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.
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.
Happy New Year and let’s check what we have in January Observer Calendar with @ActualAstronomy. With Mars at opposition and Venus is at greatest elongation in the evening sky
Happy New Year! Today we have @CheapAstro investigates our expanding universe, as well as some dead planets.
Did you know that almost all stars have a companion planet? It’s important to get to know the exoplanets and especially their atmospheres in a little more detail.
We take the Moon for granted, but its effect on the Earth is very important. But where did it come from? Did the Earth & Moon form together?
Today’s Travelers in the Night tell a story about Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2023 SZ1 and neighboring galaxy, M31, in Andromeda
Today’s Cosmic Savannah talk to Alexander Andersson about Bursts from Space project help scientists train AI to search for radio transients
Over tens of millions of years, Europa has been churned by impacts to the depth of 30 cm & the search for biosignatures must below that zone.
Today H’ad Astra Historia talk to Dr. Linda Spilker (JPL Fellow and Sr Research Scientist) about the Cassini mission to Saturn.