Cosmic Vertigo
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: The Dysons of the sky
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the final episode of Name That Space Sound, our mini-episode in which Karlie plays a mysterious space sound and Corey does his best to guess ...
The Box
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Karlie Noon is the first Indigenous student to obtain a Masters of Astronomy and Advanced Astrophysics, and is currently doing a PhD in Astronomy at ...
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: Sk8er Boi
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for Name That Space Sound! Each Friday we’re going to drop a mini-episode in which Karlie plays a mysterious space sound and Corey does...
Smash The Box!
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What inspires someone to become a scientist? How to fall -- and stay -- in love with STEMM (that’s Science Technology Engineering Maths Medicine) i...
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: A wheel that is running on metal
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for Name That Space Sound! Each Friday we’re going to drop a mini-episode in which Karlie plays a mysterious space sound and Corey does...
A microwavable mystery
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A mystery of astronomical proportions! A lonely night… A strange signal… But who -- or what! -- was the culprit? Presenters: Karlie Noon, Corey T...
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: The Barking Man
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for Name That Space Sound! Each Friday we’re going to drop a mini-episode in which Karlie plays a mysterious space sound and Corey does...
Seven Sisters
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the people of many cultures, including Indigenous Australians, the Pleiades constellation tells the story of the Seven Sisters. This ancient stor...
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: A 12-year-old playing Frozen on the recorder underwater
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for Name That Space Sound! Each Friday we’re going to drop a mini-episode in which Karlie plays a mysterious space sound and Corey does...
We do cool things here
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australia has a space agency! The Australian Space Agency (ASA) was founded in 2018 -- but what does it do? And how did it come to be? Karlie and Cor...
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: A pirate ship surrounded by balloons
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for Name That Space Sound! Each Friday we’re going to drop a mini-episode in which Karlie plays a mysterious space sound and Corey does...
Space Junk in the Space Trunk
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are about 130 million pieces of space junk in orbit around Earth -- and Dr Space Junk knows most of them on a first name basis! Associate Profe...
NAME THAT SPACE SOUND: Broken hearts
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for a brand new Cosmic Vertigo segment... Name That Space Sound! Each Friday we’re going to drop a mini-episode in which Karlie plays a...
Cosmic Dust Bunny
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2017 a mysterious, cigar-shaped rock roared into and out of our solar system in a flash! Christened ‘Oumuamua’ it was the first interstel...
Vacuum Energy & Frozen Stars
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show, cosmologist Professor Tamara Davis lights up the studio with a chat about all the dark stuff in the universe...GuestProfessor Tam...
Not everybody wants a telescope on top of their mountain…
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To do incredible things -- like take a picture of a black hole -- astronomers rely on telescopes. Telescopes are undeniably cool, and the science peo...
Black hole, or Curly Wurly?
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2019 a network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) took a picture of a black hole for the very first time.Presenters...
New season! New hosts!
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s favourite astronomy podcast is back! And this season, there’s new hosts in the hotseats -- Gomeroi astronomer Karlie Noon, and Deadly ...
The Moon Landing 010 - The journey home
21 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Their humanity-defining mission accomplished, it's almost time to come home.
The Moon Landing 009 - Last moments on the Moon
21 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
They've done their experiments, jumped for the camera and planted the flag. The walk is nearly over.
The Moon Landing 008 - Footsteps on the Moon
21 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Six hours of patience and preparation, and Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong are ready to open the hatch.
The Moon Landing 007 - Preparing for the Moonwalk
20 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After their dramatic landing, the astronauts' scheduled rest was never going to happen.
The Moon Landing 006 - The Eagle is landing
20 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is it. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong begin their descent to the lunar surface. But all does not go to plan...
The Moon Landing 005 - Dark side of the moon
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the Apollo 11 crew finalise their lunar orbit, they drift around to the far side of the moon - and out of radio contact...
The Moon Landing 004 - Enter the Lunar Module
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
So far on their journey to the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts haven't been inside the Lunar Module - that's about to change...
The Moon Landing 003 - Chicken stew in space
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As they continued their trip to the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to figure out how to live in space
The Moon Landing 002 - The view via space TV
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Exactly 50 years ago, the three Apollo 11 astronauts were on their way to the moon - and they shared their view with those watching closely back on E...
Cosmic Vertigo presents.. The Moon Landing 001 - Lift-off!
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
50 years after the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed humans on the moon, hear about the journey's crucial moments - and the near misses.
Cosmic Query | Total eclipse of the Sun
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We join two observers for a total eclipse of the sun.
019 | Faster than slow
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The International Space Station is travelling in low Earth orbit at a leisurely 7.66km per second (approx). Moving at that speed, the crew of the ISS...
Cosmic Query | First contact
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The search for alien life continues but at what point do we declare that we are alone in the Universe?
