Podcaster: Ralph & Paul
Title : Awesome Astronomy September Pt1 2018
Organization: Awesome Astronomy
Link : www.awesomeastronomy.com
Description: The Discussion: Jeni returns after getting the flu, Paul’s science shows were a wash out at Camp Bestival and Ralph gets a great email about a telescope library service.
The News: In the new revamped show format we have 3 minutes to round up the astronomy news stories you might have missed:
Jeni:
- New Gaia data shows us the distance and shape of familiar objects like never before
- India’s Chandrayaan-1 finds water ice in the moon’s north and south pole craters
- The Andromeda Galaxy’s dwarf companion was cannibalised by a galactic collision
Ralph:
- An ultra-hot 4,000ºC exoplanet
- An ultra compact dwarf galaxy with a huge supermassive black hole
- Astronomy favourite Albireo isn’t a binary star afterall
The big news story:
- New Horizons spacecraft confirms Voyager data on the Heliosphere
The Skyguide:
- Jeni runs through some top facts about the planet Neptune
- Paul tells you where to find it and what you can expect to see
- Ralph runs through the autumn equinox, the constellations Cygnus & Lyra and visiting comet 21P Giacobini Zinner
- Paul finished with this month’s moon phases
Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we take a look at astronomical time travel:
I’m still trying to get my head around if bigger telescopes looking at the same thing as my 6 inch reflector are seeing it at a different time or in just more detail. Take the Whirlpool Galaxy for example, can it be seen at different stages in its existence? From Peter Coates in the UK,
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