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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...

Betelgeuse smaller and closer than previously thought… what?

Oct 19, 2020 | Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Mars, Observatories, Star Forming Region, Stars

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Welcome to Monday. This is going to be a Monday of announcements, so please bear with me for a moment. The news is coming in just a moment. IMAGE: This image shows Nightingale, the primary landing site...

Stars and Planets May Grow Up Together!

Oct 9, 2020 | Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Observatories, Planetary Nebulae, Planets, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s science is largely science that has resisted being understood: it’s the science of how star systems form and change the substance of the universe. At the most basic level, we struggle with questions...

Martian Dunes; Carina Nebula; Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct 7, 2020 | Daily Space, Gemini North, Mars, Nebulae, Star Forming Region, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, we do not have a transcript for today’s show. We apologize. If one becomes available in the future, we will edit this post. Stay tuned after the news for an...

Stellar eggs; Hubble uses lunar eclipse to detect Earth’s oxygen; Arecibo goes back to work after hurricane; Perseid meteor shower

Aug 10, 2020 | Astrobiology, Daily Space, Earth, ESA, Moon, Observatories, Star Forming Region

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s top story is one that someday, some science fiction writer needs to use as inspiration for the third act of an asteroid attack story. In early July, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System,...

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...