Escapepodcast

02/12/2012

If any one feels like taking a break from studying and grabbing a drink, meet us on mercury
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/media/PressConf20121129.html

Papers published in Science Express provide support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury's permanently shadowed polar craters contain water ice.

29/11/2012

As mentioned in the pilot episode. This video can teach you more about the Universe than we could in a million podcasts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

Monty Python's Meaning of Life http://www.amazon.com/Monty-Python-Trinity-Pythons-Meaning/dp/B001E12ZAM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1226692215&sr=1-1

27/11/2012

These are perhaps the most amazing orbital photography ever. Astronaut’s Incredible Photos of “Star Trails"

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/06/astronaut_don_pettit_s_photos_of_earth_from_the_international_space_station_.html

When he is not flying around Earth at about 18,000 miles per hour, out on space-walks or performing weird zero-gravity experiments, astronaut Don Pettit takes some of the most astounding space photos to date. The images, which look straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, as has been noted around...

27/11/2012

EPISODE II NOW AVAILABLE

Previous generations of explorers traversed uncharted territory on our own planet, discovering lands and continents. But now, for the first time, we have the technology to discover entirely new planets.

Dan and Stephen were fortunate enough to get a passenger seat view of this extra-worldly exploration with Dr. Jaymie Matthews, one of Canada's top Astrophysicists, is an important figure in the burgeoning field of Exoplanet research. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, mission scientist of Canada's only Space Telescope "MOST", and modern-day Conquistador.

http://escapepodcast.podbean.com/2012/11/27/escape-podcast-2-exoplanets/

Dr. Jaymie Matthews, one of Canada's top Astrophysicists, is an important figure in the burgeoning field of Exoplanet research. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and mission scientist of Canada's only Space Telescope "MOST". Dan and Stephen were fortunate enough to get a passenger seat view of...

27/11/2012

Follow all of Dan and Steve's adventures through the abyss of space by searching escapepodcast in the iTunes store

Here's a picture taken by one of our hosts. Anyone can do astronomy!

27/11/2012

Check out EscapePodCast's Pilot episode with Masters of Astrophysics student Raminder Samra about "Globular Clusters"

http://escapepodcast.podbean.com/2012/10/26/escape-podcast-1-globular-clusters/

EscapePod's pilot episode! In it we talk with Raminder Samra, Masters student of Astrophysics at UBC, about "Globular Clusters"