The Meridian S02E07 - Ancient solar storms & observing reflections

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

In this last episode of the second season Nic and Rebecca get a visitor from the Department of Geology.  One does not always use telescopes to study the stars.  Chiara Paleari has been using ice cores to study our own star, the Sun, and has discovered evidence of an ancient solar particle storm.

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, astronomers,  instrumentation, data  reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets  (from exo-Earths to ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling, solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets,  stellar evolution, supernovae and many more space related topics.