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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...

First Brown Dwarf Discovered Using Radio Observations

Nov 11, 2020 | Asteroids, Astrobiology, Exoplanets, Fast Radio Bursts, Jupiter, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, OSIRIS-REx, Planets

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript This is the Daily Space for today, Tuesday, November 10, 2020. I am your host, Dr. Pamela Gay. I am your host, Beth Johnson. And we are here to put science in your brain. Today’s science is largely radioed...

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...

Planetary Pandemonium for 16 October 2020

Oct 23, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Jupiter, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Those of you who know me know that I have a favorite small body in our solar system: Jupiter’s moon Io. It is covered in volcanoes. Its surface is constantly being re-covered by lava. And plate tectonics is...

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...