SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

27:02

S26E10: What Brought the Dwarf Planet Ceres to Life...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/23

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 10 *What brought the dwarf planet Ceres to life A new study suggests radioactive decay of minerals could account for heat needed to drive active geology early in the history of the dwarf planet Ceres. *Lonsdaleite in the sky with diamonds Scientists searching for meteorites in outback South Australia are finding diamonds embedded in the space rocks. *Britain’s first orbital rocket launch on home soil fails Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch will work with

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30:57

S26E09: Most Distant Stars in Our Galaxy // Enceladus...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/20

*Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda A new study shows the furthest reaches of the Milky Way galaxy – a region known as the galactic halo is so far away it almost touches the halo of our nearest galactic neighbour the Andromeda galaxy M31. *New evidence for habitability in Enceladus’s ocean The search for extraterrestrial life just got more interesting following the discovery of new evidence for a key building block for life in the subsurface oceans of Saturn’s

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32:43

S26E08: Discovering the Origin of the Solar Wind

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/18

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 8 *Discovering the origin of the solar wind Scientists with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission have uncovered significant new clues about the origins of the solar wind – the continual stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun which baths the Earth and other planets and fills the solar system. *Growing violence as the Sun moves into solar cycle 25 The Sun has begun displaying its anger with a string of powerful solar flare blasting intense radiation into space

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41:04

S26E07: Strange Signal

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/16

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 7 *Spinning stars shed new light on a strange signal coming from the galactic center Astronomers say a mysterious excess in gamma ray energy radiating out from the Milky Way’s galactic bulge which was long thought to be a potential signature of dark matter could actually be as a vast population of white dwarf stars which have collapsed to become millisecond pulsars. *Water-rich fracture halos discovered in Gale Crater Scientists have discovered fracture halos containing

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24:01

S26E06: Big Blast on the Volcanic Moon IO

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/13

*Big blast on the volcanic moon IO Astronomers has detected a massive eruption on the on the volcanic Jovian moon IO. *How the Sun’s activity influences deep space cosmic rays Astronomers have discovered how changes in the Sun’s eleven year solar cycle effect the high energy cosmic rays reaching the inner solar system. *Europe’s newest advanced weather satellite launched into space The European Space Agency has launched its first Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite MTG-I1 – into geostationary

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22:48

S26E05: Explaining the Mysterious Fermi Bubbles at...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/11

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 5 *Explaining the mysterious Fermi Bubbles at the centre of the Milky Way A new study has shown how the Fermi bubbles – a pair of massive gamma-ray emitting bubbles emanating from around the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy -- could have been produced by a super massive black hole. *Milky Way like Galaxies discovered in the early universe New images from NASA’s spectacular James Webb telescope has detected Milky Way-like galaxies in very early universe. *China launches two

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42:37

S26E04: Uncovering the Quantum Mysteries of Black Holes

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/09

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 4 *Uncovering the quantum mysteries of black holes A new study suggests that the universe’s most exotic objects -- black holes -- can have different masses simultaneously. *NASA’s angels do play this HAARP NASA has used the powerful HAARP array in the remote north of Alaska to study an asteroid. *Five new Australian satellites launched by SpaceX SpaceX starts the new year setting a new launch record with 114 satellites on a single rocket, including five Australian

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45:08

S26E03: Exotic Neutron Star // Japan Lunar Lander //...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/06

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 3 *Have astronomers just found the most exotic type of neutron star ever seen? Astronomers have identified an unusually small neutron star that could be the first ever confirmed detection of a strange star. *Japan’s lunar lander on its way to the Moon A Japanese spacecraft carrying a small lunar rover is on its way to the Moon following a spectacular night time launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. *SpaceX wraps up a busy year December was a busy

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36:11

S26E02 - Where Did the First Quasars Come From? //...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/04

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 2 *Where did the first quasars come from? New computer simulations reported in the current issue of Australian sky and Telescope Magazine suggest the universe’s first quasars probably originated from supermassive black holes formed from the collapse of massive clouds of gas. *Why the Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the North For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew that the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait in the Southern Hemisphere – now we

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30:04

S26E01: How Spiral Galaxies Lose Their Arms // Ryugu...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2023/01/03

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 1 *How spiral galaxies lose their arms A new study suggests spiral galaxies like our own galaxy the Milky Way lose their stunning spirals when they lose the molecular gas needed for star formation. *The asteroid Ryugu sheds new light on the solar system’s history Scientists studying samples returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu have found its composed of some of the first solid material in the solar system. *Solar Orbiter solves one of the Sun’s great magnetic

