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Looking Up

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This podcast has
150 episodes
Language
English
Explicit
No
Date created
2016/08/04
Latest episode
2025/12/10
Average duration
6 min.
Release period
7 days

Description

Explore the big and the small questions in astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Hosted by Kechil Kirkham, no subject is too big or too small, and experts are regularly brought on board to illuminate and excite. Cape Town is the place to be for astronomy, with some of the largest telescopes in the world housed or being built not too far away. Looking Up takes advantage of the shoals of scientists and engineers working on the planet’s most advanced astronomy projects, who live and work right here in the Mother City. Kechil has recently acquired an MPhil in Space Studies at the University of Cape Town, and works in South Africa’s space industry on the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.

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Looking Up - 10 Dec 25 - Gerhard Swart, SKA
2025/12/10
Gerhard Swart of the SKA talks to Kechil about South Africa's electric car.
Looking Up - 03 Dec 25 - Kathryn Rosie, Mechanical Engineer at SAAO
2025/12/03
Kathryn Rosie, Mechanical Engineer at SAAO describes the building of Hera, a radio telescope.
Looking Up - 26 Nov 25 - John Woodland describes Follow That Star
2025/11/26
John Woodland describes Follow That Star, an upcoming musical performance.
Looking Up - 19 Nov 25 - Dr Danièl Groenwald, Astronomy Operations Manager
2025/11/19
Dr Danièl Groenwald, Astronomy Operations Manager at SALT, talks Kechil through the future of the Southern African Large Telescope.
Looking Up - 12 Nov 25 - The Southern African Large Telescope
2025/11/12
The Southern African Large Telescope marks its 20yr anniversary. Dr Encarni Romero Colmanero describes the highlights of its discoveries.
Looking Up - 05 Nov 25 - Prof Todd Tripp
2025/11/05
What happens in-between the galaxies? Prof Todd Tripp explains.
Looking Up - 29 Oct 25 - Prof Peter Dunsby, astrotourism project.
2025/10/29
A private remote observatory in South Africa: Prof Peter Dunsby talks about his astrotourism project.
Looking Up - 22 Oct 25 - Humans do strange things
2025/10/22
Humans do strange things, like sending weird stuff into space.
Looking Up - 15 Oct 25 - 3 Comets
2025/10/15
3 comets are visible in our skies
Looking Up - 08 Oct 25 - Low frequency gravitational waves
2025/10/08
Are we bobbing about on a sea of low frequency gravitational waves?
Looking Up - 01 Oct 25 - Prof Jessica Dempsey, Director General Square Kilometer Array
2025/10/01
Looking Up 1,000! Prof Jessica Dempsey is the upcoming Director General of the Square Kilometer Array, one of the biggest science projects in the world. She talks to Kechil about her new role.
Looking Up - 24 Sept 25 - Fast Radio Bursts
2025/09/24
Masters student Kira Hanmer talks about mysterious Fast Radio Bursts.
Looking Up - 17 Sept 25 - The Mars Perseverance rover
2025/09/17
The Mars Perseverance rover - has it found evidence of life?
Looking Up - 10 Sept 25 - Dr Sushant Dutta performs post-mortems of radio galaxies
2025/09/10
Dr Sushant Dutta performs post-mortems of radio galaxies. He explains why to Kechil.
Looking Up - 03 Sept 25 - Molecular Hydrogen, Plus a lunar eclipse on 7th September.
2025/09/03
A terrible description of molecular hydrogen in the early universe. Plus a lunar eclipse on 7th September.

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