SPACE MECHANIC
Six stories from the frontier of space and astronomy — including a spacecraft with arms built to keep other satellites alive, a discarded rocket stage two weeks from carving a new crater on the Moon, the first binary star system where both stars exploded, the deepest radio map ever made of a galaxy cluster, and an ancient bombardment that may have helped freeze the Earth.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold open
01:20 — The space mechanic: Northrop Grumman's MRV-MEP launches
05:30 — UPDATE: The Falcon 9 stage that hits the Moon on 5 August
09:25 — Sibling supernovae: two stars that died in sequence
13:10 — First magnetic map of a galaxy cluster (Abell 2255)
16:30 — The Eulalia breakup and the 800-million-year bombardment
20:20 — Skywatch: both hemispheres, plus the 12 August eclipse
24:25 — Sign-off
LINKS
Website: https://astronomydaily.io
Socials: @AstroDailyPod
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