Podcaster: Ralph, Paul & Jenni
Organization: Awesome Astronomy
Title : Awesome Astronomy May 2019 Astro Discussions
Link : www.awesomeastronomy.com
Description:
The Discussion: Recording from the Mars/Earth-analogue biome cottage at the AstroCamp starparty in the Welsh Brecon Beacons, we start off by discussing stargazing during a hurricane(!) and get ready for Jeni’s Pint of Science events this month.
The News: Rounding up the astronomy news this month we have:
- The rate of the universe’s expansion is 9% greater than we thought.
- Greater understanding about the lakes of methane on Saturn’s moon Titan.
- LIGO gets its jiggy on; giving us gravitational wave detections EVERY week!
- The value of occultations to modern astronomy
- A possible discovery of an exocomet!
- And a round up of some of the best astronomy April Fool’s gags from last month, including how winter would come on a Game of Thrones type world.
Main news story: 1) The first ever image of a black hole
The Sky Guide: Covering the solar system and deep sky objects on offer to amateur astronomers in May:
- An unwelcome dearth of solar system objects with Jupiter, Mars and Saturn low on the horizon, but dwarf planet Ceres is at opposition and we also have a few nice conjunctions to enjoy in May.
- Messier 5 and Palomar 5 globular clusters in Serpens and Messier 57, and the Ring Nebula, and the Double Double in Lyra.
Main Object: the much-overlooked Northern Star, Polaris.
Today’s sponsor: This episode of 365 days Of Astronomy is sponsored by Kyle Carmichael. This episode is dedicated to Cosmoquest crew. Thank you for all the hard work you do trying to put science in this old brain. Sometimes is isn’t easy but I will always be the better for it. Thank you again!
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