XRISM and Matter's Final Screams
Pythagorean Astronomy
English - February 13, 2024 10:34 - 49 minutes - 63.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNatural Sciences Science space astronomy news science research Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This month Edward and Chris talk the recent lunar missions - Astrobotic's Peregrine and Japan's SLIM. There's also the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on what turned out post-recording to be it's final flight! Further afield we talk mega-structures on a galactic scale and asteroids crashing to Earth.
January also saw the first light from the XRISM satellite, the latest X-ray satellite. We hear from Prof Chris Done (University of Durham and University of Tokyo) about the mission and the future of x-ray astronomy.