#105 - March 2021 Part 1

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Discussion</span>:</p> <ul> <li>Paul becomes the new Vice President of <a href= "https://www.wycombeastro.org/latestnews/4spz93m8yexkzkd5xb4njz6fk4mdtm"> Wycombe Astronomical Society</a></li> <li>Jen gets a date for her PhD viva</li> <li>Jen promoting NASA’s Perseverance rover on the BBC</li> <li>Get ready for <a href="https://www.teentech.com/live/">Teentech Live</a> on 5th March</li> <li>Emails from listeners highlighting the good and bad in Awesome Astronomy</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The News</span>: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have:</p> <ul> <li>The Cygnus X-1 black hole must be much bigger than we thought</li> <li>A single neutrino detection reveals a super-supermassive blackhole</li> <li>Was the impact that killed the dinosaurs an asteroid or comet?</li> <li>Earth’s regular magnetic pole reversals may be catastrophic to life</li> </ul> <p>Main News story: A return to the mythical Planet 9 and a new paper casting further doubt on the evidence in favour of an undiscovered massive object in the outer solar system.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Sky Guide</span>: This month we’re taking a look at the constellation of Gemini with a guide to its history, how to find it, a couple of deep sky objects and a round-up of the solar system views on offer in March.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Q&A</span>: <em>Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was some sort of collective effort to digitise and share the historic astronomical records held in observatories’ glass plates?</em> From our good friend Tony Horton in the UK.</p>