Dr. Jen covers all the different types of galaxies! Find out what makes a galaxy, how they form, how they die and how we know what our galaxy looks like when we can’t leave it to look back on it.
Created by French astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th Century to help him find more comets, this catalogue is the most helpful list of the brightest and easiest to find galaxies, star clusters, nebulae and even starts with an SNR, a supernova remnant. This makes it the catalogue of objects for anyone with their first telescope or pair of binoculars.
Time for space exploration news with @AwesomeAstroPod. We have Perseids meteor shower, NASA going back to the Moon, news from ISS. Also what would we like to see happen to the ISS instead of being deorbited? More at #365DaysOfAstro
Today Awesome Astronomy will taking a look at the colour of stars and why stars appear the colours they do. Also how the mass of a star is related to its temperature, what happens to expanding dying stars and why we don’t see any green or purple stars.
August news round-up with @AwesomeAstroPod. Also august skyguide. This week we have Jupiter’s ring, triple star system with a violent past, fossil galaxy, & life on Mars.
How big is the Sun? How do we know? How does it compare to the planets in our solar system and other stars in the galaxy? What’s the fate of the Sun?
It’s time for space news explorations shows with @AwesomeAstroPod. Today discussions will include heatwave, JWST, Starship launch, Artemis 1, international cooperation in space, and more at #365DaysOfAstro
Time for news roundup with @awesomeastropod as well as July sky guide. This episode we have cultural names for Ursa Major, planetary alignment, Mars Storm, Gaia data release and more.
Time for June Space Exploration show with @AwesomeAstroPod. This month we have China’s Tiangong space station, Artemis 1, France joins Artemis Accord, moon suit development. Also how many people can you get on the ISS?
Time for your June sky guide and news round up with @AwesomeAstroPod. This month we have A companion star that survived a supernova, dark matter stripped away in galaxies, and of course the image of Sagittarius A*.