018 | Quicker than quick
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You'd think we'd notice thousands of explosions in the night sky. Shorter than a millisecond, these bursts were first recorded in 2007 and while scie...
017 | Longer than long
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you wait long enough, would another Universe spontaneously arise in front of you? Chances are it won’t happen in your lifetime… But it could.
Cosmic Query | clusters and milkshakes
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A serving of Globular Clusters and Amanda's favourite milkshake (it's not chocolate).
016 | Cooler than Cool
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Temperature levels across the Universe vary wildly. The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object, but back on Earth scientists are working toward...
015 | Hotter than hot
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The hottest thing in the Universe isn't the core of a planet, or the centre of an exploding star. It's created here on Earth by scientists working at...
Cosmic Query | Lighting up the night
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Could there be a time when we look up at the night sky and see more objects, planets and stars, than dark space? Join Alan and Amanda as they tackle ...
Cosmic Vertigo | Stargazing Special
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stargazing Live on ABC TV gathered astronomers and astrophysicists for three nights of discoveries and record-breaking observation.Join Alan as he ex...
014 | Emptier than empty
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re told space is a vast empty vacuum. But how empty can it be, if we know it’s full of stars and black holes, nebulas and galaxies?Alan and Am...
013 | Denser than dense
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine the mass of the sun crushed into something the size of the earth – what you're picturing is a white dwarf. But things can get much more den...
Cosmic Query | Robots on the moon?
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Season one, Amanda and Alan took an inventory of what we've left on the Moon: golf balls, a couple of flags, 96 bags of human waste ... But Ashton...
012 | Smaller than small
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Zooming right in from the decommissioned dwarf planet Pluto to the humble yet powerful atom helium, Amanda and Alan measure up the smallest things in...
011 | Bigger than big
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest things in the Universe don't necessarily last the longest.Massive swollen stars, hundreds of times bigger than our own sun, burn through ...
Cosmic Query | Red planet... Wet planet?
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cosmic Vertigo is back — and when they're not discussing the extremes of the Universe, Alan and Amanda are answering the big questions.Your questio...
GUESS WHO'S BACK?!
07 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cosmic Vertigo season 2 is COMING SOON! And we need your help. Want to share your own personal experience of Cosmic Vertigo? Or do you have a spacey ...
Cosmic Vertigo presents.. Sum of All Parts
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cosmic Vertigo producer Joel Werner has a new podcast! Sum of All Parts tells extraordinary stories from the world of numbers. The episode featured h...
Total Solar Eclipse [BONUS SHORT]
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda and Alan are back (for a hot minute) to celebrate the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017!
Cosmic Vertigo presents.. Off Track
24 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Missing Cosmic Vertigo? Well, check out this story about a telescope so powerful it listens to time..
Outer Space Takes [BONUS EPISODE]
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Surprise! Bonus episode! Take a trip behind the scenes in the making of Cosmic Vertigo - LIVE! from the 2017 World Science Festival in Brisbane, Aust...
010 | Baby pictures and bird poo
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s amazing what you find when you try to see the dawn of time. This season of Cosmic Vertigo ends at the very beginning: the Big Bang.
009 | Emptier than empty and getting even emptier
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the unimaginably vast gaps between galaxies, something is accelerating the universe towards a lonely future. Alan and Amanda shake their heads at ...
008 | The invisible wind
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dark Matter flies through solid walls like a ghost. Humans have buried super-sensitive crystals to try and detect it - and our Universe doesn’t mak...
007 | Black holes don't suck
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction movies make it pretty clear that black holes are terrifying, all-consuming monsters. For astronomers there’s no cooler place to try...
006 | A pretty exciting place
06 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's a patchy, pale river in the sky - and a twirling spiral of 400 billion stars. It’s also headed for a dazzling intergalactic train wreck. Welco...
005 | Where are all the aliens?
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Amanda debate the number of civilisations that might be out there, get the maths wrong, and argue about whether our biggest barriers to coex...
004 | Wobble and wink
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The science of exoplanets is stupendously fast-moving. The more we look for alien worlds, the more of them we find. Thousands and thousands of them, ...
003 | The bigger they are, the faster they burn
23 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a star a star? When will Betelgeuse explode? Amanda explores what "any day now" means in astronomy and Alan starts measuring mass in milli...
002 | Measly little specks of dust
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our Solar System started out as a chaotic Primordial Pancake. Now it hosts the eight planets we know and love, plus poor old Pluto, plus some other s...
001 | A giant lump of rock and iron
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s drifting away from Earth at the same rate that your fingernails grow, but the Moon is still our closest neighbour - so close, that we’ve lef...
000 | Welcome to the party! (That's us)
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Meet your hosts, astronomers Dr Amanda Bauer and Dr Alan Duffy.