This month is indulgent and ranty! There is a big dive into the huge aurora display in May, talk of new exoplanets and old ones vanishing. The usual skyguide and this months history moment is all about X rays.
There are planets in orbit around stars outside our solar system – and even rogue planets. But finding them is very hard. They are small and dim. But ideally, we’d like to see them directly, in our telescopes. Is that possible?
We’re familiar with the weather on Earth and telescopes and missions are watching the weather on other planets in the Solar System. But for the first time in history, astronomers can now answer that question for exoplanets, located light-years away from us.
Today’s Travelers in the Night discuss about asteroid discoveries by Rose Matheny & a break up comet from a far
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the redshifts to tens of millions of galaxies to help unravel the mystery of dark energy and today’s podcast talk about its first result.
A supernova first observed in 2016 will be replayed in a few years because of the light’s journey through a galaxy cluster and how dark matter gravitationally warps space-time.
This month’s @ActualAstronomy observer calendar talk about Asteroids, Lunar X and Straight wall plus Alister’s Anomalous Moon For June.
Today’s Awesome Astronomy discuss with Chris Lintott about How amateur astronomers can contribute to real science, removing the boundaries between professional and amateur astronomers, and also Finding supernovae (violently exploding stars)
What is the “cold spot” on the cosmic microwave background? Why shouldn’t it exist? What are some possible explanations for it, and why are they unsatisfying? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
We’re polluting every corner of our own planet including take our trashy habits out into space with us. Lets learn more about the trash orbiting the planet to the radiation we’re leaking out into space.