SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

31:25

Astronomers Witness a Nearby Star Being Eaten by a...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/21

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 137*Astronomers witness a nearby star being eaten by a black holeAstronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole a million times the mass of the Sun.*Scientists begin to study the asteroid samples from RyuguScientists say the samples of asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth aboard the Hayabusa 2 mission look like black sooty sand.*The

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38:40

A Total Solar Eclipse Over South America

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/18

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 136*A Total Solar Eclipse Over South AmericaThe good citizenry of Chile and Argentina have experienced a total solar eclipse.*The space station gets a new air lockA new Air lock has arrived aboard the International Space Station. The equipment was flown up on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the latest resupply mission to the orbiting outpost.*Golden Wattles fly into orbitThe latest Dragon cargo

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24:25

New Evidence of How Dark Matter Behaves

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/16

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 135*New evidence of how dark matter behavesAstronomers have discovered new characteristics about mysterious dark matter after watching a galaxy being eaten by another bigger galaxy.*New discoveries about how planetary nebulae are madeAstronomers have discovered that the mesmerising spiral structures seen in planetary nebulae are generated by companion stars or planets orbiting around the dying

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36:06

Hayabusa2 Lands at Woomera

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/14

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 134*Hayabusa2 lands at WoomeraThe first pristine subsurface samples of an asteroid have been safely returned to Earth with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 re-entry capsule parachuting down onto the Woomera Rocket range in outback South Australia.*Hints of new physics in polarized light from the big bangScientists have glimpsed hints of new physics in Planck data from the cosmic

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34:29

The Star Making Enough Dust to build an Earth-sized...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/11

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 133*The star-making enough dust to build an Earth-sized planet every yearAstronomers have discovered a Wolf-Rayet star system producing enough material to make a planet the size of Earth every year.*The threat of Apophis refuses to go awayA new threat to the Earth is being posed by the asteroid Apophis.*Fears it could take a year to fix a problem aboard the Orion capsuleEngineers with NASA and

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25:37

Likely Source for the Famous Wow Signal

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/09

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 132*Discovery of a likely source for the famous Wow signalA new study may have finally narrowed down the likely source of the famous wow signal.*A Bose-Einstein Condensate created in Earth orbitNASA says its Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station is opening new windows on some of the fundamental physics of Quantum Mechanics.*Assembly begins on NASA’s first SLS rocketNASA has officially

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25:47

Closer Than Thought

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/07

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 131*Planet Earth closer to the supermassive black hole than previously thoughtA new study claims the Earth is some two thousand light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy than previously thought.*Ancient megafloods on MarsA new study suggests gigantic megafloods may have once covered the red planet’s surface -- even changing its climate.*Arecibo telescope

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32:48

A Violent Encounter

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/04

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 130*The Large Magellanic Cloud’s violent encounter with the Milky WayA new study has found that a neighbouring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud is twisting and deforming the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy.*Washington launches a new top secret spy satelliteThe United launch Alliance has successfully launched an Atlas V rocket carrying the highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office NROL-101

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23:34

Fossil Galaxy Hidden in the Milky Way

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/12/02

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 129*Fossil galaxy hidden in the Milky WayAstronomers have discovered a fossil galaxy hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way galaxy.*New study claims Venus hasn’t lost its water to spaceA new study suggests that despite being the hottest planet in the solar system Venus has lost little of its original water content to space over the past four billion years.*New Copernicus satellite to monitor

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30:07

A New Look at the Evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/30

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 128*A new look at the evolution of the Milky Way GalaxySome hypotheses on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behaviour of some of its oldest stars.*Earth mini moon CD3 is a natural body and not space junkAstronomers using data collected with the 4.3 metre Lowell Discovery Telescope have helped to characterize only the second known mini-moon of Earth, a

