The Meridian S03E04 - Finding the way using starlight

Welcome to this Lund Observatory podcast where we continue to give you an insight into the life and work of our astronomers.

Astronomers, such as Nic and Rebecca, are not the only ones orienting themselves using the stars. Animals, big and small, also navigate by starlight.  In this last episode of the third season we invited Prof. Marie Dacke from the Department of Biology over to tell us about her research on the subject. In this third season we are also including some Cosmic Curiosities. These are some ideas, events or trivia from astronomic history that Ross, Victor and Lucian feel are worth bringing out of obscurity for one more look.

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

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