Gravitational waves lead to ground-breaking, “impossible” discovery; Triple-star planetary rings

Gravitational waves lead to ground-breaking, “impossible” discovery; Triple-star planetary rings

Join us today as we examine major news coming out last week from institutions analyzing data from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors: the largest and farthest collision detected yet has led to the discovery of an “impossible” black hole. Plus a triple-star system has planetary rings and the camera that will be at the heart of the Vera Rubin Observatory takes its first images… of broccoli.

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Rocket Roundup for September 2, 2020

Rocket Roundup for September 2, 2020

Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches from the past week: SpaceX managed to pull off one of their two planned launches, and Rocket Lab finally got their fourteenth launch off the ground.

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