Finally, we ready for the Perseid meteor shower, due to rain down to Earth on the nights of the 12th and 13th of August. Next, we take a trip out to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter, along with the Lucy spacecraft, as it readies for launch. Jonathan Lunine, chair of the astronomy department at Cornell University to the show, telling us all about the volcanoes of Venus! But first, we journey out to the L 98-59 planetary system, exploring a trio of intriguing exoplanets. This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome Dr. Subscribe or follow today and never miss an episode! He’ll tell us about the Universe we can’t see with our eyes. Next week 30 November (s5/e20): Matthew Bothwell talks about his new book, The Invisible Universe. Together, we explore the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu, and hear from Cathy Olkin of SwRI, telling us of the journey of Lucy to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.Īll this and more in this week's episode of Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion! In addition, we examine the Dart mission – the first-ever test in space, deflecting an asteroid by impacting it with a spacecraft! We will also be joined by Esen Ercan Alp, senior physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, one of the few people in the world studying samples from the asteroid Ryugu returned from Haybusa2. We're going to examine five major missions happening right now, examining asteroids, and potentially, saving us from the fate of the dinosaurs.īill Bottke, Director of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) joins us talking about the Psyche mission, exploring a metal-rich asteroid for the first time. This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we take a close-up look at asteroids – those lumps or rock, metal, and ice racing around our solar system. Simpson was found innocent of murder), astronomers announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi, the first exoplanet found around a healthy, active, main-sequence star. Bush got ill at the home of the Japanese Prime Minister. This was the week Kristi Yamaguchi won the US female Figure Skating championship, Paul Simon opened a tour of South Africa, and President George H. Three decades before, the first exoplanets were found orbiting pulsars - rapidly spinning corpses of stars, during the second week of 1992. On 21 March 2022, NASA confirmed the 5,000th confirmed exoplanet, marking a milestone in our understanding of the Cosmos. Thayne Currie, astrophysicist at The Subaru Telescope, who recently discovered a planet nine times more massive than Jupiter orbiting a young star a little over 500 light years from Earth. This week on The Cosmic Companion, we look at exoplanets - worlds orbiting alien stars. Exploring exoplanets - worlds orbiting alien stars - talking with Thayne Currie of NAOJ, who recently found a bizarre massive planet.
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