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The Star That Was Born Twice: Orion’s Nebula Mystery
October 28, 2026 · 24 minShow notes Astronomy Daily S05E215 — The Star That Was Born Twice (Tuesday 27 October 2026). Hosts Anna and Avery. Lead: the Orion Nebula's age paradox. Its planet-forming discs and its expanding gas shell both look far younger than its…
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A Gamma-Ray Burst’s Split Personality: The Week Swift Fell Silent
October 27, 2026 · 26 minShow notes In 2016, NASA's Swift caught a gamma-ray burst that came in two parts: a 1.7-second spike, four minutes of silence, then a 51-second burst from the same spot. A new Nature Astronomy paper finds that nearly every classification…
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Artemis 4: The Moon's Tiebreaker Awaits - The Weekend Wrap
October 25, 2026 · 19 minShow notes NASA lays out Artemis III day by day: fourteen days in Earth orbit, two rival landers, one Orion. Plus the week that was, Swift's final bow, and Venus changing sides. The Rehearsal NASA's 23 October Artemis update laid out…
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Starry Nights and Cosmic Insights: Van Gogh's Real Sky Revealed
October 24, 2026 · 23 minShow notes Astronomers argue The Starry Night shows a real pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy around 22 July 1889; Roman enters science commissioning; Rubin's test camera and the Seagull Nebula; quick hits on Hera, Starship, Swift and Artemis…
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From Solar Storms to Martian Canyons: The Latest in Space News
October 23, 2026 · 25 minShow notes Last November the Sun produced its strongest radiation storm in almost twenty years, and this time scientists were ready: neutron monitors from Cornwall to Shetland, sensors on transatlantic airliners, and weather balloons…
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Born Thick, Settled Thin
October 22, 2026 · 22 minShow notes The Milky Way's disc settled in two stages; metal-rich gas around Sgr A*; two mirror-image simulated universes; shadows in the Orion Bar; quick hits on Hera, Uzbekistan and Artemis; Orionid-night skywatch. Sources · IAC…
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Cracking the Moon's Secrets: New Findings on Lunar Shrinkage
October 21, 2026 · 22 minShow notes The Moon Is Still Shrinking Watters, Banks, Nypaver and Robinson (Planetary Science Journal, 14 Oct 2026) map more than 10,000 young thrust faults — ~8,900 lobate scarps and 2,000+ small mare ridges — with LRO's camera. Together…
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A Round Trip to Phobos Underway
October 20, 2026 · 24 minMMX: A Round Trip to Phobos JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration mission launched on schedule on H3 Flight No. 10 at 04:41:03 JST on 20 October 2026 (19:41 UTC 19 Oct; 06:41 AEDT Tue; 15:41 EDT / 12:41 PDT / 20:41 BST Mon). Mars orbit August…
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Time's Tipping Point: The End of Leap Seconds and a Lunar Clock Revolution
October 18, 2026 · 22 minShow notes Time Lets Go of the Sky On 15 October 2026 the 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles adopted Resolution 5: UTC becomes continuous on 20 May 2027, ending leap seconds, with the UTC–UT1 gap allowed to reach…
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Stellar Breakthroughs: The Discovery of Deuterated Methanol and the First Green Star
October 17, 2026 · 27 minShow notes Episode 206 opens with the first results from ALMA's COMPASS survey: the first detection anywhere in interstellar space of fully deuterated methanol, and methanol masers turning up around more than half of a sample of young…
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Martian Mystery: Unveiling the Secrets of Arsia Mons' Elusive Clouds
October 16, 2026 · 25 minShow notes A cloud on Mars that forms only if textbook-theoretical physics really happens; Webb maps a hot Jupiter's edge angle by angle; multi-planet systems turn out to come in two families tied to their stars; and the Sagittarius dwarf…
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Cosmic Revelations: Artemis 2's Historic Observations and the Case of Hypernovae
October 15, 2026 · 25 minShow notes Six months after Artemis II swung around the far side of the Moon, NASA has published what the crew saw, said and sketched — including five faint impact flashes spotted during a 54-minute eclipse. Plus: two UCL papers that take…

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