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The Discussion:

- Jen finally becomes Dr. Jen – bow down pitiful Earthlings!

- Binocular astronomy.

- Get the book Vera Rubin - A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton with 25% off by emailing [email protected], and quoting the discount code H0350 (mentioning Awesome Astronomy probably wouldn’t go amiss too)

Emails from listeners correcting a possible error and posing a teasing question about US refractors.

 

The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have:

- UCL researchers unravel the mystery of the Antikythera mechanism

- The Event Horizon Telescope improves the image of a supermassive black hole by revealing its magnetic fields

- Confirming the existence of the furthest major solar system object

- An exoplanet that lost its atmosphere and then gained another one!

Main News story: CERN’s LHC spots a quirky quark that hints at a big anomaly in the Standard Model of Physics

 

The Sky Guide: This month we’re taking a look at the constellation of Coma Bereneces 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 April.

 

Q&A: You mentioned recently that a comet was a long period comet? What does this mean? How do we know if a comet is a long period comet? From our good friend Arliss Evans in Texas, USA.

 

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