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00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 Anna: Rockets on two continents, the
00:00:03 --> 00:00:05 most detailed look ever at a jet
00:00:06 --> 00:00:08 screaming out of the first black hole
00:00:08 --> 00:00:11 humanity ever photographed, and a
00:00:11 --> 00:00:14 planet where the rain is made of rubies
00:00:14 --> 00:00:16 and sapphires. It is Wednesday
00:00:16 --> 00:00:18 17th June
00:00:19 --> 00:00:21 2026 and this is Astronomy
00:00:21 --> 00:00:22 M Daily.
00:00:23 --> 00:00:23 Avery: I'm Avery.
00:00:24 --> 00:00:26 Anna: And I'm Anna. We have got a
00:00:26 --> 00:00:29 packed show for you today, including a
00:00:29 --> 00:00:31 Chandra double header that we are very
00:00:31 --> 00:00:32 excited about.
00:00:33 --> 00:00:35 Avery: Plus a quick but important update on a
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37 Dragon capsule that splashed down this
00:00:37 --> 00:00:40 morning carrying some genuinely remarkable
00:00:40 --> 00:00:42 science from the International Space Station.
00:00:42 --> 00:00:43 Anna: Let's get into it.
00:00:44 --> 00:00:46 Avery: Our first story comes from Cape Canaveral,
00:00:46 --> 00:00:48 where SpaceX kicked off today very early this
00:00:48 --> 00:00:51 morning by launching three of the biggest
00:00:51 --> 00:00:54 commercial communications satellites ever put
00:00:54 --> 00:00:55 into low Earth orbit.
00:00:55 --> 00:00:58 Anna: These are AST Space Mobile's
00:00:58 --> 00:01:01 Bluebird 8, 9 and 10, the
00:01:01 --> 00:01:03 latest additions to what the company is
00:01:03 --> 00:01:06 calling the first and only space based
00:01:06 --> 00:01:09 cellular broadband network that connects
00:01:09 --> 00:01:12 directly to ordinary smartphones. No
00:01:12 --> 00:01:15 special hardware, no satellite phone,
00:01:15 --> 00:01:17 just the device already in your pocket.
00:01:18 --> 00:01:20 Avery: The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch
00:01:20 --> 00:01:23 Complex 40 at uh, Cape Canaveral Space Force
00:01:23 --> 00:01:26 Station at 2:39 in the morning Eastern
00:01:26 --> 00:01:27 Time. The BO
00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 B1007 on its 29th flight
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 came back down on the drone ship, a shortfall
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 of gravitas in the Atlantic about eight and a
00:01:36 --> 00:01:38 half minutes later. Business as usual for
00:01:38 --> 00:01:39 SpaceX.
00:01:39 --> 00:01:42 Anna: But the satellites themselves are anything
00:01:42 --> 00:01:44 but routine. These block 2
00:01:44 --> 00:01:47 bluebirds are a major leap over the first
00:01:47 --> 00:01:50 generation. Each one carries a phased
00:01:50 --> 00:01:52 array spanning nearly 2
00:01:52 --> 00:01:55 square feet, making them the largest
00:01:55 --> 00:01:58 commercial phased arrays ever deployed in
00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 low earth orb. For comparison, the
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 first generation bluebirds had a raise of
00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 around 693 square feet. So
00:02:06 --> 00:02:08 we're talking about a uh, three and a half
00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 times increase in size
00:02:10 --> 00:02:13 Avery: and that size translates directly to
00:02:13 --> 00:02:16 capability. Each satellite supports 10
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18 gigahertz of processing bandwidth and peak
00:02:18 --> 00:02:21 speeds of 120 megabits per
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 second per coverage cell. AST Space
00:02:24 --> 00:02:26 Mobile says that's nearly double what the
00:02:26 --> 00:02:28 Block 1 satellites could deliver.
00:02:28 --> 00:02:31 Anna: The company has been racing to build out this
00:02:31 --> 00:02:34 constellation after a setback earlier this
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36 year when a Blue Origin New Glenn
00:02:36 --> 00:02:39 rocket carrying another Bluebird satellite
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 exploded during a static fire test.
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 Today's successful launch puts them firmly
00:02:45 --> 00:02:46 back on track.
00:02:46 --> 00:02:49 Avery: AST Space Mobile already has agreements with
00:02:49 --> 00:02:52 over 50 mobile network operators globally,
00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 including AT&T, Verizon and Vodafone,
00:02:55 --> 00:02:58 covering nearly 3 billion subscribers. The
00:02:58 --> 00:03:00 vision is global broadband coverage,
00:03:00 --> 00:03:02 especially for the billions of people in
00:03:02 --> 00:03:04 areas where terrestrial mobile networks
00:03:04 --> 00:03:05 simply don't reach.
