I continue my discussion with Dr Simon O’toole, on More Exo planet discoveries and the path ahead …

[podcast] http://www.nightskysecrets.com/Dr%20Simon%20O%27toole%20-%20Exoplanets%20Part%202-3.mp3 [/podcast]

Exo-planet discovery is reaching a new Peak, with the discovery of planets, even around such well known, bright and nearby stars as Fomalhaut.
I Spoke to Dr Simon O’Toole, The Deputy Gemini Scientist, from the Angelo Australian Observatory about this and other discoveries ….. (This is the first Live phone hookup to the show, so apologies for some of the background noise)
[podcast] http://www.nightskysecrets.com/Dr%20Simon%20O%27toole%20-%20Exoplanets%20Part%201.mp3 [/podcast]

Black holes were for years the stuff of science fiction Movies. Now with the scientific reality of their existence, science is pushing the boundaries of their study …. How can we “See” a black hole ?

[podcast] http://www.nightskysecrets.com/scienceguru/wp-content/uploads/Seeing%20Black%20holes.mp3 [/podcast]

In another space travel milestone, the Chinese have performed their first spacewalk. NASA had better get on with getting back to the moon, the Chinese might beat them to it !

[podcast] http://www.nightskysecrets.com/scienceguru/wp-content/uploads/Chinese%20First%20Space%20Walk.mp3 [/podcast]