Podcaster: Ralph, Paul & Jenni
Organization: Awesome Astronomy
Title : Awesome Astronomy September 2019 Space Round Up
Link : www.awesomeastronomy.com
Description:
The Discussion: A look back at our 50th anniversary of the moon landings-themed dark sky star party, AstoCamp, and some wonderful suggestions as an alternative name for a ‘pair instability supernova’.
The News: Rounding up the astronomy news this month we have:
- Discovery of an exoplanet stripped of its atmosphere
- Understanding more about the features you can observe in Jupiter’s storms
- Gaia tells us more about the evolution of open clusters
- Chandra probes black hole clusters
- Planet 9 (groan…) could be a tiny black hole (it couldn’t)
- Amateur astronomer discovery of an interstellar comet
- Understanding the evolution of globular clusters
- NASA’s Insight lander suggests weird magnetic chirping at midnight on Mars
The main news story discussion: Water vapour in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in its habitable zone – leading to discussions on the importance of science journalism and the search for Earth 2.0
The Sky Guide: Covering the solar system and deep sky objects on offer to amateur astronomers in October:
Paul: A round up of the planets available to northern hemisphere observers in October and a tour of the comets currently in our skies. In the deep sky, we recommend a look at globular cluster Messier 2 and the NGC7009 planetary nebula in Aquarius.
Ralph: 3 lunar/planetary conjunctions and a glut of meteor showers. Then further afield, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.
Main Object: Messier 44, The Beehive Cluster
Q&A: Advice on upgrading telescopes for our good friend Jeremy Hanson in Wisconsin, USA.
Also this month, a close friend of Jen’s, Chris Duffield, got ill and died in China aged 27. The foreign office have told his family that the ballpark figure for getting him home will be between £15,000-£20,000. If you’d like to help repatriate the friend’s body, please do consider giving a donation to the gofundme account at tiny.cc/lpvgdz. Thank you.
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