JWST successfully took direct image of a gas giant exoplanet, and that means it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable.
Jul 9th: JWST Takes First Direct Image of an Exoplanet
Podcast Archive
Jul 8th: Getting Started in Amateur Astronomy
Got your eye on that $40 telescope at Walmart? Wait, hear us out first! Fraser and Pamela discuss strategies for getting into amateur astronomy
Jul 7th: Collision & Tiny Visitor
Astronomers working with the ATLAS project reported that the perviously normally appearing asteroid 6478 Gault now has a 250,000 mile long straight tail!
Jul 6th: Last Minute Astronomer July 2024
July’s fireworks include Saturn coming back around closer to being an evening planet, Mercury and Venus dancing low in the evenings, and some magic between the Moon and Spica.
Jul 5th: JWST Reveals Star Formation Details
Let’s take a fast-paced journey thru all that’s new in space and astronomy and look at how JWST reveal star formation in never-before-seen details.
Jul 4th: The Observer’s Calendar for July 2024
The Observer’s Calendar Saturn and Jupiter, Lunar X and Straight Wall, Minor Planets Ceres and Harmonia plus a bright comet on the horizon.
Jul 3rd: Starliner Marooned and playing with gyros!
This month the team discuss keeping the elderly Hubble alive with a single gyro, how Starliner is currently marooned in orbit, this month skyguide, & the life of Henrietta Swan-Leavitt
Jul 2nd: Where is the Center of the Universe?
What does it mean for the Universe to have a center? Could we ever travel to ours? What is a singularity?
Jul 1st: Looking Ahead
Today, on final episode before hiatus, @AstronomyCast talk about the future. Especially for the next couple of months until the new season return in September.
Jun 30th: One Thousand & Home Wrecker
Today’s Travelers in the Night will tell stories about the discovery of more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a single year and extremely remote chance of dangerous mountain sized space rock