Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Hosted by Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson · The Naked Scientists
4.7from 96 ratings
- 232
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 96
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2009
- First episode
- 4M
- YouTube views
About Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
- Publisher
- The Naked Scientists
- Category
- science · science · science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Nov 2009
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 232 episodes have a transcript.
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New space telescope, and celebrating Wally Funk
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a couple of things. So one, it's that one is that Roman has a really, really wide field of view. Let's say, you know, Hubble could take let's say its field of view was was that the size of a stamp, for example, in the same snapshot. the Roman could get an entire sheet of paper. Wow. And this is why, you know, if you've heard things like or in part why if you've heard things that a survey, you know, that would take Roman one month would actually take a century to do with Hubble is in part because of its wide field of view, as well as its speed and everything. And so Roman is essentially a telescope that can look at things, see much more of it, and then find something interesting and then say either Hubble or JWST. […]
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- YouTube views
- 4,105,177
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 72 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 24 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 64
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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