Look Up!
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Join the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich as they discuss the night sky and recent news in the wide world of astronomy. The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the historic home of the Astronomer Royal, with the first building, Flamsteed House, built in 1675. Now the Observatory is a heritage site, museum and a centre for excellence in science learning.
Episodes
- Look Up! May 2026
What’s in the night sky in May? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Gideon cover this month’s must-see cosmic objects and events in this podcast. As usual, our hosts also discuss this month’s cosmic news story, with a special…
- Look Up! April 2026
What’s in the night sky in April? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Catherine cover this month’s must-see cosmic objects and events in this podcast. As usual, our hosts also discuss this month’s cosmic news stories; the 25th…
- Look Up! March 2026
What's in the night sky in March? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Gideon talk through some of this month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month's cosmic news stories, an update on NASA's A…
- In conversation with Dr Aileen Yingst
Dr Aileen Yingst is a planetary geologist working at the Planetary Science Institute. She came to visit us at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and shared some fascinating stories about Mars and the Moon. If you’re interested in the spacecra…
- Look Up! February 2026
What’s the night sky in February? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Gideon talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories, the expected lau…
- Look Up! January 2026
What’s the night sky in January? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories, the discovery of co…
- Look Up! December 2025
What’s the night sky in December? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover some ex…
- Look Up! November 2025
What’s the night sky in November? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover the som…
- Look Up! October 2025
What’s the night sky in October? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover the excit…
- Look Up! September 2025
What’s the night sky this September? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories, the discovery of…
- Look Up! August 2025
What’s the night sky this August? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories, the discoveries of…
- Look Up! July 2025
What’s the night sky this July? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover the origins of…
- Look Up! June 2025
What’s in the night sky this June? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Imo talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They talk about a…
- Look Up! May 2025
What’s in the night sky this May? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They talk about an…
- Look Up! April 2025
What’s the night sky this April? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover the 128 new mo…
- Look Up! March 2025
What’s in the night sky this March? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects and events in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They…
- Look Up! February 2025
What’s in the night sky this February? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover a…
- Look Up! January 2025
What’s in the night sky this January? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Catherine and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover Art…
- Look Up! December 2024
What’s in December’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Jess talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories. They cover a recent study…
- Look Up! November 2024
What's in November's night sky? Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Catherine as they discuss some of the cosmic objects you shouldn't miss in the sky this month. Also discussed are this month's cosmic news stories, both…
- Look Up! October 2024
What’s in October’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories, both human spaceflight…
- Look Up! September 2024
What’s in September’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories – the blue supermoon…
- Look Up! August 2024
What’s in August’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories, the first launch of the…
- Look Up! July 2024
What’s in July’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Imo and Catherine talk through some of this month’s must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month’s cosmic news stories – the nova event we’re exp…
- Look Up! June 2024
What’s in June's night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Imo talk through some of the month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. Also discussed are this month's Cosmic News – results from ESA's Euclid mission, and…
- Look Up! May 2024
What's in May’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Julienne talk through some of the month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. They also bring two news stories, the discovery biggest stellar mass black hole…
- Look Up! April 2024
What's in April’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Julienne talk through some of the month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. They also bring updates on all the recent human space exploration news, includ…
- Look Up! March 2024
This month we have a very special episode of the Look Up! podcast. We have the Royal Observatory's Dr. Ed Bloomer interviewing Professor Chris Lintott, astronomer and author. In his episode Chris tells us about his new book, ‘Our Accidenta…
- In Conversation - Interview 1
In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15 The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 wher…
- In Conversation - Interview 2
In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 whe…
- In Conversation - Interview 3
In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 whe…
- In Conversation - Interview 4
In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 whe…
- In Conversation - Interview 5
In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 whe…
- In Conversation - Interview 6
In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 whe…
- Look Up! Feb 2024
What's in February's night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Affelia talk through some of the month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. They also give updates on the Peregrine 1 and SLIM lunar missions and ask wh…
- January 2024 Look Up!
Affelia (with a different Jess as a special guest!) from the Royal Observatory Greenwich tell you what you can see in January's night sky. They also talk about two news stories from the world of astronomy - a fantastic new discovery from a…
- Look Up! December 2023
Astronomers Jess and Affelia from the Royal Observatory Greenwich tell you what you can see in December's night sky. They also talk about new aurora found at Uranus and Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot.
- Look Up! November 2023
In November's episode, Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky this month in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. We also bring you two new space news stories. First, Jess tells us abou…
- Look Up! October 2023
In October's episode, Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky this month in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. We also bring you two new space news stories. First, Jess tells us about…
- Look Up! September 2023
In September's episode, we highlight what to look for in the sky this month and discuss two cosmic news stories - how scientists almost lost Voyager 2 forever and huge tidal waves on a heartbreaker star. At the start of September, join the…
- Look Up! August 2023
In August's episode, we talk about how astronomers took the first ever image of the Milky Way, not with electromagnetic radiation, but with neutrinos, and CHAPEA, NASA's mission that involves locking away four crew members for a year to he…
- Look Up! July 2023
In July's episode, Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky this month in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. We also bring you two new space news stories. First, we talk about the disc…
- Look Up! June 2023
In June's episode, Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Jake take you through what to see in the night sky this month in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. We also bring you two new space news stories. First, we share a news story abo…
- Look Up! May 2023
In May's episode, Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Affelia take you through what to see in the night sky this month in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. We also bring you two new space news stories. First, we discuss what a recen…
- Look Up! April 2023
In April's episode we cover the night sky highlights for the month ahead and discuss the recent Aurora sightings in the UK, and the discovery of a particularly large exoplanet orbiting a particularly tiny star! At the start of April, you c…
- Look Up! March 2023
In March’s episode we cover the night sky highlights for the month ahead and discuss a wealth of news stories related to Jupiter, including some newly discovered moons! We also talk about an update on the International Space Station and it…
- Look Up! February 2023
In February's episode we cover the night sky highlights for the month ahead and then discuss black holes taking bites out of the same star over and over, and LauncherOne - the attempt to be the first orbital launch from the UK. At the star…
- Look Up! Jan 2023
In January's episode we cover the night sky highlights for the month ahead and talk about the latest (and last!) updates from the Insight mission on Mars, which sent its last ever signal shortly after this podcast was recorded. We also dis…
- Look Up! Dec 2022
Royal Observatory Astronomers Affelia and Jess take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December. They also cover some cosmic news! In this month's episode we discuss all things Moon-related with the recent launch…
- Look Up! Nov 2022
Royal Observatory Astronomers Affelia and Jess take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Affelia and Jess talk about a new theory on Uranus'…