🌏 Get Our Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary or use the checkout code STUARTGARY. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spacetime-with-stuart-gary--2458531/support. The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 21 *The Cosmic Chicken and Egg Conundrum: Black Holes or Galaxies First? The age-old cosmic conundrum has finally been cracked by the Webb Space Te...
Feb 16, 2024•25 min•Season 27Ep. 21
For peace of mind when online and know you are protected get our special 60% off deal on Incogni. Visit www.incogni.com/stuartgary to get the deal The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 20 *The Enigma of Pearl SDG: A Galaxy That Defies Expectations Astronomers are baffled by the discovery of Pearl SDG, a quiescent dwarf galaxy that exists against the odds, isolated and star-formation-free. Detected by NASA's Webb Space Telescope, this galaxy challenges our unders...
Feb 14, 2024•24 min•Season 27Ep. 20
The Space, Astronomy, and Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 19 *Saturn’s Moon Mimas Hides a Watery Secret Mimas, once known merely as the Death Star look-alike, has revealed a startling secret. New research from the Cassini mission data shows that beneath its icy facade, this diminutive moon harbors a youthful subsurface ocean. Only 400 kilometers wide, Mimas's aquatic interior is geologically green, estimated to be a mere 5 to 15 million years old. *Juno's Daring Dance with the Volca...
Feb 12, 2024•28 min•Season 27Ep. 19
The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 18 *Revealing Dark Matter through Lopsided Galaxies A groundbreaking study unveils how asymmetric galaxies could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of dark matter, the elusive substance that dominates the universe's matter content and binds galaxies together. *Virgin Galactic's 2024 Space Tourism Triumph Virgin Galactic soars into the new year with a successful space tourism flight, reaching the fringes of space and marki...
Feb 09, 2024•38 min•Season 27Ep. 18
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Feb 07, 2024•37 min•Season 27Ep. 17
The Space, Astronomy and Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 16 *The Moon is shrinking A new study has confirmed earlier research showing that the Earth’s moon is shrinking causing landslides and instability around the lunar south pole. *NASA analysis confirms 2023 as warmest year on record A new analysis by NASA has confirmed that planet Earth’s average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record. *Stars travel more slowly at Milky Way’s edge By clocking the speed of stars th...
Feb 05, 2024•34 min•Season 27Ep. 16
🌏 Get Our Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary or use the checkout code STUARTGARY. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 15 *Could atmospheric pressure changes be driving Martian methane pulses New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into the Martian atmosphere. *Can red dwarf stars host planets with life after all? ...
Feb 02, 2024•28 min•Season 27Ep. 15
The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 14 *Oceans of frozen water could exist under the Martian equator A potential ice-rich portion of the Medusae Fossae Formation deposits may contain the largest volume of water in the equatorial region of Mars. *Studying bits of Mars already on Earth The United States Army is testing its laboratory capabilities by studying a Martian meteorite that found its way to Earth. *Japan lands on the Moon Japan has become only the fifth...
Jan 31, 2024•26 min•Season 27Ep. 14
The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 13 *NASA shuts down its Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Mission NASA has been forced to end its history-making Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission on the Red planet. *The mystery monster in an ancient globular cluster Astronomers may have detected a monster in the heart of 47 Tucanae one of the most famous globular star clusters in the sky. *Could diamonds drive Neptune and Uranus' magnetic fields A new study suggests that diamond r...
Jan 29, 2024•35 min•Season 27Ep. 13
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Jan 26, 2024•25 min•Season 27Ep. 12
🌏 Get Our Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary or use the checkout code STUARTGARY. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 11 *Claims Mars could have had flowing water for hundreds of millions of years A new study based on impact crater erosion rates suggests water may have flowed across the Martian surface for hundreds of millions of years. *New Webb telescope data shows early galaxies looked like po...
