A new system has been found that consists of six stars in three binary pairs, which are producing a bevy of eclipses with each other. They were found in TESS data with the help of machine learning
Feb 3rd: Awesome Astronomy February 2021 News
What’s up in February night sky? And check out the news roundup for this month. There’s a hot Jupiter with transparent atmosphere, 3D Map of invisible brown dwarf and on top of that, ESA CHEOPS discovered exoplanets with rare rhythm around their parent star
Jan 8th: Dr. Alan Stern: What’s On The Horizon For New Horizons
What’s On The Horizon For New Horizons? And we have news about the first detection of a built-in wobble on another planet, the distance scale to the Universe, and Japan planning to launch a wooden satellite.
Jan 6th: Awesome Astronomy January 2021 News Round Up
That intriguing radio signal found coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri. And more stories with @AWesomeAstroPod at #365DaysOfAstro
Dec 31st: Exoplanet Could Be Similar To Theoretical Planet 9
HD 106906 b is an exoplanet 336 light years away, 11 times the size of Jupiter, and possibly an analog of our own not-yet-discovered Planet 9.
Nov 30th: Life as We Know It: Habitable Exoplanets & Extremophiles
As scientists continue to explore the Earth, they’re discovering life, surviving and even thriving in extreme environments. What hints can this give us about what we might find as we search for live on other worlds.
Oct 10th: A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion
White dwarfs are the final state of stars like our Sun at the end of their lives. Recently a Jupiter sized planet was discovered orbiting very close to a white dwarf. In this podcast, learn about this planet, its discovery and how it was studied using NASA and NOIRLab facilities.
Oct 9th: Dr. David Warmflash and Mixed Reality Surgical Systems
Today’s topic: space medicine research with David Warmflash and news update! We have exoplanet Beta Pictoris c, the earth as the only one habitable planet, and first spaceport for Germany. #365DaysOfAstro with @WSHCrew
Sep 13th: Extremely Old World Could Harbor Life & Up Close And Personal With A Comet
Aug 27th: When Stars Wobble
New observations from the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab and other telescopes have found a planet that doesn’t quite match how astronomers expected planets to form.