00:03:06 --> 00:03:08 Anna: A big morning for space based connectivity
00:03:08 --> 00:03:11 and a reminder of just how fast this
00:03:11 --> 00:03:12 sector is moving.
00:03:13 --> 00:03:16 Story two, and we are staying with launches
00:03:16 --> 00:03:18 because if one rocket spectacular wasn't
00:03:18 --> 00:03:20 enough for a Wednesday morning, Europe
00:03:20 --> 00:03:22 decided to join the party.
00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 Avery: Orion Space launched its Ariane 6 rocket from
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 the Guiana Space center in Kourou, French
00:03:27 --> 00:03:29 guiana today, carrying
00:03:29 --> 00:03:31 36Amazon Leo broadband
00:03:31 --> 00:03:34 satellites to low Earth orbit. That is the
00:03:34 --> 00:03:36 heaviest payload ever launched by any
00:03:36 --> 00:03:39 Ariane rocket in the entire history of the
00:03:39 --> 00:03:39 program.
00:03:40 --> 00:03:42 Anna: To give that some Context, the previous two
00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 Ariane 6Amazon LEO flights
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 each carried 32 satellites.
00:03:48 --> 00:03:49 Today's mission, designated
00:03:49 --> 00:03:52 VA269, carried four
00:03:52 --> 00:03:55 more. And payload mass is
00:03:55 --> 00:03:56 estimated to be around
00:03:56 --> 00:03:59 45 pounds,
00:03:59 --> 00:04:01 roughly 21 metric tons.
00:04:02 --> 00:04:03 Avery: But here's what makes this launch
00:04:03 --> 00:04:06 particularly noteworthy beyond just a record
00:04:06 --> 00:04:09 payload. Today was the debut flight of the
00:04:09 --> 00:04:11 upgraded P160C solid
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 rocket boosters. Orion 6 flew today with
00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 four of these new strap on boosters and they
00:04:17 --> 00:04:19 are a significant improvement over the
00:04:19 --> 00:04:22 P120C boosters that have powered
00:04:22 --> 00:04:24 all previous Orion 6 flights.
00:04:24 --> 00:04:27 Anna: The P160C boosters are
00:04:27 --> 00:04:30 1 meter longer inside and can carry
00:04:30 --> 00:04:33 up to 156 tons of
00:04:33 --> 00:04:35 propellant each, a, uh, 10%
00:04:36 --> 00:04:38 increase in performance over the
00:04:38 --> 00:04:40 P120C. That
00:04:40 --> 00:04:43 upgrade pushes Ariane 64's
00:04:43 --> 00:04:46 total payload capacity to
00:04:46 --> 00:04:49 approximately 22 tons in low
00:04:49 --> 00:04:49 Earth orbit.
00:04:50 --> 00:04:53 Avery: Ariane says this is all part of Ariane 6
00:04:53 --> 00:04:55 ramping up rapidly. Less than two years after
00:04:55 --> 00:04:58 its inaugural flight, the rocket is already
00:04:58 --> 00:05:00 undergoing its first major performance
00:05:00 --> 00:05:03 upgrade. And with 18 Ariane six
00:05:03 --> 00:05:05 launches contracted for the Amazon LEO
00:05:05 --> 00:05:08 Constellation alone, the European launch
00:05:08 --> 00:05:10 business looks very healthy indeed.
00:05:10 --> 00:05:13 Anna: This was the eighth Ariane 6 launch
00:05:13 --> 00:05:15 overall, and the third of
00:05:15 --> 00:05:18 2026. And with the successful
00:05:18 --> 00:05:21 deployment of these 36 satellites,
00:05:21 --> 00:05:23 Arianespace has now placed
00:05:23 --> 00:05:26 100Amazon LEO satellites into
00:05:26 --> 00:05:28 orbit in just five months.
00:05:29 --> 00:05:30 That is quite apace.
00:05:31 --> 00:05:33 Avery: A uh, quick but important update now
00:05:33 --> 00:05:35 following on from the story we brought you
00:05:35 --> 00:05:37 yesterday about SpaceX's Dragon
00:05:37 --> 00:05:40 CRS 34 cargo capsule
00:05:40 --> 00:05:42 undocking from the International Space
00:05:42 --> 00:05:42 Station.
00:05:43 --> 00:05:46 Anna: As we told you, the Dragon undocked from the
00:05:46 --> 00:05:48 Harmony Module's forward port at around
00:05:49 --> 00:05:52 12:25 Eastern Time yesterday
00:05:52 --> 00:05:54 afternoon while the station was flying
00:05:54 --> 00:05:57 about 418 km
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 above the northern Pacific Ocean. And
00:06:00 --> 00:06:03 this morning, right on schedule, it
00:06:03 --> 00:06:06 splashed down off the coast of California,
00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 completing a roughly 17 hour return
00:06:09 --> 00:06:09 journey.
