Today on Astronomy Daily: ESA's Euclid telescope uncovers 31 quasars from the universe's first billion years, including the two most distant ever observed. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is hoisted onto its launch platform at Kennedy Space Center ahead of its August 30 launch. China reveals detailed plans for a space-based network to watch the Sun's blind spot for incoming asteroids. JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft reveals asteroid Torifune is a two-lobed “snowman” contact binary. NASA's tiny GRITSS CubeSat launches to help measure Earth itself with millimetre precision. And we close with tonight's Moon-free skywatching window and Venus's ongoing pairing with Regulus.
Chapters
• 00:00 Intro
• 01:30 Euclid's 31 Ancient Quasars
• 05:00 Roman Space Telescope Milestone
• 08:00 China's Asteroid Early-Warning Network
• 11:30 Hayabusa2 & the Snowman Asteroid
• 15:00 GRITSS CubeSat Launch
• 18:00 Tonight's Skywatching Tip
• 20:30 Outro
