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Cosmic Vertigo

Do you ever feel dizzy when you think about the incomprehensible scale of space? We call that feeling Cosmic Vertigo. Welcome to a head-spinning conversation between two friends about the sparkly -- a... Read more

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Cosmic Vertigo | Stargazing Special

Cosmic Vertigo | Stargazing Special

Stargazing Live on ABC TV gathered astronomers and astrophysicists for three nights of discoveries and record-breaking o... Read more

1 Jun 2018

32mins

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003 | The bigger they are, the faster they burn

003 | The bigger they are, the faster they burn

What makes a star a star? When will Betelgeuse explode? Amanda explores what "any day now" means in astronomy and Alan s... Read more

23 Mar 2017

27mins

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002 | Measly little specks of dust

002 | Measly little specks of dust

Our Solar System started out as a chaotic Primordial Pancake. Now it hosts the eight planets we know and love, plus poor... Read more

16 Mar 2017

29mins

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008 | The invisible wind

008 | The invisible wind

Dark Matter flies through solid walls like a ghost. Humans have buried super-sensitive crystals to try and detect it - a... Read more

20 Apr 2017

27mins

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007 | Black holes don't suck

007 | Black holes don't suck

Science fiction movies make it pretty clear that black holes are terrifying, all-consuming monsters. For astronomers the... Read more

13 Apr 2017

30mins

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019 | Faster than slow

019 | Faster than slow

The International Space Station is travelling in low Earth orbit at a leisurely 7.66km per second (approx). Moving at th... Read more

10 Jul 2018

36mins

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Cosmic Query | Total eclipse of the Sun

Cosmic Query | Total eclipse of the Sun

We join two observers for a total eclipse of the sun.

17 Jul 2018

7mins

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Cosmic Query | First contact

Cosmic Query | First contact

The search for alien life continues but at what point do we declare that we are alone in the Universe?

3 Jul 2018

8mins

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018 | Quicker than quick

018 | Quicker than quick

You'd think we'd notice thousands of explosions in the night sky. Shorter than a millisecond, these bursts were first re... Read more

26 Jun 2018

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010 | Baby pictures and bird poo

010 | Baby pictures and bird poo

It’s amazing what you find when you try to see the dawn of time. This season of Cosmic Vertigo ends at the very beginnin... Read more

4 May 2017

20mins

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011 | Bigger than big

011 | Bigger than big

The biggest things in the Universe don't necessarily last the longest.Massive swollen stars, hundreds of times bigger th... Read more

15 May 2018

29mins

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015 | Hotter than hot

015 | Hotter than hot

The hottest thing in the Universe isn't the core of a planet, or the centre of an exploding star. It's created here on E... Read more

12 Jun 2018

36mins

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012 | Smaller than small

012 | Smaller than small

Zooming right in from the decommissioned dwarf planet Pluto to the humble yet powerful atom helium, Amanda and Alan meas... Read more

15 May 2018

26mins

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013 | Denser than dense

013 | Denser than dense

Imagine the mass of the sun crushed into something the size of the earth – what you're picturing is a white dwarf. But t... Read more

29 May 2018

29mins

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017 | Longer than long

017 | Longer than long

If you wait long enough, would another Universe spontaneously arise in front of you? Chances are it won’t happen in your... Read more

26 Jun 2018

30mins

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Cosmic Vertigo presents.. Sum of All Parts

Cosmic Vertigo presents.. Sum of All Parts

Cosmic Vertigo producer Joel Werner has a new podcast! Sum of All Parts tells extraordinary stories from the world of nu... Read more

12 Oct 2017

32mins

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Cosmic Vertigo presents.. Off Track

Cosmic Vertigo presents.. Off Track

Missing Cosmic Vertigo? Well, check out this story about a telescope so powerful it listens to time..

24 May 2017

29mins

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Outer Space Takes [BONUS EPISODE]

Outer Space Takes [BONUS EPISODE]

Surprise! Bonus episode! Take a trip behind the scenes in the making of Cosmic Vertigo - LIVE! from the 2017 World Scien... Read more

18 May 2017

45mins

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016 | Cooler than Cool

016 | Cooler than Cool

Temperature levels across the Universe vary wildly. The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object, but back on Earth ... Read more

12 Jun 2018

29mins

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