Jim Al-Khalili, OSIRIS REx, IIAPY 2019, tardigrades on the Moon

Listen to the latest episode of Radio Astronomy, the podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

September 13, 2019 at 2:26 pm

This episode we speak to Professor Jim Al-Khalili about humanity’s return to the Moon and the challenges facing our planet.

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Plus, the team discuss the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample collection mission, this year’s Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, a speeding star that’s racing through our Galaxy and recent news of tardigrades on the Moon.

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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

Eye On The Sky Stingray Nebula fading fast in Hubble images

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