Jan 24, 2024•26 min•Season 27Ep. 11
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 10 *Lessons from the dark energy survey Astronomers taking part in the recent release of data from the Dark Energy survey say the findings closely follow existing predictions of the properties of dark energy but still can’t answer if it’s changing over time. *Titan’s “magic islands” finally explained A new study claims ethane, methane and other organic compounds can accumulate as chunks on the ground on Saturn’s moon Titan, and may even calve l...
Jan 22, 2024•39 min•Season 27Ep. 10
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 9 *The Dark Energy Survey’s unique insights into the expansion of the universe In 1998, astrophysicists discovered that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. They attributed this to a mysterious force called dark energy *Europe’s Einstein Probe lifts off on a mission to monitor the X-ray skies The European Space Agency, the Max Planck Institute and China have joined forces to launch the new Einstein X-ray space telescope into ...
Jan 19, 2024•32 min•Season 27Ep. 9
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 8 *How the mysterious Centaurs gain their comet-like characteristics Close encounter with the gas giant’s Jupiter and Saturn is causing a group of frozen outer solar system asteroid like worlds to evolve comet like features. *Discovering a fast radio burst in just four days Back in 2017 a CSIRO telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ from space after less than four days of searching. *The most distant and most powerful fast radio burst...
Jan 17, 2024•31 min•Season 27Ep. 8
🌏 Get Our Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary or use the checkout code STUARTGARY. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 7 *NASA delays manned return to the Moon until 2026 NASA has scrubbed this year’s planned manned Artemis 2 mission around the Moon. *A successful maiden flight for United Launch's new Vulcan Centaur rocket The United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket has undertaken a suc...
Jan 15, 2024•34 min•Season 27Ep. 7
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Jan 12, 2024•29 min•Season 27Ep. 6
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 5 *Monstrous X5 solar flare launched on New Year's Eve The Sun celebrated the completion of Earth’s latest orbit by blasting out a spectacular X-5 class solar flare dwarfing even Sydney’s new year’s eve fireworks display. *X-37B space shuttle launches aboard Falcon Heavy SpaceX has successfully launched the US Space Force-52 mission carrying an X-37B space shuttle Orbital Test Vehicle on its seventh mission. *Beijing launches its tallest ever r...
Jan 09, 2024•30 min•Season 27Ep. 5
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 4 *Astronomers study the earliest Milky Way type galaxy ever seen A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand the origins of our own Milky Way. *What lies in the exotic heart of a neutron star New theoretical analysis is showing further support for the hypothesis that the cores of neutron stars are composed of deconfined quark matter. *Vulcan Centaur launch delayed until today The United Launch Alliance has del...
Jan 08, 2024•27 min•Season 27Ep. 4
SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 3 *The short life of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies A new study warns that most small satellite galaxies are destroyed soon after they enter the Milky Way’s galactic halo. *Japan lunar lander enters lunar orbit Japan's new lunar lander has entered orbit around the Moon and will undertake a landing attempt with in the next few weeks. *First light for NASA’s new compact infrared radiometer NASA’s first orbital experiments using its latest infrared Earth observation ...
Jan 04, 2024•22 min•Season 27Ep. 3
**Host:** Stuart Gary **Special Guest:** Technology Editor Alex Zaharov-Reutt ### Episode Highlights: 1. **The Dual Nature of the Small Magellanic Cloud**: New research suggests that what was previously thought to be a single galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, is actually two distinct galaxies. This groundbreaking discovery, based on studies of stellar motion and the interstellar medium, challenges previous astronomical beliefs. 2. **The Dwarf Planet Eris's Unexpected Composition**: A recent st...
Jan 02, 2024•29 min•Season 27Ep. 2
Happy New Year from the SpaceTime Team! The Space News Podcast. S SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 1 *Black Hole radio signals helping to unveil secrets of massive galaxies A new study has confirmed that supermassive black holes at the hearts of some of the largest nearby galaxies are also often the brightest radio wave sources in the Universe. *A close encounter with the volcanic world of Io NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just completed its closest ever encounter with the volcanic world of Io. *China la...
