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JWST 1st Image incoming, NASA Grows Plants in Lunar Soil, and EHT Captures Black Hole at center of our galaxy

JWST 1st Image incoming, NASA Grows Plants in Lunar Soil, and EHT Captures Black Hole at center of our galaxy

FromToday In Space


JWST 1st Image incoming, NASA Grows Plants in Lunar Soil, and EHT Captures Black Hole at center of our galaxy

FromToday In Space

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode we have alot of space & science to cover! There were so many exciting things that happened in May/June that we are only just catching up. Lot's of 1sts going on lately: 1. Blue Origin's NS21 mission sends the 1st Mexican-born woman to the Edge of Space 2. NASA grows plants in Lunar Regolith for the 1st time. The soil was saved from the Apollo-era missions that brought back moon soil for us to test! 3. The EHT team captures the 1st image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Only the 2nd image EVER taken of a black hole 4. JWST plans to release the first images on July 12th! We discuss an event that happened on May23 & May25 to JWST. We share another Twitter Spaces clip where we got to ask the team about how the data JWST will take is different from Hubble. All this and more on this clip from the podcast! Follow us on social: - @todayinspacepod on instragram & twitter - @todayinspace on TikTok - /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook How to Support the podcast: Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop ag3dprinting.etsy.com Donate at todayinspace.net Share the podcast with friends & family! https://www.11alive.com/article/news/national/first-ever-mexican-born-woman-in-space-katya-echazarreta/285-a373d344-6783-4ed4-8a3f-154d817b5960 https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-21-mission-announcement/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/biological-physical/scientists-grow-plants-in-soil-from-the-moon https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/plants-can-grow-in-lunar-soil-but-very-poorly/ https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_First_Sgr_A_Results https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-suffers-micrometeoroid-impacts    
Released:
Jun 10, 2022
Format:
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!