Today’s Traveling in the Sky tells story about three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system during a six hour period
Jan 12th: 3 Close Approaches & Naming Asteroids and Comets
Podcast Archive
Jan 11th: The Fastest Feeding Black Hole
Join us on today’s podcast at #365DaysOfAstro as NOIRLab discuss about the discovery of LID-568, a black hole that is feeding at 40 times the theoretical limit.
Jan 10th: End-Permian Extinction Lasted 10X Longer on Land Than in Water
The biggest mass extinction event on Earth occurred at the end of the Permian period. Now, scientists have found that the terrestrial portion of the event lasted nearly ten times as long as the ocean version.
Jan 9th: Listen to the Universe
NASA is famous for beautiful space images, but did you know you can listen to them? Lets go behind the scenes with the team that creates “sonifications.
Jan 8th: Christmas Panto!
It’s time for @AwesomeAstroPod Christmas Panto. This year we have Butch and Suni hijack the ISS. Also space news from 2024 and what to expect in 2025.
Jan 7th: What Are the Weirdest Hypothetical Particles?
Are dark photons as sinister as they sound? What did the curvaton do in the early Universe? And is everything really made of preons?
Jan 6th: The Sun, Spots & All
The Sun is more than just a free heat lamp for your garden, it’s an incredible, dynamic nuclear reaction complete with flares, coronal mass ejections, twisting magnetic fields and the solar wind.
Jan 5th: Discovery and Recovery & Loss and Gain
New observations linked with observations 10 years earlier about 2013 TG6’s orbital elements & Catalina Sky Survey search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet.
Jan 4th: Last Minute Astronomer January 2025
January 2025 is a PLANETARY month! Mars gets big, Mars gets occulted, Mars gets outshined by Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, then Venus and Saturn pass right by each other, and a brief but intense meteor shower shows up.
Jan 3rd: Science Here & Far
This week we take a loot at Dark Comets, Io’s gooey mantle, the colonization of a Ryugu sample, galaxies growing too fast too early, and more.