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**Host:** Stuart Gary **Special Guest:** Technology Editor Alex Zaharov-Reutt ### Episode Highlights: 1. **The Dual Nature of the Small Magellanic Cloud**: New research suggests that what was previously thought to be a single galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, is actually two distinct galaxies. This groundbreaking discovery, based on studies of…

Happy New Year from the SpaceTime Team! The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 1 *Black Hole radio signals helping to unveil secrets of massive galaxies A new study has confirmed that supermassive black holes at the hearts of some of the largest nearby galaxies are also often the…

Happy New Year from the SpaceTime Team! The Space News Podcast. S SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 1 *Black Hole radio signals helping to unveil secrets of massive galaxies A new study has confirmed that supermassive black holes at the hearts of some of the largest nearby galaxies are also often…

The Space News Podcast SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 156 *Equatorial Launch Australia unveils its plans for new spaceport launch pads Equatorial Launch Australia has unveiled the final plans for its spaceport launch pads at the Arnhem Space Centre east of Darwin. *Rocket Lab back in space Rocket Lab has returned…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 155 *Recent Martian volcanism reveals a more active planet A vast, flat, "featureless" plain on Mars has surprised scientists by revealing a much more tumultuous geologic past than expected. *Betelgeuse Eclipsed Skywatchers were focused on the constellation Orion on December 12 as…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 154 *Sun unleashes its biggest solar flare in years The Sun has unleased its biggest solar flare in years, a massive X2.8 blast of energy which slammed into the Earth triggering two hours of deep shortwave radio blackouts over the Americas. *Webb…

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 153 *New mission for NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft After completing its initial seven year sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is moving on to a new mission studying the asteroid Apophis. *Discovery of planet too big for its Sun Astronomers have discovered a…

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 147 *Detection of one of the highest-energy cosmic ray ever In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Then on May 27, 2021, the Telescope Array experiment detected what is now the second-highest extreme-energy cosmic ray ever recorded…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 146 *A new perspective on Mars Mission managers have maneuvered NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft to provide a new panoramic horizontal view of the red planet. *Determining the composition of the rock comet Phaethon. Phaethon has always been a puzzle for astronomers. The…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 152 *Deciphering the ancient history of a Martian lake NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has just passed its one thousandth Martian day on the red planet. *MAVEN watches as the Sun’s solar wind suddenly disappears In December 2022, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 145 *Solar activity likely to peak next year. A new study claims the Sun will reach the peak of its eleven year solar Cycle next year. The current Solar cycle -- 25 began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 151 *Discovery of a record setting brown dwarf Astronomers have discovered what might be the smallest Brown Dwarf ever seen – just three or four times the mass of Jupiter. *How gas-rich baby galaxies set the early Universe alight New observations from…

Mysterious Polygons on Mars: • Scientists discover strange, irregular wedge-shaped objects buried beneath the Martian surface. • Polygons range from centimeters to 10 meters in size and may have formed during ancient freeze-thaw cycles billions of years ago. • Possible formation mechanisms include mud cracks from wet sediments and contraction…

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 149 *Hubble placed in emergency safe mode NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been placed into an emergency safety mode following an issue with one of its gyroscopes. *New joint European and Japanese EarthCARE mission slated for launch. The joint European and Japanese Earth Cloud Aerosol and…

The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has now been given an official name – Selam – which means peace in the Ethiopian language Amharic. The tiny moon was discovered orbiting the asteroid Dinkinesh during Lucy’s fly by last month. Hear the full story in…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime 20231211 Series 26 Episode 148 *A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension Ever since its creation in a big bang 13.82 billion years ago the universe has been expanding. But that rate of expansion has been an ongoing area of debate with different measurement…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 147 *Detection of one of the highest-energy cosmic ray ever In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Then on May 27, 2021, the Telescope Array experiment detected what is now the second-highest extreme-energy…

SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 146 *A new perspective on Mars Mission managers have maneuvered NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft to provide a new panoramic horizontal view of the red planet. *Determining the composition of the rock comet Phaethon. Phaethon has always been a puzzle for astronomers. The five kilometre wide space…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 145 *Solar activity likely to peak next year. A new study claims the Sun will reach the peak of its eleven year solar Cycle next year. The current Solar cycle -- 25 began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number…

This episode is brought to you by the support of Dragonball Legends. Download and play for free from the Apple App store or Google Play. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 144 *Explaining why galaxies hang out with their own kind A new study may have solved one of the most perplexing…

This episode is brought to with the support of Dragonball Legends. Available for your mobile device from the Apple App Store and Google Play Stores. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 143 *Triple star discoveries will mean changing astronomy textbooks Astronomers have found some of the biggest stars in the universe orbiting…

This episode is brought to with the support of Dragonball Legends. Available for your mobile device from the Apple App Store and Google Play Stores. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 143 *Triple star discoveries will mean changing astronomy textbooks Astronomers have found some of the biggest stars in the universe orbiting…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 142 *Discovery of massive mysterious blasts in the distant universe Astronomers are baffled by a mysterious series of massive explosions in the distant Universe which are emitting more energy than hundreds of billions of stars like our Sun. *Colliding neutron stars reveal…

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 26 Episode 142 *Discovery of massive mysterious blasts in the distant universe Astronomers are baffled by a mysterious series of massive explosions in the distant Universe which are emitting more energy than hundreds of billions of stars like our Sun. *Colliding neutron stars reveal…