The Meridian S02E05 - New insights into Venus' past & an erupting volcano  

The second season of the Lund Observatory astronomy podcast has arrived, giving you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers!

Michael Way works at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where he is modeling planetary atmospheres, with a special interest for Venus and its history.  He was visiting Lund Observatory to give a talk at the Källén Seminars for Young Astronomers, and we invited him onto the podcast to ask him if there is any chance that Venus has ever been habitable (spoiler: the answer is 'yes').

In this second season of the Meridian we are also bringing you some field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a team of astronomers are trying to catch an ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet.  

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information, and pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD  studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories,  telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science,  particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar  clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA, ISS, astronauts, astronomers, instrumentation, data  reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets (from exo-Earths to  ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modeling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, stellar evolution, supernovae  and many more space related topics.