Hide and Seek - The Faintest Planet Ever Imaged, Pluto's Landslides & Starlink's 355,000 Dodges

Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesJuly 16, 202600:19:24

Hide and Seek - The Faintest Planet Ever Imaged, Pluto's Landslides & Starlink's 355,000 Dodges

Astronomers have finally caught Beta Pictoris d — the faintest exoplanet ever directly imaged from Earth — after it hid in plain sight in telescope archives for more than a decade. Anna and Avery break down the discovery, plus the completion of the sharpest all-sky radio survey ever made (VLASS), JWST catching a supermassive black hole mid-meal in the Centaurus Cluster, the first landslides ever found on Pluto, Charon's dramatic spin-down written in its mountains, and the new FCC filing showing Starlink satellites dodged potential collisions over 355,000 times in a year.
CHAPTERS:
• 00:00 Intro
• 01:30 Beta Pictoris d — faintest exoplanet ever imaged
• 05:30 VLASS: the sharpest radio map of the sky is complete
• 08:45 JWST reveals how black holes feed themselves
• 12:15 Pluto has landslides
• 15:00 Charon's slowing spin
• 17:45 Starlink's 355,000 collision dodges
• 20:45 Southern Hemisphere skywatch + Starship reminder
• 22:30 Outro
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