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Escaping Boulders, Black Hole Discoveries, and August Skywatch: SpaceTime S26E93
**Boulders Escaping from Asteroid Dimorphos:** Astronomers have made fascinating discoveries about numerous boulders seen swarming around the asteroid moon Dimorphos. This intriguing phenomenon is believed to be a result of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) asteroid impact mission conduct...
S26E66: Ancient galaxy dies suddenly // Inmarsat denies cyber-attack // Meteorite rocks Queensland // June Skywatch
SpaceTime S26E66 - The James Webb Telescope has discovered an ancient galaxy, called GS-9209, which suddenly and mysteriously died – halting all star formation. Inmarsat has denied suggestions that two recent outages of its I-4 F1 satellite was due to a denial of service cyber-attack by an unfriend...
The Sands of Mars are Green as well as Red
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 94 *The Perseverance rover finds the sands of Mars are green as well as red The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. But NASA’s Perseverance rover has found lots of olivine. *New planetary nebulae discovery Astronomers have confirmed a...
Martian Meteorite Upsets Planet Formation Theory
SpaceTime 20220708 Series 25 Episode 75 *Martian meteorite upsets planet formation theory A new study of an old Martian meteorite is contradicting current ideas of planetary formation. *Another six space tourist kiss the edge of space aboard New Shepard Blue Origin has undertaken its fifth manned sp...
A “Hot Jupiter’s” Dark Side Revealed in Detail for First Time
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 30 *A “hot Jupiter’s” dark side is revealed in detail for first time Astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of a hot Jupiter exoplanet that is “tidally locked” to its host star. The observations reported in the journal Nature Astronomy ...
An Update from Mars
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 102 *Perseverance collects its first samples of the red planet It was a case of second time lucky as NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover successfully collected a sample of red planet rock for the first time. *Curiosity...
Ingenuity Scopes Out the Road Ahead on Mars
The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 90 *Ingenuity scopes out the road ahead on Mars Scientists studying NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter’s ninth flight have revealed a spectacular landscape of dunes and ancient rocky outcrops spread across the dried...
Looking Back to the Cosmic Dawn
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 78 *Looking back to the cosmic dawn A new study claims the first stars began shining between 250 and 350 million years after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. *Hubble still off line as technicians struggle to fi...
Europa's Seafloor Volcanoes
The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 63 *Jovian ice moon Europa could have Seafloor Volcanoes New research shows volcanic activity may have occurred on the seafloor of Jupiter’s ice moon Europa in the recent past – and may still be happening today. *N...