The Meridian

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers.

Astronomers, such as Nic and Rebecca, are not the only ones orienting themselves using the stars. Animals, big and small, also navigate by starlight.  In this last episode of the third season we invited Prof. Marie Dacke from the Department of Biology over to tell us about her research on the subject. In this third season we are also including some Cosmic Curiosities. These are some ideas, events or trivia from astronomic history that Ross, Victor and Lucian feel are worth bringing out of obscurity for one more look.

The Meridian is produced by Anna Arnadottir/Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

We would like to note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention things like astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope and instrument development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA and the ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (anything from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and a number of other space related topics.

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers.

Judith Korth joins the podcast this week and tell us about how she found her way into astronomy research, how she ended up here at Lund University and how she now studies distant worlds far beyond our own Solar System.

In this third season we are also including some Cosmic Curiosities. These are some ideas, events or trivia from astronomic history that Ross, Victor and Lucian feel are worth bringing out of obscurity for one more look.

The Meridian is produced by Anna Arnadottir/Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

We would like to note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention things like astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope and instrument development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA and the ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (anything from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and a number of other space related topics.

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers.

We are on a hunt for the invisible in this second episode of the third season of The Meridian. Ruth Pöttgen is a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics and she is studying fundamental particles and especially interested in finding that mysterious Dark Matter particle.

In this third season we are also including some Cosmic Curiosities. These are some ideas, events or trivia from astronomic history that Ross, Victor and Lucian feel are worth bringing out of obscurity for one more look.

The Meridian is produced by Anna Arnadottir/Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

We would like to note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention things like astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope and instrument development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA and the ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (anything from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and a number of other space related topics.

We are back, and we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers in this third season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast.

Joining Nic Borsato and Rebecca Forsberg in this first episode of the third season of The Meridian is none other than NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, who looks into how the human body adapts when in space. 

In this third season we are also including a few Cosmic Curiosities. These are some ideas, events or trivia from astronomic history that Ross Church, Victor Jónsson and Lucian Spitzner feel are worth bringing out of obscurity for one more look.

The Meridian is produced by Anna Arnadottir/Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

We would like to note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention things like astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope and instrument development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA and the ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (anything from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and a number of other space related topics.

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived,  giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!

In this last episode of the second season Nic and Rebecca get a visitor from the Department of Geology.  One does not always use telescopes to study the stars.  Chiara Paleari has been using ice cores to study our own star, the Sun, and has discovered evidence of an ancient solar particle storm.

In this second season of the Meridian we are also bringing you some field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a team of astronomers are trying to catch an ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet.

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information, and  pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD   studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA, ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data  reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets  (from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets,  stellar evolution, supernovae and many more space related topics.

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived,  giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!

Joining us on the Meridian today we have Colin Carlile, the former  director of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).  He came to Sweden to  (successfully) head up the Swedish bid to locate the European Spallation  Source here in Lund, and after formally retiring he decided to do a  master degree in astronomy here at Lund Observatory.

In this second season of the Meridian we are also bringing you some  field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a  team of Lund Observatory astronomers have been trying to catch an  ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet.   
In this instalment clouds are making it impossible to observe, so Nic  invites the support astronomer, Sara Vitali, to share her experiences of  how it is to work on the mountain-top.

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information, and  pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may  mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD   studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories,   telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science,   particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar   clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA, ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data  reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets  (from exo-Earths to  ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling,  solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets,  stellar evolution, supernovae  and many more space related topics.

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!

Michael Way works at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where he is modeling planetary atmospheres, with a special interest for Venus and its history.  He was visiting Lund Observatory to give a talk at the Källén Seminars for Young Astronomers, and we invited him onto the podcast to ask him if there is any chance that Venus has ever been habitable (spoiler: the answer is 'yes').

In this second season of the Meridian we are also bringing you some field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a team of astronomers are trying to catch an ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet.  

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD  studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories,  telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science,  particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar  clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA, ISS, astronauts, astronomers, instrumentation, data  reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (from exo-Earths to  ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modeling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae  and many more space related topics.

The  second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!

The European Southern Observatory, or ESO, is celebrating 60 years of scientific achievements in the southern hemisphere.  Sweden is one of the founding members of ESO, and several astronomers from Lund have been actively involved over the years.

In the fourth episode of the second season our podcast hosts, Nic Borsato and Rebecca Forsberg, invite professor emeritus Dainis Dravins to the microphone to tell us about both the Swedish and his own connection to the European Southern Observatory. 

In this second season of the Meridian we are also bringing you some field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a team of astronomers are trying to catch an ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet.

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information,  and  pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, astronomers, instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modeling, solar science and solar storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and many more space related topics.

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers! 

In this third episode of the second season Nic and Rebeca chat about equality in science before inviting Nikolai Piskunov to the microphone.  Nikolai is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University.  He was visiting Lund Observatory to give a talk here high-resolution transit spectroscopy and graciously agreed to make an appearance on the podcast.

This season we are also bringing you some field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a team of astronomers are trying to catch an ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet. As the team were waiting for night to fall on the mountain Nic encountered Belinda Nicholson, who is a postdoctoral research assistant working at the University of Oxfords Astrophysics Department, where she studies both exoplanets and stellar astrophysics.

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information, and  pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, astronomers, instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modeling, solar science and solar storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and many more space related topics.

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers! 

In the second episode of the second season Nic and Rebeca invite Diane Feuillet to the microphone.  Diane is a researcher here at Lund Observatory working on galactic archaeology using stellar abundances, ages and kinematics. 

This season we are also bringing you some field reporting from the  Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a team of astronomers are  trying to catch an ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet. The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  

For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories, telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science, particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar clusters, cosmology, astrometry, astronomers, instrumentation, data reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modeling, solar science and solar storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae and many more space related topics.

In this zeroth episode we introduce you to our brand new astronomy podcast: The Meridian.  Hosting the first season of The Meridian are Rebecca Forsberg and Nicolas Borsato - a couple of astronomy PhD students at Lund Observatory in Sweden, and our producer is Anna S. Arnadottir.

This first season contains a total of six episodes (not including this zeroth one) and we will be releasing the episodes on Fridays, starting on the 24. of September 2021. 

If you have any comments or questions about the show then feel free to reach out to us via our emails or via the @LundObservatory account on Twitter.