#95 - May 2020 Part 1

<p><!-- wp:html --></p> <p><!-- /wp:html --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline">The Discussion</span>: The live recording of our monthly astronomy show to provide a bit of extra entertainment and interactivity while people are cooped up at home sitting out the coronavirus.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>We discuss a burgeoning <em>love</em>-hate relationship with Starlink, Jeni being the BBC’s go to person for Starlink and meteor showers, and Apollo 13 filling up Twitter timelines and giving us a bit of a respite from coronavirus</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline">The News</span>: Rounding up the astronomy news this month we have:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:list --></p> <ul> <li>A round up of astronomy-based April fools gags found in research papers</li> <li>Hubble marks its 30th birthday</li> <li>Fomalhaut b might not be a planet after all</li> <li>Centaurs might well be asteroids from other star systems</li> <li>And Pluto looks to have had a ‘hot start’</li> </ul> <p><!-- /wp:list --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Main News story: Earth 2.0 found in old ignored data.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline">The Sky Guide</span>: This month we’re taking a look at the constellation of Ursa Major 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 May.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline">Guide to the Electromagnetic Spectrum</span>: In this series we take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum, what, it is, what is shows us and why it’s so important to astronomers. This month we explain the sub-millimetre and far infrared part of the spectrum and its relevance to astronomy.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p>