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BREAKING NEWS – Arecibo Telescope Platform Collapses

Dec 3, 2020 | Asteroids, Cosmology, Daily Space, Dark Matter, Galaxies, Moon, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, Space China, Spacecraft, Stars, Supernovae, The Sun

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Due to breaking news, our lead story is about the collapse of the Arecibo telescope platform and its dish. Plus magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, sunspots, asteroids, dark matter, and a Kickstarter to preserve an...

Black Hole’s Dust Ring Casting Shadows

Nov 24, 2020 | Active Galaxies, Daily Space, Galaxies, Jupiter, Milky Way, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Once again, we find that dust is the culprit, this time causing a black hole to cast shadows out from the heart of its galaxy. Plus, a fossil galaxy in the Milky Way, newborn jets, and more. Transcript This is...

Luminous Kilonova Challenges Gamma-ray Burst Theories

Nov 15, 2020 | Astrobiology, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Earth, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, Physics, Rockets, Space History, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Venus, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript This is the Daily Space for today, Friday, November 13, 2020. I am your host, Beth Johnson, and I am here to put science in your brain. Unfortunately, Dr. Pamela is dealing with a host of grant deadlines, so...

Bumper Crop of Gravitational Wave Events Detected!

Nov 1, 2020 | AAS, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, JAXA, Jupiter, Neptune, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Titan, Uranus

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Yesterday, we talked about the accelerated timeline for OSIRIS-REx to stow the sample from Bennu. And we said we would update you all once we had new information. Of course, right after we went off the air...

NASA’s SOFIA telescope reports water found in sunlit crater on Moon

Oct 29, 2020 | AAS, Artemis, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Galaxies, KBOs, Moon, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Venus in Minecraft. CREDIT: Kieri-Aniis Last weekend we streamed for 36 straight hours during the CosmoQuest Hangout-a-thon 2020. Our goals were to build a scale model of the solar system in Minecraft...

Did we mention OSIRIS-REx sampled Bennu this week?

Oct 22, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Daily Space, Milky Way, OSIRIS-REx, Supermassive Black Holes, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript In case you have been hiding under a rock, the OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully booped the rubble pile asteroid Bennu. IMAGE: Artist’s impression showing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending...