The Daily Space – Page 2 – A quick round up of all that is new in space and astronomy.

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

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript It’s 2020, and let’s face it, all of us are occasionally feeling a little lost. Is it Tuesday? Wednesday? Who knows. Let’s call it Blursday. Where is everyone? In a Zoom window that could be connected...

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...

Galaxies have magnetic fields, too; ultraviolet flash spotted with supernova; multi-planet system directly imaged; new method finds ‘lost’ worlds

Jul 23, 2020 | Daily Space, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Supernovae, Very Large Array, White Dwarfs

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript NOTE: Stay tuned today at the end of the podcast and stream for the bonus content of the docking of the Progress 76 capsule at the International Space Station. I would like to start today’s episode by...

Rocket Roundup for July 22, 2020

Jul 22, 2020 | Daily Space, Rockets, SpaceX

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript First up, four super-secret spy satellites were launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport aboard a Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket on July 15, 2020, at 1:46 PM (UTC). IMAGE CREDIT: NRO There are...

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

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

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript The one thing that limits our ability to understand our universe, more than anything else, is money. Funding for space exploration limits how many spacecraft we can send to other worlds. Funding for...