Here at Trekzone we podcast from our home studio, so the government efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus means we have more time to bring you awesome content throughout these very unusual and unique times.

Today, Dr Brad Tucker is back for our regular Talkin’ Science show – where we highlight the stories of the week and dive into them in the proceeding days. Brad and Matt chat about the effects of the Coronavirus quarantine plus a newly discovered star shaped like a teardrop. An exoplanet has been discovered which is tidally locked to it’s star – so one side is always raining molten iron while the dark side has iron in the atmosphere. And finally Brad and Matt touch on the joint European and Russian Rosalind Franklin Martian rover which has had it’s launch delayed until 2022…

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