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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 — and not so sparkly — stuff in the sky.

Latest Episodes:

Cosmic Query | First contact Jul 03, 2018

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

018 | Quicker than quick Jun 27, 2018

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You'd think we'd notice thousands of explosions in the night sky. Shorter than a millisecond, these bursts were first recorded in 2007 and while scientists know they're there, we are still unsure of their origin.

017 | Longer than long Jun 26, 2018

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

Cosmic Query | clusters and milkshakes Jun 20, 2018

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A serving of Globular Clusters and Amanda's favourite milkshake (it's not chocolate).

016 | Cooler than Cool Jun 13, 2018

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Temperature levels across the Universe vary wildly. The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object, but back on Earth scientists are working towards achieving absolute zero. It doesn't get any cooler than that.

015 | Hotter than hot Jun 12, 2018

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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 Earth by scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider.

Cosmic Query | Lighting up the night Jun 05, 2018

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Could there be a time when we look up at the night sky and see more objects, planets and stars, than dark space? Join Alan and Amanda as they tackle another of your Cosmic Queries.

Cosmic Vertigo | Stargazing Special Jun 01, 2018

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

Join Alan as he explores the Siding Spring Observatory, where Amanda worked, and asks these professional stargazers (plus one red-haired comedian) what makes them feel Cosmic Vertigo.

Featuring Karlie Noon, Fred Watson, Becky Smethurst, Greg Quicke, Andrea Boyd, Amalia Sicardi, Tim Minchin and Kumi Taguchi.

014 | Emptier than empty May 30, 2018

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We’re told space is a vast empty vacuum. But how empty can it be, if we know it’s full of stars and black holes, nebulas and galaxies?

Alan and Amanda hop aboard a space elevator and rise through the Earth's atmospheric layers to explore our not-so-empty Universe.

013 | Denser than dense May 29, 2018

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Imagine the mass of the sun crushed into something the size of the earth – what you're picturing is a white dwarf. But things can get much more dense than that.

Amanda and Alan deliver a lesson in density with a side of salt and aioli (BYO chips).

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