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Blue Origin NS-19, Parker Solar Probe 'touches' the Sun, and JWST launches Xmas Eve! TIS262

Blue Origin NS-19, Parker Solar Probe 'touches' the Sun, and JWST launches Xmas Eve! TIS262

FromToday In Space


Blue Origin NS-19, Parker Solar Probe 'touches' the Sun, and JWST launches Xmas Eve! TIS262

FromToday In Space

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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In this episode we cover the latest in all-things space since our last episode on Dec 9th. - Blue Origin launched the 'Original Six' to the edge of space and back landing safely in West Texas.  - The Parker Solar Probe 'touched' the sun and it's corona for the first time, and some recent research linking solar wind and asteroid regolith with creating water which may explain the Earth's water 'budget'. One thing's for sure, our Sun is a main reason we have life as stable as we have it on Earth. To think it may also be 'wetting' the solar systems airless bodies is WILD - Jame Webb Space Telescope launches on Christmas Eve, December 24th at 7:20AM EST. We discuss what JWST will do to expand our understanding of the universe and our existence. Where we come from.  Solar wind research: https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6271594 Solar Wind Research paper abstract: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01487-w https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/12/15/parker-solar-probe-touches-the-sun/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin_NS-19#cite_note-6 https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1472199689403523077?s=20   Hope you are doing well and hanging in there during the holidays. Live Long and prosper...and keep spreading love & spreading science.  Alex G. Orphanos
Released:
Dec 20, 2021
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Podcast episode

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The award-winning space science podcast about all things space! Hosted by Alex G. Orphanos, science communicator, maker, and aerospace engineer. Our mission: to spread love and spread science!