The Cosmic Savannah The Cosmic Savannah
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Welcome to The Cosmic Savannah, a podcast giving you a behind-the-scenes peek into the world-class astronomy and astrophysics happening in Africa. Each episode, hosts Dr Jacinta Delhaize and Dr Daniel Cunnama chat to different guests and introduce you to the people, the technology, the science and the fascinating discoveries emerging from African astronomy. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to join us on a safari through the skies!
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Episode 70: Season 5 in Review
The band is back together! In this episode Jacinta, Tshia and Dan sit together in the cupboard once again to catch up and to reflect on Season 5.
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Mini Episode: Big Data, big IDIA
In this mini episode Jacinta has a quick interview with Professor Russ Taylor, one of the founders of IDIA ( The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy).
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Episode 69: Into the Matrix - Visualising Polar Ring Galaxies
In the second part of the Polar ring galaxy series, Jacinta and Tshia drop in on Dr Lucia Marchetti and Alex Sivitilli in the IDIA (The Inter-university Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy) Visualisation Laboratory at UCT (The University of Cape Town) where they learn how Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to model astronomical data in three dimensions.
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Episode 68: Untangling the Origins of Polar Ring Galaxies
This week Dr Nathan Deg returns to The Cosmic Savannah to discuss Polar-ring galaxies and how he models these incredible structures.
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Episode 67: A Stroll to the Edge of The Universe
In this “unplugged” episode, we hear from our own! New host Tshiamiso Makwela tells us about her research and we introduce you to our new podcast manager, Francois Campher.
Tshiamiso (Tshia) discusses her work in the field of Astronomy Education Research. She asks us "how big is big" and "how far is far"? Tshia explains why these concepts so difficult, yet so important, to comprehend.
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Episode 66: Meertime Mysteries - Pulsars and Prizes
In this new exciting episode Professor Matthew Bailes returns to discuss his recent work on Pulsars as well as his thoughts and feelings on winning the 2023 Shaw Prize for the discovery of Fast Radio Bursts.
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Customer Reviews
Blink if you’re under duress.
Love the podcast and the soothing voices about science but based on the inflections of the hosts speech patterns and inflections during the interview. It sounded like she either didn’t care or was just done with the interview. Details matter along with authenticity.
Really enjoyed episode 54 about women in astronomy. It was very encouraging.
Keep looking down.....
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Great to have a public source of information regarding astronomical science taking place in the southern hemisphere. Hope it is not too long (2025 or so?) before the SKA data reveals the hidden treasures of the immediate post-Big Bang universe. Thanks for this podcast!
Cosmic Savanna
This would be agreat podcast if it wasn’t recorded in an echo chamber. Please get some decent microphones and a studio with sound deadening.