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Our Christmas Pantomime sees the Awesome Astronomy crew exploring strange new worlds on the Astronomy Star Ship (ASS) Penetrator.
Between the puerile skits you've come to expect from our end of year shows, we bring you a roundup of the best astronomy and space exploration news from 2022. And, of course, a look forward to the highlights to come in 2023.
To all our listeners, a very merry Christmas, happy holidays and a prosperous 2023 (download or die!).
The Discussion:
The News:
Rounding up the astronomy news in November, we have:
The big news story: What else? Artemis 1 launches to make NASA's return to the moon a reality.
The Sky Guide:
This month we're taking a look at the winter constellation of Perseus with a guide to its history, how to find it, a few deep sky objects to seek out and a round-up of the solar system views on offer in December.
Q&A:
Does the x-ray end of the electromagnetic spectrum have Fraunhofer lines like the visual part? And if not, how is x-ray spectroscopy done? From our good friend Graeme Durden, who we all wish the very best as he continues his radiotherapy treatment.
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And listeners' emails on:
The News:
Rounding up the astronomy news in November, we have:
The big news story: Hipparchus' star charts found buried in early Christian parchments
The Sky Guide:
This month we're taking a look at the winter constellation of Andromeda with a guide to its history, how to find it, a few deep sky objects to seek out and a round-up of the solar system views on offer in November.
Q&A:
What are the wispy striated filaments visible in the JWST images of the Carina Cliffs? From our good friend Rachel Kronick
Christmas 1980.
Suffolk, England.
Two US airmen witness what they believe is an aircraft coming down in the forest next to their base.
So begins the story of the UKs most notorious UFO sighting, the Rendlesham Forest incident.
Paul dives head first into a 'Hat of Woo' special as he explores the mysterious forest of Rendlesham on the Suffolk coast and considers what this famous conspiracy story says about time and place and of course what really happened.
Jeni and Paul talk to Professor Mike Edmunds, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Emeritus Professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University, who is also Dr Jeni's academic grandfather....
Paul gives a quick look at the sky highlights for October and then Jeni, John and Paul host an open panel discussion at AstroCamp where the audience talk about where space begins, JWST, the worth of Artemis and how the infamous Elephant Trunk nebulae incident happened...
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Skyguide:
As we're a little late in the month for a September skyguide, this is a quick guide to the astronomy events to observe over the next few months. Pay attention because there's some great oppositions, occultations, eclipses, meteor showers and possibly even a couple of naked eye comets!
Q&A: Can red-shift, spectroscopy, mass evaluations etc still be counted on even after the images have been distorted & magnified by foreground galaxies? Can the effect of gravitational lensing be accurately accounted for? From our good friend Alan Beech in the UK.
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The News:
The news discussion: Loads of news around the International Space Station
Q&A: What would we like to see happen to the ISS instead of being deorbited? From our good friend Mindy Scott in South Africa.
The Discussion:
The release of JWST's first images, the press conferences and media coverage.
Emails on astrophotography, Dr Jen's TV appearances and a more politically correct alternative name for JWST.
The News:
Rounding up the astronomy news in August, we have:
The big news story: What else? It's JWST innit?
The Sky Guide:
This month we're taking a look at the summer constellation of Cygnus with a guide to its history, how to find it, a couple of deep sky objects and a round-up of the solar system views on offer in August.
Q&A:
No time for Q&A – we've got JWST to prattle on about!
The Discussion:
The News:
The news discussion: NASA's CAPSTONE mission to lunar orbit
Q&A: If you let your breath out couldn't you dash across 100m of lunar surface in a damaged spacesuit? From our good friend Ben Harding in the UK.
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