Synopsis
A monthly round up of the latest news in astronomy.
Episodes
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The news - April 2019
01/04/2019 Duration: 06minThis month in the news: the asteroids we're visiting, the one that quietly visited us, and a new method of Martian exploration.
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The news - March 2019
08/03/2019 Duration: 08minThis month in the news: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe, Israel's Beresheeft lunar craft, and a fond farewell to Opportunity.
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The news - February 2019
11/02/2019 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: the United States government shutdown and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope
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The news - January 2019
16/01/2019 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the recent New Horizons fly-by, and the Chinese Moon landing.
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The news - December 2018
07/12/2018 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: a gamma ray burst candidate, the Sun's long-lost twin, and black holes in virtual reality.
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The news - November 2018
09/11/2018 Duration: 04minThis month in the news: the slowest-spinning pulsar ever discovered, elusive dust clouds around the Earth finally detected and the Hubble Space Telescope returns.
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The news - October 2018
11/10/2018 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: Hayabusa-2 rovers, black holes and the woman who discovered Pulsers
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The news - September 2018
14/09/2018 Duration: 09minThis month in the news: NASA goes all-American - again, the launch of the Parker solar probe, and getting in touch with Opportunity.
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The news - August 2018
07/08/2018 Duration: 06minThis month in the news: K2 is forced to hibernate, a particle appears in Antarctica and a new scale for close encounters.
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The news - July 2018
24/07/2018 Duration: 03minThis month in the news: a LIGO afterglow, complex organics from Enceladus, and Prof. Hawking takes on eternal inflation.
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The news - June 2018
12/06/2018 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: Dark galaxies discovered by astronomers, a new theory about Pluto's formation and the launch of MeerLICHT telescope in South Africa.
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The news - May 2018
16/05/2018 Duration: 04minThis month in the news: The launch of NASA's TESS observatory, a detailed view of a supermassive black hole's jets and revealing planet-forming disks around young stars.
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The news - April 2018
31/03/2018 Duration: 03minThis month in the news: ARIEL is cleared for launch, galaxies are found to be on time, and unusual elements are sighted in the Galactic bulge.
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The news - March 2018
01/03/2018 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: the most distant supernova ever discovered, the discovery of some of the most massive black holes in the universe and water content in the TRAPPIST-1 planets.
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The news - February 2018
06/02/2018 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: the extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the source of the repeating Fast Radio Burst, exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes, and the first definitive interstellar detection of benzonitrile.
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The news - January 2018
08/01/2018 Duration: 05minThis month in the news: The death of a space pioneer, A solar system to rival our own and The key to Jupiter's winds
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The news - December 2017
04/12/2017 Duration: 07minThis month in the news: a visiting asteroid, a new temperate world, and a lifeline for Arecibo.