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Looking Up

Looking Up

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Five minutes at the end of each week explores the big and the small questions in astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Hosted by Kechil Kirkham, no subject is too big or too small, and experts are regularly brought on board to illuminate and excite. Cape Town is the place to be for astronomy, with some of the largest telescopes in the world housed or being built not too far away. Looking Up takes advantage of the shoals of scientists and engineers working on the planet’s most advanced astronomy projects, who live and work right here in the Mother City. Kechil has recently acquired an MPhil in Space Studies at the University of Cape Town, and works in South Africa’s space industry on the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.

Recent Episodes

  • Looking Up - 10 April 24 - Fast Radio Bursts

    1 week ago

  • Looking Up - 03 April 24 - There will be a solar eclipse on 8 April

    2 weeks ago

  • Looking Up - 27 Mar 24 - So many satellites

    3 weeks ago

  • Looking Up - 13 Mar 24 - Leeuwenboschfontein Observatory

    1 month ago

  • Looking Up - 28 Feb 24 - Landing on the Moon is tricky

    2 months ago

  • Looking Up - 21 Feb 24 - Professor Matthew Bailes from Swinburne University of Technology

    2 months ago

  • Looking Up - 14 Feb 24 - Raoul Coetzee, creator of the Carina image

    2 months ago

  • Looking Up - 07 Feb 24 - Carina nebula

    2 months ago

  • Looking Up - 31 Jan 24 - JAXA's Moon mission

    3 months ago

  • Looking Up - 24 Jan 24 - Evolution of galaxies in clusters

    3 months ago