We remember the Father of Star Trek who has passed away. Plus we have details on new comics to be released in February, Jack’s back on Doctor Who and your first look at the new Trekzone podcasts kicking off January 1.
Scientists now estimate that half of all sun-like stars have Earth-like planets, now we hope they’ve had similar evolutionary paths and have complex life on them. Lunar’s twin – astronomers now believe an asteroid hiding behind Mars and first found more than 20 years ago, is a long lost relative of our moon. And snagging a magnetar, a super dense neutron star, during a recent fast radio burst… how they did it may surprise you.
We’re not slowing down before Christmas, which is only six weeks away! Instead, we’re going to get you in that festive mood with more of the Trekzone content you love. Continuing the week with the start of our second playthrough – #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration A Final Unity. This one is a lot of fun, come with us on the journey.
We’re diving into the minutiae of Star Trek: Discovery on this edition of Trekzone’s The News.
In the news this week, Jonathan Frakes is interviewed by Trekmovie and provides some details on Strange New Worlds, Discovery’s third season and a musical Short Trek? Plus info on Trek IV and Destination Star Trek London.
A few weeks ago, Lee joined us for a chat about Lower Decks, the latest series in the Star Trek franchise. He wasn’t a massive fan of the characters and really wanted to see some changes. Coincidentally, those changes were coming and in the weeks proceeding our episodes the show turned a corner for him.
As the Parkes Radio Telescope joins the national heritage list, SpaceX’s Starship successfully flies and supernova ‘1987A’ gives away a fascinating secret.
SpaceX has backed up their Crew Dragon success with the first flight of Starship… it flew, and landed, at their testing range in Texas.
Astronomers use a total lunar eclipse to study the ozone, and find exoplanets. The 1987 supernova may have brought the universe a neutron star and Starship finally soars, and lands, in another successful test flight for SpaceX.
The FCC in the US has greenlit Amazon’s ambitious plans to compete with Starlink for global satellite internet dominance. The Jeff Bezos led company has a leg up on Elon Musk’s project though, given Amazon Web Services serve much of the internet backbone already, and there are ground based stations worldwide.
Astronomers long thought the earliest stars had all died out, and the universe was on it’s third generation of pinpoints of light in the night sky. However, the Phoenix cluster has thrown those theories out the window… as it’s jam packed with “first generation” stars.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made a remarkable discovery while studying the baby star “AU Mic” – it has an exoplanet about the same distance as Neptune is from our star.
At the beginning of the solar system Pluto may have been bombarded by rocky material in much the same way as the inner planets. That means, according to researchers, there may be an ocean locked away under the surface…
Nick Cook is helping us continue an impromptu dive into our oft-recurring sub-series of our podcast.. Fan Films Done Right.
SpaceX’s Starlink has put the call out for members of the public to test their network but the catch is only folks in the far northern hemisphere have access, but the speeds potentially on offer are astronomical..
New research indicates that there may be up to 36 intelligent civilisations in the Milky Way right now, as Starlink opens its doors for initial trials and some Aussies were part of a world record attempt to measure light pollution.
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