 'Ah Houston...' and there's a team of people with PhDs ready to solve all your problems? This is how that works.
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Cheap Astronomy checks out the latest contender for the title of world's cheapest telescope.
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We're only just starting to learn what's out there near the back fence.
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Often banal and factually greivous kitsch message.
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What goes around comes around, or is it what comes... Anyway this is all about coming and going - around.
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Really hoping some of these things might fly one day.
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A peek under the hood of Project Constellation finds a mix of do-able and aspirational components.
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Cheap Astronomy rants about space advocacy and tries to tell a joke to an alien.
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What sounds like a great title for a Doctor Who episode ends up being a podcast about sundials.
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Is there really such a thing as just another space shuttle mission?
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If there was a planet somewhere in the universe able to support life, what would it be like? Hmmm...
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A long overdue podcast about the world's most famous cheap astronomer.
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Reunited, the three intrepid explorers turn their ship for home.
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Everything is going just great... that is, until Neil and Buzz attempt the landing.
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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing - Neil, Buzz and Mike get strapped in for a re-run of their historic mission.
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Understanding special relativity is as easy as taking a train ride.
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Cheap Astronomy puts a baseball cap on backwards and goes sailing on the seas of space-time.
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We review recent theories about dinosaur extinction and finds more smoking guns than a Dallas motorcade.
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Just who the heck is James Webb and why are we naming an infra-red space telescope after him?
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If that gadget on your dashboard doesn't instantly get you thinking about astronomy, you're not thinking hard enough.
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Cheap Astronomy says 'yes we can' to all those skeptics who doubt the universe's one second old baby photo can ever be observed directly.
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Cheap Astronomy visits La-La land and goes all starry eyed.
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Further courses are served in the ultimate free lunch.
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Cheap Astronomy explores this puzzling conundrum without ever once using the word sidereal.
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Our future in space means adjusting to daily life in microgravity - so... just how hard is that?
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If you don't find this interesting, it's about time you asked yourself why you keep downloading astronomy podcasts.
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A hot, bright thing in the sky that is responsible for a population of beings who invented the words hot and bright.
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So... hands up who wants to share a five year mission to seek out new life and new civilisations with a bunch of guys. OK then.
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The line between astronomy and science fiction sometimes blurs.
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It's not just about about being on time, being in space is also important.
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Some of what is still remembered about Indigenous Australian observations of the night sky.
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Some clever folk have been working hard to ensure the full richness of human culture is represented by more than just I Love Lucy.
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Geology might seem like a completely different science to astronomy, but not really.
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A podcast for when you are lying in the gutter, looking up at the stars.
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The only way is up, baby, but managing that is no easy matter.
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A brief history of early spaceflight - including both primate and dog-based endeavours.
