SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 10 *Lessons from the dark energy survey Astronomers taking part in the recent release of data from the Dark Energy survey say the findings closely follow existing predictions of the properties of dark energy but still can’t answer if it’s changing over time. *Titan’s “magic islands” finally explained A new study claims ethane, methane and other o...

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 9 *The Dark Energy Survey’s unique insights into the expansion of the universe In 1998, astrophysicists discovered that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. They attributed this to a mysterious force called dark energy *Europe’s Einstein Probe lifts off on a mission to monitor the X-ray skies The European Space Agency, the Max...

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 8 *How the mysterious Centaurs gain their comet-like characteristics Close encounter with the gas giant’s Jupiter and Saturn is causing a group of frozen outer solar system asteroid like worlds to evolve comet like features. *Discovering a fast radio burst in just four days Back in 2017 a CSIRO telescope has found its first ‘fast radio burst’ fro...

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The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 5 *Monstrous X5 solar flare launched on New Year's Eve The Sun celebrated the completion of Earth’s latest orbit by blasting out a spectacular X-5 class solar flare dwarfing even Sydney’s new year’s eve fireworks display. *X-37B space shuttle launches aboard Falcon Heavy SpaceX has successfully launched the US Space Force-52 mission carrying an X...

The Space News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 4 *Astronomers study the earliest Milky Way type galaxy ever seen A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand the origins of our own Milky Way. *What lies in the exotic heart of a neutron star New theoretical analysis is showing further support for the hypothesis that the cores of neutron stars are composed of de...

SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 3 *The short life of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies A new study warns that most small satellite galaxies are destroyed soon after they enter the Milky Way’s galactic halo. *Japan lunar lander enters lunar orbit Japan's new lunar lander has entered orbit around the Moon and will undertake a landing attempt with in the next few weeks. *First light for NASA’s new compa...

**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 stellar motion and the interstellar medium, challeng...

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 brightest radio wave sources in the Universe. *A close encounter with the volcanic world of Io NASA’s Ju...

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 to flight status successfully launching an electron rocket from its Mahia Peninsula spac...

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 asteroid 319 Leona passed in front of bright star Betelgeuse....

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 takes another look at the ringed planet Uranus NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has again trained its sigh...

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 planet that is far too massive for its host star. The finding reported in th...

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 EvolutioN – or MAVEN spacecraft observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance...

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 NASA’s Webb Space Telescope have helped astronomers unlock secrets of how infant galaxies starte...

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 from cooling volcanic lava flows. Zhurong rover detected at l...

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 Radiation Explorer mission – EarthCARE is now slated to launch in May next year o...

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 techniques giving contradictory values and different results. *The satellite discovered by the Lucy...

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 cosmic ray ever recorded and the source is still a mystery. *Pinpointing...

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 rock which generates this month’s annual Geminid’s meteor shower has puzzled...

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 of 1.8. NASA’s Fermi Mission nets 300 gamma-ray pulsars … and counting A new catalogue shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...

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 mysteries in astronomy -- why galaxies in our neighbourhood hang out with their own kind. *NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Sets Stage...

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 each other in triple star systems. *NASA tests its new deep space laser communica...

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 one of their secrets Astronomers have identified the heavy element telluriu...