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36:49

New Mission to Study the Rock Comet Phaethon

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/27

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 127*New mission to study the rock comet PhaethonGermany and Japan are developing a new mission to study the strange asteroid 3200 Phaethon.*Europa’s water plumes could originate in its crustA new study suggests water plumes erupting from Jupiter's ice moon Europa might originate in the frozen crust itself – rather than being forced up from the underlying sub surface ocean.*The great Arecibo radio

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30:01

Measuring the Rotation of the Milky Way’s Central...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/25

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 126*Measuring the rotation of the Milky Way’s central black holeAstronomers have for the first time measured the rotational spin of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.*The Jovian ice moon Europa glows in the darkScientists have discovered that the Jovian ice moon Europa doesn’t just shine in reflected sunlight – it actually glows in the dark.*The latest launch failure

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34:44

Brightest Kilonova Ever Seen

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/23

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 125*Brightest kilonova ever seenAstronomers have detected the brightest kilonova event ever seen unleashing more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 12-billion-year lifetime.*A new way of seeing invisible dark matterAstronomers have found a new way to estimate the amount of mysterious dark matter contained in halos around galaxies.*A record close shave as asteroid 2020

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36:56

A New Look at the Early Life of Jupiter and Saturn

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/20

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 124*A new look at the early life of Jupiter and SaturnA new study has narrowed down the likely original orbits of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.*Why is the Moon rusting?Scientists think they may have solved one of the Moon’s little mysteries – how an airless bone-dry world can rust?*Studying climate and weather from spaceScientists are seeing an increasing level of global warming on Earth

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24:39

Virgin Plans its First New Mexico Space Launch this...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/18

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 123*Virgin plans its first New Mexico space launch this monthVirgin Galactic plans to undertake its first manned space flight from its new New Mexico spaceport within the next few weeks.*Rocket lab launches its fifth flight this yearThere’s still no launch date for Rocket labs first Electron flight from its new Wallops Island Launch complex on the Virginian Mid-Atlantic coast.*A second cable fails at the Arecibo ObservatoryEngineers are working to

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38:50

Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/16

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 122*More evidence linking Magnetars to mysterious Fast Radio BurstsAstronomers have identified a sudden and violent outburst from a type of neutron star called a magnetar, as the likely source for those mysterious events known as Fast Radio Bursts.*New data release helps explain the evolution of the Milky Way GalaxyAstronomers have just released GALAH DR3 – the largest set of stellar chemical data ever compiled. The study was undertaken at the Siding

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25:04

Ancient Galactic Mystery Deepens

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/13

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 121*Ancient galactic mystery deepensA new study of distant galaxies in the very early universe has found that they were already far more massive and mature than previously thought.*Pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds discovered in fireball meteoriteScientists have discovered pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds in samples recovered from a fireball meteorite.*How NASA will phone home from the MoonNASA has selected Nokia Bell Labs to develop

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38:00

A Mars-sized Rogue Planet Discovered

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/11

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 120*A Mars-sized Rogue planet discoveredAstronomers have detected a Mars-sized rogue planet travelling through interstellar space.*Celebrating twenty years of continuous human presence on the International Space StationThe International Space Station has just celebrated twenty years of continuous human presence in space.*Russia’s new spy satellite cloaking technologyThe Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has patented a cloaking spacecraft to avoid

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34:00

NASA Back in Touch with Voyager 2

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/09

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 119*NASA back in touch with Voyager 2 in interstellar spaceNASA has re-established command control of the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The Agency’s 70 metre Canberra Deep Space Network radio dish – the only antenna capable of contacting the 43-year-old spacecraft -- successfully sent a series of commands to the probe.*The mystery of the CentaursAstronomers have discovered a rare active centaur in the dark expanse of the outer solar system.*The meaning of a blue

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30:01

When We Look at the Stars is There Anyone Looking Back?

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary ·

2020/11/06

SpaceTime 20201106 Series 23 Episode 118*When we look at the stars is there anyone looking back?Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap a picture of the Earth from billions of kilometres away -- resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph -- two astronomers now offer another unique cosmic perspective.*Another delay for Russian Space Station moduleThe Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos says it now plans to launch its Nauka science module to the

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