#106 - April 2021 Part 1

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Discussion</span>:</p> <ul> <li>Jen finally becomes Dr Jen – bow down pitiful Earthlings!</li> <li>Binocular astronomy</li> <li>Get the book Vera Rubin - A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton with 25% off by emailing cs-books@wiley.com, and quoting the discount code H0350 (mentioning Awesome Astronomy probably wouldn’t go amiss too)</li> <li>Emails from listeners correcting a possible error and posing a teasing question about US refractors.</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The News</span>: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have:</p> <ul> <li>UCL researchers unravel the mystery of the Antikythera mechanism</li> <li>The Event Horizon Telescope improves the image of a supermassive black hole by revealing its magnetic fields</li> <li>Confirming the existence of the furthest major solar system object</li> <li>An exoplanet that lost its atmosphere and then gained another one!</li> </ul> <p>Main News story: CERN’s LHC spots a quirky quark that hints at a big anomaly in the Standard Model of Physics</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Sky Guide</span>: This month we’re taking a look at the constellation of Coma Bereneces 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 April.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Q&A</span>: <em>You mentioned recently that a comet was a long period comet? What does this mean? How do we know if a comet is a long period comet?</em> From our good friend Arliss Evans in Texas, USA.</p>