00:06:10 --> 00:06:12 Avery: And um, this is the part that makes this more
00:06:12 --> 00:06:15 than just a logistics story. Dragon CRS
00:06:15 --> 00:06:17 34 is bringing back some of the most
00:06:17 --> 00:06:20 medically significant science payloads the
00:06:20 --> 00:06:22 station has assembled for return in some
00:06:22 --> 00:06:23 time.
00:06:23 --> 00:06:26 Anna: The cargo includes bioprinted organ
00:06:26 --> 00:06:29 and cartilage tissue work that could
00:06:29 --> 00:06:31 eventually transform how we approach
00:06:31 --> 00:06:34 joint repair and transplant medicine.
00:06:34 --> 00:06:37 There are also materials developed for
00:06:37 --> 00:06:40 DNA inspired cancer treatments, but
00:06:40 --> 00:06:43 blood forming stem cells and data from
00:06:43 --> 00:06:45 experiments on improving cryogenic
00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 fuel storage for future deep space
00:06:48 --> 00:06:49 missions.
00:06:49 --> 00:06:51 Avery: It's worth remembering that Dragon is the
00:06:51 --> 00:06:54 only cargo vehicle currently serving the ISS
00:06:54 --> 00:06:56 that can return to Earth intact.
00:06:57 --> 00:06:59 Russia's Progress capsules and Northrop
00:06:59 --> 00:07:02 Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft both burn up on
00:07:02 --> 00:07:04 re entry, taking whatever they carry with
00:07:04 --> 00:07:07 them. Dragon's ability to bring science
00:07:07 --> 00:07:09 home is genuinely irreplaceable right now.
00:07:10 --> 00:07:13 Anna: Time sensitive samples like living cell
00:07:13 --> 00:07:15 cultures are flown by helicopter from the
00:07:15 --> 00:07:18 recovery ship to Kennedy Space center, where
00:07:18 --> 00:07:21 research teams are standing by a, uh,
00:07:21 --> 00:07:24 reminder that space science doesn't pause at
00:07:24 --> 00:07:24 splashdown.
00:07:25 --> 00:07:28 Avery: Story four and the start of our Chandra
00:07:28 --> 00:07:30 double header and what a place to begin with
00:07:30 --> 00:07:33 the most famous black hole in the universe.
00:07:33 --> 00:07:36 Anna: If the name Messier87 rings
00:07:36 --> 00:07:39 a bell, that's because in 2019
00:07:39 --> 00:07:42 it became the first black HOL that
00:07:42 --> 00:07:45 humanity ever directly imaged. The
00:07:45 --> 00:07:47 Event Horizon Telescope captured that
00:07:47 --> 00:07:50 now iconic picture of a glowing ring
00:07:50 --> 00:07:53 of superheated gas surrounding a
00:07:53 --> 00:07:56 dark central shadow. That shadow
00:07:56 --> 00:07:59 is M M87 star, a
00:07:59 --> 00:08:01 supermassive black hole weighing
00:08:01 --> 00:08:04 6.5 billion times the mass of
00:08:04 --> 00:08:07 our sun, located about 55
00:08:07 --> 00:08:08 million light years away.
00:08:09 --> 00:08:11 Avery: And shooting out from that black hole is one
00:08:11 --> 00:08:14 of nature's most extraordinary phenomena,
00:08:14 --> 00:08:17 a jet of particles being blasted into space
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 at nearly the speed of light, stretching
00:08:20 --> 00:08:22 thousands of light years. We've known about
00:08:22 --> 00:08:24 this jet for a century, but we've never seen
00:08:24 --> 00:08:27 it in quite this level of detail before.
00:08:27 --> 00:08:30 Anna: An international team led by Camille
00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 Poitras, a PhD student at UH
00:08:33 --> 00:08:35 Laval University in Canada, has
00:08:35 --> 00:08:38 produced the most detailed X ray
00:08:38 --> 00:08:41 view ever obtained of that jet by
00:08:41 --> 00:08:43 combining Chandra Observations taken
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 between 2012 and 2025
00:08:46 --> 00:08:49 with advanced image processing techniques.
00:08:50 --> 00:08:53 The results were presented this week at the
00:08:53 --> 00:08:55 248th meeting of the American
00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 Astronomical Society in Pasadena,
00:08:59 --> 00:08:59 California.
00:09:00 --> 00:09:02 Avery: What the team found is genuinely striking.
00:09:03 --> 00:09:05 The deconvolved images reveal structures
00:09:05 --> 00:09:07 within the jet that were previously too
00:09:07 --> 00:09:10 blended together to distinguish, including
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12 two separate components in a feature called
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15 HST1 and complex morphology
00:09:15 --> 00:09:18 in downstream knots. They also measured a
00:09:18 --> 00:09:21 global decrease in the jet's X ray emission
00:09:21 --> 00:09:24 of up to 84% over the observation
00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 period, which is consistent with a process
00:09:26 --> 00:09:28 called synchrotron cooling.
