134 Astronauts and Streetlamps

Chris and Rob discuss streetlights, astrology and Ceres: the
dwarf planet. There are organic molecules at the centre of a
galaxy, and a black hole that’s the wrong size.


Links:


Ceres is getting odd:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/26/ceres_shiny_spot_is_actually_twins.html

Astrology on the NHS:
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/25/uk-tory-mp-says-astrology-woul.html

New jobs at Zooniverse:
http://daily.zooniverse.org/2015/02/23/two-new-jobs-at-the-zooniverse/

Organic molecules around a black hole:
http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/e/news/pressrelease/20150226alma_revealed_surprisingly_mild_environment_around_a_supermassive_black_hole_1.html

Astronauts and street lamps
http://io9.com/how-to-hack-your-street-lamps-like-an-astronaut-1686876944



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Audio content Copyright 2011-2015 Chris Lintott and Robert
Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space.
Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).