Looking Up
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Looking Up is a society podcast hosted by Fine Music Radio. It has 150 episodes, with the latest published December 2025.
Explore 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.
society ·en ·150 episodes
Looking Up - 10 Dec 25 - Gerhard Swart, SKA
Looking Up - 03 Dec 25 - Kathryn Rosie, Mechanical Engineer at SAAO
Looking Up - 26 Nov 25 - John Woodland describes Follow That Star
Looking Up - 19 Nov 25 - Dr Danièl Groenwald, Astronomy Operations Manager
Looking Up - 12 Nov 25 - The Southern African Large Telescope
Looking Up - 05 Nov 25 - Prof Todd Tripp
Looking Up - 29 Oct 25 - Prof Peter Dunsby, astrotourism project.
Looking Up - 22 Oct 25 - Humans do strange things
Looking Up - 15 Oct 25 - 3 Comets
Looking Up - 08 Oct 25 - Low frequency gravitational waves
Looking Up - 01 Oct 25 - Prof Jessica Dempsey, Director General Square Kilometer Array
Looking Up - 24 Sept 25 - Fast Radio Bursts
Looking Up - 17 Sept 25 - The Mars Perseverance rover
Looking Up - 10 Sept 25 - Dr Sushant Dutta performs post-mortems of radio galaxies
Looking Up - 03 Sept 25 - Molecular Hydrogen, Plus a lunar eclipse on 7th September.
Looking Up - 27 Aug 25 - Anti-matter
Looking Up - 20 Aug 25 - Karen Lee-Waddell, the director of the Australian SKA
Looking Up - 13 Aug 25 - Dr Anna Bosman, computer scientist
Looking Up - 06 Aug 25 - JUICE spacecraft
Looking Up - 30 July 25 - Where is all the matter in the universe?
Looking Up - 23 July 25 - What about Uranus?
Looking Up - 16 July 25 - Machine learning in astronomy.
Looking Up - 09 July 25 - FMR's John Woodland
Looking Up - 02 July 25 - Dr Karen Lee-Waddell, Director of the AusSRC.
Looking Up - 25 June 25 - The amazing Vera C Rubin telescope has switched on!
Looking Up - 18 June 25 - The Place of the Stars
Looking Up - 11 June 25 - Professor Oleg Smirnov and Kechil talk more about PARROT pulsar
Looking Up - 04 June 25 - Distinguished Prof. Oleg Smirnov talks to Kechil
Looking Up - 28 May 25 - The Blue Danube in space!
Looking Up - 21 May 25 - What is an AGN? And What is an inactive black hole?
Looking Up - 14 May 25 - What's up now that winter's here?
Looking Up - 07 May 25 - Nic Erasmus Part 2
Looking Up - 30 Apr 25 - IAA Planetary Defence conference in Stellenbosch
Looking Up - 23 Apr 25 - What to do if asteroids get too close ?
Looking Up - 16 Apr 25 - Would you like to hear the sound of star clusters?
Looking Up - 09 Apr 25 - Kechil talks to Sam Wilson, author of The First Murder on Mars
Looking Up - 02 Apr 25 - Sam Wilson, author of The First Murder on Mars
Looking Up - 26 Mar 25 - Saturn's rings have disappeared!
Looking Up - 19 Mar 25 - What are the differences between the northern and southern hemispheres?
Looking Up - 12 Mar 25 - The Moon belongs to everyone, the best things in life are free
Looking Up - 05 Mar 25 - Planetary alignments and Blue Ghost
Looking Up - 26 Feb 25 - Dr Rosalind Skelton, Director of the South African Astronomical Observatory
Looking Up - 19 Feb 25 - How does an astronomer become an ambassador ?
Looking Up - 12 Feb 25 - Samples returned from the asteroid Bennu
Looking Up - 05 Feb 25 - Who would've thought that the Graeco-Roman Goddess of Hinges would be revived
Looking Up - 29 Jan 25 - How do you look at black holes?
Looking Up - 22 Jan 25 - Roundup of currently visible planets
Looking Up - 15 Jan 25 - New Year on Mars: what might it look like?
Looking Up - 08 Jan 25 - Kechil talks to Shamin Doman
Looking Up - 01 Jan 25 - What is time?
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