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Quick plunge in sunlight caused Snowball Earths; remnants of globular cluster found; loop quantum cosmology breaks our brains

Jul 30, 2020 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Earth, Globular Cluster

Join us today as we go back in time and examine what caused Earth to become a snowball… more than once. We also take a look at a dismembered globular cluster found at the edge of the Milky Way. And finally, Dr. Pamela gets to explain loop quantum cosmology. Wish her luck!

Rocket Roundup for July 29, 2020

Jul 29, 2020 | Daily Space, Mars, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Rovers, Space China

Join us for this week’s Rocket Roundup with host Annie Wilson as we look back at the launches that did and didn’t happen, including the second mission to Mars of the launch window, this one from China. Plus a Roscosmos resupply mission to the ISS and a Chinese rocket full of satellites.

RAVE spectroscopic survey releases final data set; “central engine” of a solar flare characterized; conveyor belt of material seen feeding young star system from parent cloud

Jul 28, 2020 | Daily Space, Star Forming Region, Stars, The Sun

Join us today while we take a look at the final data set released by the RAVE spectroscopic survey of stars in the southern hemisphere. Also, scientists at Harvard’s CfA have characterized the “central engine” of a solar flare from our Sun. And finally, scientists in Europe observed a parent cloud feeding material to a pair of young stars.

Oddball meteorite family finally has an origin story; Juno takes first pictures of Ganymede’s North Pole; Summer on Saturn in new Hubble image

Jul 27, 2020 | Daily Space, ESA, Jupiter, Our Solar System, Planets, Saturn

Join us today while we take a look at the new origin story for an oddball family of meteorites. Yes, like a comic book hero, the parent (body) is no more. Additionally, we are treated to new images: NASA’s Juno mission gives us Ganymede’s North Pole, and the Hubble Space Telescope presents summer at Saturn.

Active volcanoes on Venus; mini-Neptune exoplanets may be ocean worlds; observing comet NEOWISE

Jul 21, 2020 | Comets, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Venus

Join us today for exciting news that Venus still has active volcanoes! Also, mini-Neptune/super-Earth exoplanets are possibly irradiated ocean worlds, minus Kevin Costner. And we’ll talk about how to observe comet NEOWISE over the next few days as it climbs higher in the northern hemisphere’s night sky.

Mission updates! NASA’s New Horizons seeking another target; Emirates Hope orbiter set to launch for Mars; NASA and ESA release first Solar Orbiter images

Jul 16, 2020 | Daily Space, ESA, Mars, Our Solar System, Perseverance, The Sun

Join us today as we look at all the spacecraft mission updates. First up, NASA’s New Horizons mission is searching for another Kuiper Belt Object to pass. Next, the Emirates Hope orbiter is set to launch to Mars this month. Finally, we get to share brand new images from the NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter, fresh off the press this morning.