SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 31 *Count down for Australia’s return to orbit If all goes according to plan -- in almost exactly a year from now Australia will officially become a space-faring nation – again. *Interstellar visitors are more common than thought A new study suggests around seven interstellar visitors pass throug...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 30 *Organic material crucial for life discovered on the asteroid Itokawa Scientists have found water and organic material on the surface of a sample from the asteroid Itokawa. *A journey through the Main asteroid belt The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is a torus-shaped region occupi...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 29 *First drive for the new Mars Perseverance rover NASA’s new Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has undertaken its first tentative test drive across the red planet’s surface. *A new map of binary star systems near the Sun Astronomers have developed the most comprehensive map ever achieved of binary s...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 28 *Massive supernova remnant discovered Astronomers combining data from different types of telescopes have discovered a massive supernova remnant hiding in plain sight. *The origin of the Zodiacal Light finally revealed Data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft suggests that Mars may be the source of the...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 27 *A change in dark energy to try and resolve a cosmological conundrum The universe was created by a Big Bang 13.82 billion years ago, and it’s been expanding ever since. *Parker Solar Probe swoops past Venus at some 87 thousand KPH NASA's Parker Solar Probe has just undertaken its latest close...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 26 *Neutron star found in famous supernova Astronomers believe they may have confirmed the existence of a neutron star produced by supernova 1987A *The mystery of the Martian moons A new study claims the two Martian moons Phobos and Demos were created through a titanic collision in orbit around t...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 25 *Astronomers discover a space hurricane for the first time Astronomers have discovered what they’re calling a space hurricane high up in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. *Space Machines Company signs its first customer Space Machines Company has secured a contract for its new Optimus 1 orbital tr...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. *SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 24 *The most distant black hole ever seen Astronomers have set a new record for the most distant quasar ever found. The quasar dating back some 13.13 billion years is 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way, and is powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole – a monster more than 1...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 23 *High energy neutrinos traced to a star being ripped to pieces by a black hole Astronomers have traced high energy neutrinos erupting from a star being ripped to pieces by a black hole in another galaxy. *Juno spots meteor impact on Jupiter NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured a meteoroid slamm...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 22 *New observations of Cygnus X-1 change science’s understanding of Black Holes New observations of Cygnus X1 -- the first black hole ever detected -- have led astronomers to question what they really know about the Universe's most mysterious objects *Ancient relic points to a turning point in E...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 21 *Determining how Super Earths and Mini-Neptunes are made Astronomers have now found over four thousand exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. *How far are we from nuclear powered space transport A new report by America’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicin...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 20 *Sea salt discovered on the red planet Mars The European Space Agency has discovered sea salt high in the Martian atmosphere. *The Square Kilometre Array’s Engineering Development Array Work is starting to ramp up on the giant Square kilometre Array project to build the world’s largest telesco...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 19 *Touchdown! NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars After a seven-month 472 million kilometre journey, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has successfully touched down on the surface of the red planet. *A new model to predict galactic stellar production A new study suggests that massive galax...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 18 *New candidate planet discovered around Alpha Centauri A Astronomers may have discovered a planet in the habitable zone in our nearest neighbouring star system Alpha Centauri. *The solar system’s most distant planetary object confirmed Astronomers have set a new record for identifying the most...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 17 *The Milky Way warped following galactic collision A new study has confirmed what some people have long suspected – the Milky Way galaxy is warped. *New kind of magnetic explosion on Sun Scientists have detected a magnetic explosion on the Sun -- the likes of which has never been seen before....

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 16 *Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulphur dioxide A new study claims last year’s observations of phosphine in the clouds of Venus was actually sulphur-dioxide. *The mystery of the Jovian Trojans A new study claims Jupiter's Trojan asteroids may be stranger than thought....

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 15 *NASA gives up on the Mars Mole NASA has finally given up on efforts to get its Mars mole working. An exoplanetary system with real rhythm *Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system containing six exoplanets locked in orbits that act more like a rhythmic gravitational dance. *SpaceX s...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 14 *Exploring the depths of Titan's largest sea A new study has found that Kraken Mare -- the largest sea on the Saturnian Moon Titan – is at least 300 metres deep. *A new idea about the birth of the Solar System A new study proposes that the solar system was formed through a two step process – b...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 13 *Strange new clues about how stars are made Astronomers may have discovered some strange new clues about the processes involved in creating a star. *Understanding the secrets of neutron stars Scientists have found evidence of alpha particles at the surface of neutron-rich heavy nuclei – a disc...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 12 *The Earth is spinning faster. The Earth is spinning faster than it used to – in fact the planet’s fastest 28 days – based on records going back to 1960 have all occurred in the year 2020. *Hubble pinpoints supernova blast Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have determined the epicen...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 11 *How the asteroid Ryugu lost its water. As scientists continue to sift through the treasure-trove of rocks grains and dust brought back to Earth last month by the Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu – other researchers as going through the petabytes of remote sensing data collected during...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 10 *The most complete map of nearby brown dwarfs ever compiled. Astronomers have compiled the most complete three-dimensional map of brown dwarfs in our stellar neighbourhood. *Dark Energy survey releases its final data set The Dark Energy Survey has released its second and final data set contain...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 9 *New origins for sunquakes A new study has discovered that sunquakes originate from beneath the surface of the Sun – not above it as previously thought. *Oumuamua is not a hydrogen iceberg The idea that the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua could be a giant frozen hydrogen iceberg has been dashed...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 8 *The most detailed views ever of the surface of a brown dwarf Astronomers have discovered bands and stripes in the atmosphere of Luhman 16 B -- the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. *More delays to the Ariane 6 space program The European Space agency has pushed back the maiden flight of its new Ari...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 7 *The strange star produced by a white dwarf collision Astronomers have discovered a strange stellar object produced by the collision of a pair of white dwarfs – the corpses of dead Sun like stars. *The youngest magnetar ever seen Astronomers have discovered a new Magnetar – the youngest ever se...