Astronomers Discover a Pulsar Powering Up
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Astronomers Discover a Pulsar Powering Up

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 83*Astronomers discover a pulsar powering upAstronomers have for the first time seen material spiralling into a distant neutron star and triggering a massive outburst of energy thousands of times brighter than the Sun.*The solar system’s largest impact crater discovered on GanymedeAstronomers have discovered what appears to be the solar system’s largest impact crater on the Jovian moon Ganymede.*SpaceX completes test hop of its colonial transport starship prototypeA basic test article prototype of SpaceX’s future interplanetary colonial transport system starship has successfully completed a test hop at the company’s Boca Chica test centre on the Texas Gulf of Mexico coast.*The International Space Station about to get smaller with the loss of a moduleA Russian Progress cargo ship which will detach and destroy one of the modules of the International Space Station has docked with the Space Station just three hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan.https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/624506685439049728 *The Science ReportVladimir Putin approves the world’s first coronavirus vaccine without proper testing.Hundreds if not thousands of Chinese scientific papers found to be deliberate fakes.Another secret of Stonehenge revealed.Evidence that Torres Strait islanders were cultivating bananas more than two thousand years ago.The skeptic’s guide to biodynamic wine.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 84*New study warns that alien life would be dangerous to EarthlingsDiscovery that alien peptides containing two amino acids commonly found in carbonaceous meteorites would pose a serious threat to human health.*NASA looking at a new mission to VenusThe proposed mission named VERITAS would transform sciences understanding of the internal geodynamics that shaped Earth’s sister planet Venus.*The Kremlin tests its new anti-satellite weaponMoscow has conducted a space-based anti-satellite weapons test-firing a projectile from its Cosmos 2543 satellite.*China growing eyes in the skyChina has launched another high-resolution surveillance satellite part of a growing constellation of almost a hundred eyes in the sky keeping a close watch on Beijing’s friends and enemies.*The Science ReportCOVID-19 lockdowns cause the longest and most prominent reduction in man-made noise on record.Your chances of getting COVID-19 in a commuter situation such as on a train, bus, or plane.New Zealand's melting glaciers are ten times more like to be caused by global warming.Paleontologists have discovered a new species theropod dinosaur in Portugal.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 85*Asteroid Psyche could be the core of an unformed planetA new study of the Main Belt asteroid Psyche suggests it could be the remnant of a planet that never formed.*New discovery about the Higgs BosonPhysicists at CERN the European Centre for nuclear research have witnessed the Higgs Boson decaying into a pair of muons.*Satellite Navigation systemsSatellite navigation systems have become essential to our way of life – especially travel – but how do they work?*South Korea’s first military communications satellite launchedSpaceX has successfully launched South Korea’s first military communications satellite into geostationary orbit.*The Science ReportCOVID-19 infections are linked to heart damage.Kids under five may be important drivers of the COVID-19 virus.How sleep helps improve your memory.A new species of sauropod dinosaur discovered in China.Beijing makes it illegal to question Traditional Chinese Medicine.For more SpaceTime visit https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com (mobile friendly). For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotesGet immediate access to over 200 commercial-free, double and triple episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.comTo receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist or visit https://www.bitesz.com/astronomy-daily

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