Today on Astronomy Daily, Anna and Avery cover six stories that prove the cosmos never takes a day off. NASA's Van Allen Probe A — a 1,300-pound satellite that spent seven years studying Earth's radiation belts — is expected to reenter the atmosphere TODAY. Over the weekend, a spectacular fireball lit up the skies of western Europe before a meteorite punched clean through the roof of a house in Koblenz, Germany. Congress has moved to extend the International Space Station's life by two years to 2032 to keep America ahead in the space race. ALMA has released the largest image it has ever produced — a sweeping portrait of the Milky Way's chaotic core. Astronomers have mapped a hidden 'sea of light' from the universe's most active star-forming era. And Jupiter is pulling a disappearing trick in tonight's sky.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Introduction
01:30 — Van Allen Probe A Falls to Earth Today
05:00 — Meteorite Punches Through German Roof
08:30 — Congress Extends ISS to 2032
12:00 — ALMA's Record-Breaking Milky Way Image
15:30 — Mapping the Early Universe's Hidden 'Sea of Light'
18:30 — Jupiter's Retrograde Motion Tonight
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