The Space Show

2024.08.28 | An Astronomical Miscellany

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 August 2024:

Space Show News:

* Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test update —Starliner to return uncrewed and the crew to return on Crew Dragon 9 in February 2025

Astronomical Miscellany:

  • ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array) — European Southern Observatory, Chile
  • HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) — European Southern Observatory
  • Europa Clipper being prepared for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
  • Luna H-Map results
  • JWST discovers most distant galaxy
  • Solar spicules
  • ESA’s Solar Orbiter sheds light on solar wind
  • Plasma oscillations around Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
  • The van Allen Radiation belts
  • Exoplanets

    • (Audio inserts courtesy JSC, ESO, JPL, ASU, GSFC)

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    The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia