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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...

Cosmic Mystery Solved and Stellar Missing Link Discovered

Nov 24, 2020 | Daily Space, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Nebulae, Observatories, Our Solar System, Saturn, Stars

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Today’s top story focuses on the Blue Ring Nebula, which researchers say is the phase of a star merger never seen before, providing the missing link for merger progression. Plus, stories on Mars,...

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...

Science Story Double Feature

Sep 28, 2020 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Mars, Milky Way, Quantum, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on LibsynWatch on Twitch Transcript In today’s top story, we have an update on the Event Horizon Telescope’s observations of the supermassive black hole in the core M87. In 2019, an amazing image of the glowing material and bent light twisting...

Enceladus, a magnetar, and a comet aurora, oh my!

Sep 21, 2020 | Cassini, Comets, Daily Space, ESA, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Saturn

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript After last week’s constant thrum of new and exciting news, I’m somewhat relieved to say this particular Monday is a rather slow news day. We expect things to change as the week goes on. The virtual...

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

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript The weird thing about our solar system is that we don’t know how many large worlds it has or that it formed with. For all we know, there are one or more large worlds, with masses like Earth’s or...