Looking Up

Gerhard Swart of the SKA talks to Kechil about South Africa's electric car.

Kathryn Rosie, Mechanical Engineer at SAAO describes the building of Hera, a radio telescope.

John Woodland describes Follow That Star, an upcoming musical performance.

Dr Danièl Groenwald, Astronomy Operations Manager at SALT, talks Kechil through the future of the Southern African Large Telescope.

The Southern African Large Telescope marks its 20yr anniversary. Dr Encarni Romero Colmanero describes the highlights of its discoveries.

What happens in-between the galaxies? Prof Todd Tripp explains.

A private remote observatory in South Africa: Prof Peter Dunsby talks about his astrotourism project.

Humans do strange things, like sending weird stuff into space.

3 comets are visible in our skies

Are we bobbing about on a sea of low frequency gravitational waves?

Looking Up 1,000! Prof Jessica Dempsey is the upcoming Director General of the Square Kilometer Array, one of the biggest science projects in the world. She talks to Kechil about her new role.

Masters student Kira Hanmer talks about mysterious Fast Radio Bursts.

The Mars Perseverance rover - has it found evidence of life?

Dr Sushant Dutta performs post-mortems of radio galaxies. He explains why to Kechil.

A terrible description of molecular hydrogen in the early universe. Plus a lunar eclipse on 7th September.

A few years ago scientists went hunting for stars made from anti-matter. What did they find?

Australia and South Africa are the locations of the massive Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. Karen Lee-Waddell, the director of the Australian SKA Regional Centre talks to Kechil about it.

Dr Anna Bosman, computer scientist at the University of Pretoria, talks to Kechil about using machine learning in astronomy

Do you want to listen to what the JUICE spacecraft heard when it flew by the Earth?

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.