SpaceTime with Stuart Gary

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 6 *What's new for 2021 2021 will be another exciting year in space with the maiden flights of at least three new spacecraft and NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover getting ready to land in the red planet’s Jezero Crater, on February 18 *Virgin Galactic mission abort Virgin Galactic forced to cut...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 5 *How the solar wind has stripped away the Martian atmosphere Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. *Giant X-ray bubbles detected in galactic halo Astr...

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 4 *The atmosphere of a white dwarf shows Earth’s ultimate fate Astronomers studying the atmosphere of a nearby stellar corpse called a white dwarf -- have been given a glimpse of the ultimate fate of planet Earth. *New questions about the origins of heavy elements New questions are being raised...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 3 *Strange signal detected from Proxima Centauri Scientists at SETI the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence are trying to understand a strange signal which was detected by the Parkes Radio Telescope originating in the Proxima Centauri star system. *Israel’s ambitious new plans for a moon mi...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 2 *Breakthrough in measuring the strong nuclear force Scientists have made the first high precision measurements of the forces acting between protons and exotic subatomic particles called hyperons which contain strange quarks. *Mystery surrounds a dark storm on Neptune Astronomers are trying to u...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 1 *Most distant galaxy ever seen Astronomers have set a new record for observing the most distant galaxy ever seen. *Origin of Moon’s magnetic crust A new study has supported the idea that the Moon’s remnant crustal magnetism was caused by an ancient molten iron lunar core generating a geomagneti...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 139 *New solar cycle could be one of the strongest on record In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research are predicting that the new solar cycle 25 could be one of the strongest since record-keeping began. *Solar eclip...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 138 *Can Modified Newtonian Physics fix Dark Matter What if Scientists have got dark matter all wrong? *NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery Twenty-five years ago, NASA sent its Galileo spacecraft into the atmosphere of the solar system’s largest planet Jupiter. But the...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 137 *Astronomers witness a nearby star being eaten by a black hole Astronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole a million times the mass of the Sun. *Scientists begin to study the asteroid samples from Ryugu Scientists say the s...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 136 *A Total Solar Eclipse Over South America The good citizenry of Chile and Argentina have experienced a total solar eclipse. *The space station gets a new air lock A new Air lock has arrived aboard the International Space Station. The equipment was flown up on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 135 *New evidence of how dark matter behaves Astronomers have discovered new characteristics about mysterious dark matter after watching a galaxy being eaten by another bigger galaxy. *New discoveries about how planetary nebulae are made Astronomers have discovered that the mesmerising spiral str...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 134 *Hayabusa2 lands at Woomera The first pristine subsurface samples of an asteroid have been safely returned to Earth with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 re-entry capsule parachuting down onto the Woomera Rocket range in outback South Australia. *Hints of new physics in pola...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 133 *The star-making enough dust to build an Earth-sized planet every year Astronomers have discovered a Wolf-Rayet star system producing enough material to make a planet the size of Earth every year. *The threat of Apophis refuses to go away A new threat to the Earth is being posed by the astero...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 132 *Discovery of a likely source for the famous Wow signal A new study may have finally narrowed down the likely source of the famous wow signal. *A Bose-Einstein Condensate created in Earth orbit NASA says its Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station is opening new windows on some o...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 131 *Planet Earth closer to the supermassive black hole than previously thought A new study claims the Earth is some two thousand light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy than previously thought. *Ancient megafloods on Mars A new study suggests gigan...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 130 *The Large Magellanic Cloud’s violent encounter with the Milky Way A new study has found that a neighbouring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud is twisting and deforming the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy. *Washington launches a new top secret spy satellite The United launch Alliance has...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 129 *Fossil galaxy hidden in the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a fossil galaxy hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way galaxy. *New study claims Venus hasn’t lost its water to space A new study suggests that despite being the hottest planet in the solar system Venus has lost little of i...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 128 *A new look at the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy Some hypotheses on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behaviour of some of its oldest stars. *Earth mini moon CD3 is a natural body and not space junk Astronomers using data collected with the 4...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 127 *New mission to study the rock comet Phaethon Germany and Japan are developing a new mission to study the strange asteroid 3200 Phaethon. *Europa’s water plumes could originate in its crust A new study suggests water plumes erupting from Jupiter's ice moon Europa might originate in the frozen...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 126 *Measuring the rotation of the Milky Way’s central black hole Astronomers have for the first time measured the rotational spin of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. *The Jovian ice moon Europa glows in the dark Scientists have discovered that the Jovian ice moo...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 125 *Brightest kilonova ever seen Astronomers have detected the brightest kilonova event ever seen unleashing more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 12-billion-year lifetime. *A new way of seeing invisible dark matter Astronomers have found a new way to estimate th...

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 124 *A new look at the early life of Jupiter and Saturn A new study has narrowed down the likely original orbits of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. *Why is the Moon rusting? Scientists think they may have solved one of the Moon’s little mysteries – how an airless bone-dry world can rust? *Stud...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 123 *Virgin plans its first New Mexico space launch this month Virgin Galactic plans to undertake its first manned space flight from its new New Mexico spaceport within the next few weeks. *Rocket lab launches its fifth flight this year There’s still no launch date for Rocket labs first Electron flight from its new Wallops Island Launch complex on the V...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 122 *More evidence linking Magnetars to mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Astronomers have identified a sudden and violent outburst from a type of neutron star called a magnetar, as the likely source for those mysterious events known as Fast Radio Bursts. *New data release helps explain the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy Astronomers have just released GAL...

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 121 *Ancient galactic mystery deepens A new study of distant galaxies in the very early universe has found that they were already far more massive and mature than previously thought. *Pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds discovered in fireball meteorite Scientists have discovered pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds in samples recovered fr...