Today on Astronomy Daily: the four-year cosmic mystery of JWST's "little red dots" has finally been solved — and the answer is stranger than anyone expected. Plus, Astrobotic publicly unveiled its Griffin-1 Moon lander yesterday, and it's been called "the first infrastructure-class lander" headed for the lunar surface. Then — a robotic spacecraft is racing to save a 22-year-old NASA observatory from falling out of the sky. A SpaceX Dragon is heading home from the ISS right now carrying space-grown stem cells and bioprinted tissue. There's a beautiful triple-planet Moon conjunction in tonight's western sky. And a space weather update for southern aurora watchers.
That's a lot of space. Let's dig in.
In This Episode:
00:00 — Intro
02:00 — JWST solves the Little Red Dots mystery
10:00 — Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander
17:00 — Robotic rescue: saving NASA's Swift Observatory
24:00 — SpaceX Dragon heads home with space medicine cargo
29:00 — Tonight's sky: Moon meets Venus, Jupiter & Mercury
34:00 — Space weather: CME glancing blow update
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