AWESOME ASTRONOMY15 Nov 2021

#113 - November 2021 Part 2

The Discussion:

Jen as a space expert on BBC1's Breakfast show
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An email on the less than stellar working conditions at Blue Origin

The News:

The results of Astro2020 - the next decadal survey from the US National Academies of Sciences
NASA's moon programme officially slips back a year
SpaceX's 3rd crewed launch to the International Space Station
Heinz go all 'Mark Watney' with tomatoes.

The news discussion: Commercial plans to build TWO space stations before 2030.

Nebulas: Our new show segment replacing the concluded moons of the solar system. This month we're turning our attention to the weird and wonderful nebulae that you can see through telescopes or use to understand the interstellar medium and star formation. In the coming months we'll delve into each type of nebula.

Q&A: How many journeys would it take for all space tourists' ejected faeces to coalesce into a single stool of such mass that its gravity would turn it to a rock of a size that posed enough of a threat to existence that an asteroid redirect-type intervention would be required? From our good friend Andrew Osborne in the UK.

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Eclipse Girl Summer

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The Secret History of a Space Mission

The idea that sparked a billion-dollar space telescope was recorded in the most unlikely of places: a scrap of paper fished out a pocket while gondolas sailed by in Venice. In this talk, award-winning...

19 Jun 1h 10min

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1 Jun 51min

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19 Mai 1h 6min

AstroCamp Live Show

A show recorded with the happy campers of Cwmdu. We talk smart scopes, late nights, planetary formation, news on Comet 3I and more on the Hubble tension. Produced by Paul, Jen, John, Damien & Dustin

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