In this second interview I discuss the History, current projects and the future for NZ’s #1 research telescope “the Moa” on Mt John. I am speaking with Alan Gilmore, the resident superintendent at the Mt John Observatory. Alan is a prolific co-discoverer of Asteroids with his partner Pamela Kilmartin, having over 40 asteroids to his name, just to mention one of his many achievements.

We also cover progress in the search for dark matter through to the latest successful discovery of Exo-planets by the Gravity Micro Lensing surveys, being conducted by the Moa team ….

Records in science come along quite often, but this record breaking gamma ray burst leaves all the others in the dust ……

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 ?

The latest research has show just how abundant Dark Matter is in our Solar System. 16,000 x more so that in the surrounding intergalactic medium. So what does this mean for our Solar System ? ……..

The CERN Large Hadron Collider is due to come online soon and is set to deliver critical insights into the forces at work in the first moments of the Universe. The are some popular misconceptions about the risks associated with these experiments, we will have a look at those risks and just how likely they are …….

The latest findings from NASA shows that the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is much bigger than we can see in the visual Spectrum.  This could lead to a better understanding of the origin of our Universe …… Listen to find out More !