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
What does it mean for the Universe to have a center? Could we ever travel to ours? What is a singularity?
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.
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
The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for more than 20 years but its end is coming. So how do you bring down a spacecraft? What will happen to the falling space debris?
This week… there was a far too much news problem, the last flight of Virgin Galactic’s Unity suborbital spacecraft, the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the ISS, a more successful launch test of SpaceX’s massive starship, the successful landing, loading, and liftoff of Chang’e 6 at the Moon, and… the beginning of the end for the HST as it shifted into single gyro operations.
Join us today for a discussion about distinguished career with Dr. Steve Maran as he shares with us about his experience from his almost 70 years working, and having fun, in astronomy.
Just how useful are humans in space? What is the death zone radius of a black hole merger? More about staying alive with @CheapAstro at #365DaysOfAstro
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seven planets in a system. More about this planet today with Deep Astronomy
Fraser & Pamela list their favorite books! Take notes!