Jan 01, 2024•26 min•Season 27Ep. 1
The Space News Podcast SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 156 *Equatorial Launch Australia unveils its plans for new spaceport launch pads Equatorial Launch Australia has unveiled the final plans for its spaceport launch pads at the Arnhem Space Centre east of Darwin. *Rocket Lab back in space Rocket Lab has returned to flight status successfully launching an electron rocket from its Mahia Peninsula space port on New Zealand’s North Island. *North Korea's launches its biggest ICBM North Korean Dictator...
Dec 29, 2023•41 min•Season 26Ep. 156
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 155 *Recent Martian volcanism reveals a more active planet A vast, flat, "featureless" plain on Mars has surprised scientists by revealing a much more tumultuous geologic past than expected. *Betelgeuse Eclipsed Skywatchers were focused on the constellation Orion on December 12 as the asteroid 319 Leona passed in front of bright star Betelgeuse. *Hubble looks at a late-type galaxy One of the great misconceptions in astronomy is the term late-ty...
Dec 27, 2023•25 min•Season 26Ep. 155
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 154 *Sun unleashes its biggest solar flare in years The Sun has unleased its biggest solar flare in years, a massive X2.8 blast of energy which slammed into the Earth triggering two hours of deep shortwave radio blackouts over the Americas. *Webb takes another look at the ringed planet Uranus NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has again trained its sights on the distant enigmatic world of Uranus. *Fermi creates a 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sk...
Dec 25, 2023•26 min•Season 26Ep. 154
SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 153 *New mission for NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft After completing its initial seven year sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is moving on to a new mission studying the asteroid Apophis. *Discovery of planet too big for its Sun Astronomers have discovered a planet that is far too massive for its host star. The finding reported in the journal Science calls into question what was previously understood about planetary formation *Hall...
Dec 22, 2023•26 min•Season 26Ep. 153
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 152 *Deciphering the ancient history of a Martian lake NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has just passed its one thousandth Martian day on the red planet. *MAVEN watches as the Sun’s solar wind suddenly disappears In December 2022, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN – or MAVEN spacecraft observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of the solar wind. *Computer issues affecting Voyager 1 in interstellar space NASA Engineers are w...
Dec 20, 2023•26 min•Season 26Ep. 152
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 151 *Discovery of a record setting brown dwarf Astronomers have discovered what might be the smallest Brown Dwarf ever seen – just three or four times the mass of Jupiter. *How gas-rich baby galaxies set the early Universe alight New observations from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope have helped astronomers unlock secrets of how infant galaxies started an explosion of star formation in the very early Universe. *Hubble Space Telescope back in operati...
Dec 18, 2023•29 min•Season 26Ep. 151
Mysterious Polygons on Mars: Scientists discover strange, irregular wedge-shaped objects buried beneath the Martian surface. Polygons range from centimeters to 10 meters in size and may have formed during ancient freeze-thaw cycles billions of years ago. Possible formation mechanisms include mud cracks from wet sediments and contraction from cooling volcanic lava flows. Zhurong rover detected at least 16 polygons, suggesting a wide distribution. Iran's Nuclear Program: Iran successfully launches...
Dec 15, 2023•28 min•Season 26Ep. 150
SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 149 *Hubble placed in emergency safe mode NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been placed into an emergency safety mode following an issue with one of its gyroscopes. *New joint European and Japanese EarthCARE mission slated for launch. The joint European and Japanese Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer mission – EarthCARE is now slated to launch in May next year on a mission to advance sciences understanding of the interactions between clouds, aerosols and radia...
Dec 13, 2023•21 min•Season 26Ep. 149
The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime 20231211 Series 26 Episode 148 *A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension Ever since its creation in a big bang 13.82 billion years ago the universe has been expanding. But that rate of expansion has been an ongoing area of debate with different measurement techniques giving contradictory values and different results. *The satellite discovered by the Lucy mission gets a name The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy miss...
Dec 11, 2023•37 min•Season 26Ep. 148
