The Skyentists
The Skyentists
Angel Lopez-Sanchez & Kirsten Banks
030 - Solar Circumnavigation 2020
43 minutes Posted Jan 2, 2020 at 12:34 am.
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Happy New Year! In this episode our Skyentists, astronomers Kirsten Banks and Ángel López-Sánchez, provide a summary of the main celestial events during 2020... including some infamous "Supermoons", lunar and solar eclipses, planets ephemeris, and meteor showers. For "Space News" Kirsten updates about the very first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov and Ángel discuss the first results of the GALACTICNUCLEUS survey that studies the building-up of the Milky Way obtaining deep infrared images of the central regions of our Galaxy using the Very Large Telescope. We have feedback (yeah!) and we also do some recommendations of astronomy webpages to follow: the Astrophiz podcast (https://astrophiz.com) by Brendan O'Brien (@Astrophiz) and SpaceAustralia.com (https://spaceaustralia.com) founded by our friend astrophysicist Rami Mandow (@CosmicRami). For "What's Up!" we recommend to have a look to beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 in Eridanus.