Spacetime Fika
Episodes
#5 Being an astronomer on Hawai'i with Geoff Bower
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Bower is a professional astronomer who works on top of the mountain Maunakea on Hawaiʻi. He is a project scientist at the Event Horizon Telesco...
#4 The craft of science writing with Marcia Bartusiak
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marcia Bartusiak is an accomplished popular science writer who has written several prize-winning books, as well as being Professor of the Practice Eme...
#3 Visualising the universe with Luis Calçada
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we make sense of the universe with the help of astronomical images? My guest for this episode is Luis Calçada, who is a data visualisation art...
#2 The colonial side of astronomy and what to do about it with Ann Thresher
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014 and 2015, protests against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, showed how the choice of where to build a teles...
#1 The future of gravitational wave astronomy with Salvatore Vitale
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 2017 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to the discovery by the LIGO observatory of a gravitational wave signal created by two colliding black hol...