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China’s Big Week as we Celebrate 45 Years Since the Apollo-Soyuz Docking

We’ve covered it all on this week’s editions of Talkin’ Science, and it’s time to wrap them all up with this uncut edition, produced live…

Saturday, July 18 2020

Planetary Opposition A Sight to Behold

The night time sky is turning on a treat for amateur astronomers with Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all at opposition – find out exactly what that means, and how you can see it, with today’s Talkin’ Science Story of the Week..

Friday, July 17 2020

NASA’s Directives to Prevent Space Contamination

It’s a real concern in both directions of travel as we set our minds to further missions to Mars and the Artemis program, space contamination could spell disaster not only for what lies preserved on the worlds of our solar system, but what these sample return missions (and crewed return missions) can bring back to Earth.

Thursday, July 16 2020

China’s Big Week

China’s space program has wrapped a busy week, launching three satellites into orbit from two launches. Dr Brad has the details in this Talkin’ Science Story of the Week.

Wednesday, July 15 2020

China’s Big Week as Planetary Opposition Inspires Amateur Astronomers : Talkin’ Science

As China launches three satellites in two weeks, NASA issues directives to manage space contamination and planetary opposition provides a treat for amateur astronomers. It’s Talkin’ Science from Trekzone!

Tuesday, July 14 2020

Lower Decks Trailer Drops

CBS All Access has dropped our first look at Star Trek: Lower Decks – the animated series from Rick & Morty creator Mike McMahan.

Monday, July 13 2020

Aussie Space Month : Designing the Next Gen Spacesuit

Chief Engineer James Waldie is our guest today as part of Aussie Space Month here at Trekzone, with thanks to SpaceAustralia.com.

Monday, July 13 2020

LIVE: Hungry Black Holes, Exomoons and Rocketlabs Failure to Launch

We’re back live for another edition of Talkin’ Science uncut. From hungry black holes to the loss of 7 satellites, we’ve got this week’s science and space news headlines.

Saturday, July 11 2020

Rocketlabs Stumbles At The Final Step

Over the weekend Rocketlabs – the US company aiming to provide fast and reliable access to space – had another failure to launch, which resulted in the loss of all seven satellites.

Friday, July 10 2020

6 More Exomoons Discovered

Astronomers studying data from the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered moons orbiting exoplanets. They’re even harder to find because of their size, but these candidates are about 200 to 3,000 light years away.

Thursday, July 9 2020

A Hungry, Hungry Black Hole

Astronomers have made an astonishing discovery while spotting the largest black hole in the known universe. It’s thirty four billion times the mass of our star… and consumes the equivilant of our sun a day.

Wednesday, July 8 2020

A Hungry Black Hole as Rocketlabs Fails To Launch

Astronomers are being kept busy by new research into black holes and exomoons as Rocketlabs – the US based company aiming to provide fast and reliable access to space – fails to launch again.

Tuesday, July 7 2020

Adelaide’s Own Mission Control : Aussie Space Month

It’s Aussie Space Month all July (2020) here on Trekzone, and we’re kicking things off with Dr Jason Held having A Trekzone Conversation about his companies government contract to build our own mission control centre.

Monday, July 6 2020

Pluto’s Ocean, Black Hole Discoveries and the Fragrance of Space : Talkin’ Science UNCUT

It’s time to produce live the uncut edition of Talkin’ Science. Catch up on our stories including Pluto’s potential ‘hot start’, some impressive black hole discoveries and the exoplanet spotted around baby star “AU Mic.”

Saturday, July 4 2020

An Exoplanet Orbiting A Baby Star

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.

Friday, July 3 2020

Black Hole Discoveries

While LIGO and Virgo are detecting gravitational waves of a black hole potentially swallowing a tiny neighbouring object, astronomers have spotted the biggest quasar way out in the depths of the early universe.

Thursday, July 2 2020

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