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

Our hosts, Nic Borsato and Rebecca Forsberg, are a couple of PhD students here at Lund Observatory and in this first episode of the second season they invite Ori Fox to the podcast to discuss the newly launched JWST.  Ori is an instrument scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) working on the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) which is one of four instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope.

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 (in English).  You can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple podcast, Google podcast and more.  You can also listen to all the episodes (and see pictures) via our website:

• www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian