#22 - April 2014

This month we talk National Astronomy Week and have an audio
report from the outreach we conducted.


In the news, we have a discussion with Jeni Millard and Sebastian
Khan from Cardiff University about the discovery of gravitational
waves; we discuss the auroral display that lit up Europe and the
ensuing scandals caused by the Daily Mail; we have a possible way
of detecting dark matter and a theory that dark matter may have
killed the dinosaurs; a new minor planet emerges beyond the orbit
of Pluto and a yet another minor planet is found to have its own
ring system.


In the 5 Minute Concept, Paul poetically explains the history and
science behind that false dawn that plagued observers for
centuries, the zodiacal light.


We interview Dr Chris North, Astrophysicist at Cardiff University
and presenter of the BBC's Sky at Night programme, about the
detection of gravitational waves and what it means for wider
cosmology.


And in Q&A, we answer listeners' questions on Transient Lunar
Phenomena and what happens on the boundary of a black hole.