Two stories for today: The Apollo 8 astronauts were the first to view the Moon’s hidden side with the unaided eye & Mars’s tiny moon Phobos has strange track-like groves crisscrossing it.
This week. We have discussion with @howellspace about her book and weekly news round up! Another gravitational wave. This time it’s either
the heaviest neutron star or the lightest black hole. #365DaysOfAstro
NASA team who plans to fly a drone like aircraft called Dragonfly around the surface of Saturn’s Moon Titan. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Welcome June brings us all the naked-eye planets at some points in the month, Venus’s introduction to the morning with the Moon, and mornings with four naked-eye planets visible.
The Solar System is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world to world with traditional chemical rockets. But one technique, developed back in the 1960s might provide a way to dramatically shorten our travel times: nuclear rockets.
How Artemis Moon missions will work? Also discussions on Commercial laws, China mission to Mars, disaster and success at SpaceX with Starship. All in today’s AwesomeAstroPod podcast at #365DaysOfAstro
Today, @WSHCrew will have discussion with Seth Shostak from SETI and weekly news update. Things to lookup in the night sky, comet, uninhabitable Martian brines, Europam and interstellar objects. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Discussion about Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars and astronomy news updates! What’s up this week? Check it out at #365DaysOfAstro
Three planets still hanging out in the early mornings, an early month unusual conjunction, and a meteor shower make this time of socially distancing ourselves a great time to get outside at night!
This week news: Venus at greatest elongation. Jupiter/Mars conjunction. Heat on mercury helps it make it ice. Discussion: Modeling coronal mass ejection