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Rocket Roundup for January 6, 2021: Year in Review

Jan 7, 2021 | Asteroids, Crewed Space, Curiosity, Daily Space, JAXA, Mars, OSIRIS-REx, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Rovers, Soyuz, Space China, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Uncategorized

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches and missions that happened last year, including test flights and first flights, mission launches and discoveries, and all...

Missing Black Hole Continues to Mystify Scientists

Dec 21, 2020 | Curiosity, Daily Space, Earth, ESA, Galaxies, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Stars, Supermassive Black Holes, Supernovae, White Dwarfs

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary A massive black hole should be in the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Observations with Chandra and Hubble haven’t located it. Plus, classifying supernovae with AI, neutron stars, the lithium composition problem,...

Centaur Seen Changing to Jupiter Family Comet for First Time

Nov 28, 2020 | Astrobiology, Comets, Curiosity, Daily Space, Earth, Mars, Our Solar System, Perseverance

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary In a surprise Planetary Pandemonium episode, we look at a comet that is caught in the process of moving from Centaur to Jupiter Family Comet and doing it on a human timescale. Also, an ancient Martian megaflood...

Mission update: Psyche; new tech; and a special Mars photo

Sep 1, 2020 | Asteroids, Curiosity, Daily Space, Mars, Moon, Spacecraft

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript No need to check your calendars, everyone. It really is Tuesday. Pamela and I have traded days this week for a couple of reasons: 1) almost all the press releases we got yesterday are embargoed until...

Asymmetric neutron binary star system discovered; Planet 9 could be a black hole (really); Mars Curiosity and InSight catchup; Comet NEOWISE

Jul 13, 2020 | Black Holes (Stellar), Comets, Cosmology, Curiosity, Daily Space, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Our Solar System

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript After taking a week away from streaming to catch up on other tasks, we’re back to bring you all the news. And since it’s summer, there is a lot but not as much as you might think. As we recognize that summer...