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December news stories and round up the year's biggest stories with JWST's 2nd Birthday, the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X Ray observatory, the auroras we have had and Solar Maximum. We have also had comets, eclipses, and some amazing discoveries on Mars. We recap all the successful and failed moon landings, the Starship launches, booster catches and the Boeing Starliner saga. We've also had ES...

In this month's episode we discuss, anti-cyclonic gloom, our first close up image of a star outside the Milky Way, zebra Pulsars, hairy black holes, images of Uranus and oceans on Miranda. The 100th woman in space, how to make emergency calls on the Moon, the Hera Mission, wooden satellites and cracks in the ISS.

We take a look at Comet A3 Tsuchinshan ATLAS (see transcript for images), 4 aurora storms in one night, was solar wind the cause of water on Earth and leave records in tree rings? Martian meteorites and new rock found on Mars adding to evidence of water. In space news West Surrey Girl Guiding make contact with the ISS, the first ever catch of a rocket booster by chopstick arms, Europa Clipper laun...

Graham Laycock with Rachel Dutton FRAS from the Guildford Astronomical Society. News of September's partial lunar eclipse, does Betelguese have a binary companion, will Earth have a new moon, did Mars have a 3rd moon, the starliner updates with ghostly pings and it's return to Earth and the Polaris Dawn mission complete with the first commercial spacewalk and a violin performance in space.

The monthly programme with Graham Laycock introducing Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In this month's episode we cover: the sun's new cycle has already begun, diamonds on Mercury, Water on Mars, JUICE flies by the Earth and the full story of the Boeing Starliner so far.

In this month's edition Rachel Dutton covers: the Penguin Galaxy celebrating the 2nd anniversary of JWST, an intermediate mass black hole candidate, two Mars rovers finding evidence for an environment with potential to host life, re-defining a planet, a Starliner update, China lunar sample return, exploring moon caves and, destruction of the ISS.

The monthly programme with Graham Laycock introducing Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. This month we cover Popcorn like rocks and ice on Mars, the slowest pulsars we've found, the lunar standstill at Stonehenge, is the Boeing Starliner stuck, Starship 4th launch, ISS emergency broadcast, China's landing on the far side of the moon.

In Astronomy news: “Spiders” and methane on Mars, Perseverance Rover’s first 1000 days, the Euclid telescope’s first science data release, an early black hole merger, aurora under the sea, fireballs and meteors, Hubble discovers triplet protostars, Europa’s stripes tell us more about it’s outer structure and more about how Uranus and Neptune formed. In space news: the Artemis mission prepara...

A specila edition with Graham Laycock talking to Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society about the Aurora Borealis otherwise known as the Norther Lights currently being seen in Surrey, with a guide to how best to see them.

In astronomy news: Mercury has a tail, how Pluto got its heart, Venus may be losing more of its atmosphere, Nova in T Corona Borealis, a new black hole image, a new blackhole discovered and you can now see what is happening for Hubble and JWST live. In space news: part of the ISS crashes into a Floridian house, ESA astronaut graduation for “the Hoppers”, will Tim Peake be going back to space...

In astronomy news: do protoplanets form like smarties, the brightest object ever discovered, the Event Horizon Telescope zooms in on a jet around a blackhole, gravastars as an alternative to blackholes, Euclid has started it’s science mission, images of Jupiter’s moon IO, methane on dwarf planets, Saturn’s death star moon Mimas may have a subsurface ocean, asteroids with water and planets in the O...

In astronomy news: Betelguese is boiling, oceans in the Orion Nebula, a newly formed star system having a spring clean, evidence of a neutron star forming, a polluted white dwarf showing a potential end to a solar system, Martian tectonics and a newly discovered volcano, is Europa producing oxygen and a possible new meteor shower. In space news: NASA cuts and the impact on the space and astronomy...

In astronomy news: JWST has completed its set of giant planet images, Voyager images being reprocessed gives Neptune a makeover, Betelguese occulted by an asteroid, a brown dwarf with an aurora, giant ring and arc of galaxies, planet with a tail, a galaxy without stars. In space news: Ingenuity’s last flight, Vulcan Centaur launch, JAXA SLIM mission to the moon, the Osiris Rex sample return missio...

In our Boxing Day episode, we are doing an introduction to astronomy, what you need to get started and understanding some of the language from first quarter moon, to conjunctions, so you can understand astronomy forecasts.

We recap some of the main astronomy and space stories from 2023 including for astronomy the Euclid telescope’s first light, the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) “firsts”, Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), as asteroid with rings, the supernova in M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy), Jupiter atmospheric discoveries, Betelguese may go supernova, and planets in the Orion Nebula. Our space recap covers: SpaceX Starsh...

Dave Jemitus introduces John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society for a review of developments in space during 2022 and a look forward to developments planned for 2023.

Graham Laycock and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society with a special edition for an update on the pictures coming back from the James Webb telescope, the Mars Rover being replaced and Shaun the Sheep going to theh moon plus the chance to hear again a special interview John did in 2017 with Dr. Helen Sharman OBE FRSC, Britain’s first astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir spa...

The last in the pestent series with Graham Laycock and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society about everything astronomy and spaceflight including Mars exploration with Perseverance and Curiosity, Gaia 3rd data drop, JWST hit by a meteor, NASA SLS rocket test, Space X news, Constellation of the month, what's up in the July night sky and forthcoming meetings.

Graham Laycock and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society about everything astronomy and spaceflight including the Boeing Starliner capsule, Chines Space Station, Mars - Insight's Black Hole imaged, Space X, NASA SLS rocket problems, James Webb is perfect, Blue Origin's 5th flight, ESA Mars Rover, Orbex launch from Scotland, Space Force and the constellation of the month and waht's up i...

Dave Jemitus and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society about everything astronomy and spaceflight including Axiom private ISS mission, Crew-4, Dream Chaser, Amazon and SpaceX Internet satellites, Mars/Phobos eclipse, Perseverance photos, Ingenuity, Blue Origin, China's cosmonauts, NASA SLS, James Webb, Osiris Rex, constellation of the month and what to look for in the night sky in May.

Dave Jemitus and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society about everything astronomy and spaceflight including Ukraine and the ISS, Exomars,One Web, James Webb, Space X, Solar Orbiter and Hubble's interacting galaxies, plus constellation of the month, meetings at local astronomy societies and what to see in the night sky for the coming month.

Dave Jemitus and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society about everything astronomy and spaceflight including the impact on spaceflight of the war in Ukraine, ExoMars, One Web, Russian rocket engines, James Webb, Hubble's interacting galaxies, Solar Orbiter, Space X and much more, plus constellation of the month, meetings at local astronomy societies and what to see in the night sky for...

Graham Laycock and John Axtell of the Guildford Astronomical Society about everything astronomy and spaceflight including the James Webb telescope, Virgin Orbit, Earth’s new asteroid companion and new radio telescope results and more, plus constellation of the month and what's up in the night sky for February.

Everything astronomy and space flight with John Axtell and Dave Jemitus, including The James Webb telescope, Perseverance and Curiosity on Mars, the Parker solar probe, Japanese billionaire at the ISS, New Shephard, giant exo-planet and Space X sets more records and more plus constellation of the month and what's up in the night sky for January.

Everything astronomy and space flight with John and Dave, including DART asteroid mission, Russian ASAT test, Hubble, Shepherd's daughter, De Vries, private launcher ASTRA, more delayed launches, constellation of the month and what's up in the night sky for December.