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Rocket Roundup for August 5, 2020

Aug 5, 2020 | Crewed Space, Daily Space, Mars, Mars 2020, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, SpaceX

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript First up, on July 30 at 11:50 am UTC, the final Mars mission for this Martian launch window took off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s...

Free-flowing water on ancient Mars? Not so fast! Plus a black hole fails to prevent star formation and unequal neutron stars colliding may be noisy.

Aug 4, 2020 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Galaxies, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript In bringing you the news each day, we review often a dozen papers to pick out which stories are the most interesting to us that we hope will also be more interesting to you. Lots of factors go into picking...

Quantum effects observed in white dwarfs; machine learning helps find low-oxygen-abundance galaxy; signs of possible neutron star in SN 1987A; pair of recent meteorites found in Australia

Aug 3, 2020 | Daily Space, Galaxies, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Our Solar System, Quantum, Stars, Supernovae Remnants, White Dwarfs

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s science is the kind of reassuring “reality matches expectation” science that sometimes we need on a Monday. There are lots of never-observed theories in astronomy that we think must be true...

Quick plunge in sunlight caused Snowball Earths; remnants of globular cluster found; loop quantum cosmology breaks our brains

Jul 30, 2020 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Earth, Globular Cluster

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript It’s 2020, and it’s impossible to know what new terrible thing is going to make Murder Hornets and squirrels with the bubonic plague look normal. Showing us that things could indeed be worse is a new paper...

Rocket Roundup for July 29, 2020

Jul 29, 2020 | Daily Space, Mars, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Rovers, Space China

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript First up, at 4:41 AM UTC, a Long March 5 rocket blasted off from Wenchang Space Launch Center, sending the Tianwen-1 on its way to Mars. It’s expected to arrive next February. IMAGE CREDIT: CNSA The mission...

RAVE spectroscopic survey releases final data set; “central engine” of a solar flare characterized; conveyor belt of material seen feeding young star system from parent cloud

Jul 28, 2020 | Daily Space, Star Forming Region, Stars, The Sun

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript It’s 2020, and let’s face it, all of us are occasionally feeling a little lost. Is it Tuesday? Wednesday? Who knows. Let’s call it Blursday. Where is everyone? In a Zoom window that could be connected...