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Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
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Time's Tipping Point: The End of Leap Seconds and a Lunar Clock Revolution
Show notes Time Lets Go of the Sky On 15 October 2026 the 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles adopted Resolution 5: UTC becomes continuous on 20 May 2027, ending leap seconds...
Stellar Breakthroughs: The Discovery of Deuterated Methanol and the First Green Star
Show notes Episode 206 opens with the first results from ALMA's COMPASS survey: the first detection anywhere in interstellar space of fully deuterated methanol, and methanol masers turning up around m...
Martian Mystery: Unveiling the Secrets of Arsia Mons' Elusive Clouds
Show notes A cloud on Mars that forms only if textbook-theoretical physics really happens; Webb maps a hot Jupiter's edge angle by angle; multi-planet systems turn out to come in two families tied to ...
Cosmic Revelations: Artemis 2's Historic Observations and the Case of Hypernovae
Show notes Six months after Artemis II swung around the far side of the Moon, NASA has published what the crew saw, said and sketched — including five faint impact flashes spotted during a 54-minute e...
HERA's Grand Maneuver: Braking for Didymos and the Future of Planetary Defence
Show notes Hera Hits the Brakes ESA's Hera spotted its target asteroid for the first time last week and fires its first braking burn on Thursday — 93 minutes of thrust to start stopping at Didymos and...
Cloudy with a Chance of Water: The Mysteries of WISE 0855 Unveiled
The coldest brown dwarf we know has weather. JWST watched water clouds thicken and thin on WISE 0855, a sunless world seven and a half light-years away — plus a star slowly eating a brown dwarf, ten m...