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31:22

S25E142 - NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Start Setting...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/30

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 142 *NASA’s Perseverance rover to start setting up the Martian sample depot NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has started work to set up a Mars sample return depot on the red planet – the first to be established on another world. *A new satellite launched to monitor all the world’s water The joint Franco-American scientific satellite has been successfully launched into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. *China sets a new record

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29:51

S25E141: Vega C Explodes in Mid Flight // Soyuz...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/28

*Vega C explodes in mid flight The European Space Agency has suspended all Vega flights and established an independent board of inquiry following the failure of a Vega C rocket during its ascent to orbit. *A violent leak threatens the space worthiness of a Soyuz capsule docked to the space station The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos are trying to determine if the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is safe to return crew to Earth after it sprung a violent coolant leak. *The space station forced to

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40:08

S25E140: Insight Lander Goes Silent // Biggest...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/26

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 140 *NASA’s Insight lander goes silent NASA’s Mars Insight lander has failed to respond to calls from mission managers back on Earth and may have gone silent after running out of power. *Biggest Marsquake ever recorded Insight scientists are reporting Insights detection of the largest marsquake ever recorded on the red planet – some five times bigger than any previously recorded event. *Stunning meteoroid Impacts detected on Mars Meanwhile, scientists sifting through data

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30:45

S25E139 - Mars Helicopter Sets New Record // Could...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/23

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 139 *Mars helicopter sets new altitude record NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter has set a new altitude record on its 35th flight on the red planet. *Dark matter could be made up of dark photons A team of scientists have hypothesized that a mysterious substance called dark matter could be composed of something they’re calling dark photons. *NASA’s Mars InSight lander still operational – but only just NASA’s Mars InSight mission is still alive and operating despite a major

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24:02

S25E138: First-Ever Sound Recording of Dust Devils on...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/21

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 138 *First-ever sound recording of dust devils on Mars Astronomers get the first ever sound recording of a dust devil twisting its way across the surface of Mars. *What the first galaxies were, and weren't, like Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn. *Taikonauts return home

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51:30

S25E137: Mysterious Meteor that Changes Everything //...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/19

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 137 *The mysterious meteor that changes everything Astronomers believe that a meteor which streaked across the darkened skies of central Alberta didn’t originate in the inner solar system but from the far reaches of the distant Oort cloud. *NASA’s Artemis 1 mission declared a massive success NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down in the North Pacific Ocean, 160 kilometres west of Baja California ending its record-breaking 2.6-million-kilometre

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27:00

S25E136: What Earth’s Volcanic History Can Tell Us...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/16

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 136 *What Earth’s volcanic history can tell us about Venus A new study claims volcanic activity lasting hundreds to thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus from a warm wet world like the Earth in to the acidic hothouse it is today. *The Moonlight initiative The European Space Agency has commenced development of the Moonlight initiative -- a new project designed to ultimately provide autonomous lunar communications

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32:49

S25E135: Paradigm-Changing Cosmic Explosion //...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/14

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 135*Astronomers identify a paradigm-changing cosmic explosionOur standard Astronomy text books will need to be re-written after scientists discovered a distant blast unlike anything ever seen before.*Saturn’s rings and tilt could have been caused by an ancient, missing moonA new study suggests that the majestic ringed world of Saturn may ow its spectacular ring system and tilt to an ancient missing moon.*New spy satellite launched by the KremlinThe Kremlin has launched a

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32:51

S25E134: Giant Mantle Plume Identified on Mars // New...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/12

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 134*A giant mantle plume identified on MarsA new study suggests the Martian core could still be at least partially molten liquid. The findings reported in the journal Nature Astronomy are based on the detection of what appears to be a deep mantle plume – a region of liquid magma heated by the planet’s core and rising towards the surface.*A new technique to study planetary interiorsSeismologists from The Australian National University have developed a new technique showing

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54:43

S25E133 Mysterious Bright Flash Pointing At Earth

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2022/12/09

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 133*The mysteriously bright flash pointing straight at EarthEarlier this year, astronomers detected an extraordinary bright flash in a part of the sky half way across the universe where no such light had ever been observed before.*Construction begins on the Square Kilometre ArrayWe’ve been talking about it for more than a dozen years planning for it almost as long …Now finally construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the SKA Observatory is

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