Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

 

A jolly romp around covid and tasers!

 

We look back at the astronomy and space exploration highlights of 2020:

• Phosphine in Venus' atmosphere.
• The saga of SpaceX.
• Chang’e-5 at the Moon.
• Comets Atlas & Neowise.
• 3 missions to Mars.

 

The lows of 2020 in astronomy and space exploration:

• Cancellation of SPICA.
• The loss of the Arecibo radio telescope.

 

We look forward to the anticipated events of 2021:

• Luna 25, Chandrayaan-3 & Artemis 1 to the Moon.
• 3 Mars arrivals.
• Vera C Rubin telescope & Maybe JWST.

 

And we run through our own predictions for next year before signing off with our customary end-of-year outtakes.

 

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Bio: Awesome Astronomy is a podcast beamed direct from an underground bunker on Mars to promote science, space and astronomy (and enslave Earth if all goes well).

 

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