00:09:28 --> 00:09:30 Anna: In plain English, the particles in the jet
00:09:30 --> 00:09:33 are losing energy as they travel, and we can
00:09:33 --> 00:09:35 now watch that cooling happen in real time
00:09:35 --> 00:09:38 across more than a decade of observations.
00:09:38 --> 00:09:40 Some features of the jet appear to be
00:09:40 --> 00:09:42 essentially stationary, while others are
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 moving at what looks like faster than the
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 speed of light, an effect called superluminal
00:09:47 --> 00:09:50 motion that's caused by the geometry of how
00:09:50 --> 00:09:52 we're viewing the jet. Not a violation of
00:09:52 --> 00:09:53 physics.
00:09:53 --> 00:09:56 Avery: The team combined Chandra data with
00:09:56 --> 00:09:58 observations from jwst, the
00:09:58 --> 00:10:01 Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array
00:10:01 --> 00:10:04 and alma, giving a truly multi
00:10:04 --> 00:10:06 wavelength picture of this extraordinary
00:10:06 --> 00:10:09 object. As one team member put it, these
00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 results demonstrate how uniquely powerful
00:10:12 --> 00:10:14 Chandra remains for tracking the evolution of
00:10:14 --> 00:10:17 extreme phenomena over long timescales.
00:10:17 --> 00:10:20 Anna: 26 years after launch, Chandra is still
00:10:20 --> 00:10:23 delivering first of its kind science. And we
00:10:23 --> 00:10:25 have another example of exactly that coming
00:10:25 --> 00:10:26 up next.
00:10:26 --> 00:10:29 Avery: The second half of our Chandra double header
00:10:29 --> 00:10:31 takes us from 55 million light years away
00:10:32 --> 00:10:35 to much closer to home, to the very center
00:10:35 --> 00:10:37 of our own Milky way galaxy, about
00:10:37 --> 00:10:39 26 light years from Earth.
00:10:40 --> 00:10:42 Anna: Astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X
00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 Ray Observatory, working alongside ESA's
00:10:45 --> 00:10:47 XM Newton mission, have detected what
00:10:47 --> 00:10:49 appeared appears to be the remnant of a
00:10:49 --> 00:10:52 supernova. A, uh, dead star's explosion in
00:10:52 --> 00:10:54 a remarkable location right near
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 Sagittarius A, the supermassive
00:10:57 --> 00:10:59 black hole at the heart of the Milky Way
00:10:59 --> 00:11:00 Galaxy.
00:11:00 --> 00:11:03 Avery: If confirmed, this would be the closest
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 supernova remnant ever discovered to
00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 Sagittarius A. And the neighborhood it was
00:11:08 --> 00:11:11 found in is extraordinary. The galactic
00:11:11 --> 00:11:13 center is an incredibly dense, turbulent
00:11:13 --> 00:11:16 region packed with massive stars, long
00:11:16 --> 00:11:19 threads of magnetic fields and enormous
00:11:19 --> 00:11:21 clouds of gas orbiting the central black hole
00:11:21 --> 00:11:22 at high speed.
00:11:23 --> 00:11:25 Anna: The evidence comes from X ray data from both
00:11:25 --> 00:11:28 Chandra and XM Newton, which showed a
00:11:28 --> 00:11:30 mysterious bright spot in a region called the
00:11:30 --> 00:11:33 Sagittarius C complex. The brightness of this
00:11:33 --> 00:11:36 object is about 10 times greater than other
00:11:36 --> 00:11:39 nearby star clusters, which makes it very
00:11:39 --> 00:11:41 unlikely to simply be a cluster of stars.
00:11:41 --> 00:11:44 The research team believes they're looking at
00:11:44 --> 00:11:46 diffuse gas that has been heated to millions
00:11:46 --> 00:11:49 of degrees by the shockwave of a stellar
00:11:49 --> 00:11:49 explosion.
00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 Avery: The team estimates the star that created this
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 wreckage exploded around 1700 years ago.
00:11:55 --> 00:11:58 So sometime in the 3rd or 4th century CE,
00:11:59 --> 00:12:01 the exploding star would have ejected
00:12:01 --> 00:12:04 material at around 2 million miles per hour.
00:12:04 --> 00:12:06 And the expanding shock wave is what Chandra
00:12:06 --> 00:12:09 is detecting now as a diffused glow of X
00:12:09 --> 00:12:09 rays.
00:12:09 --> 00:12:11 Anna: This finding was published in the
00:12:11 --> 00:12:14 Astrophysical Journal, and it adds another
00:12:14 --> 00:12:16 piece to our picture of the galactic center,
00:12:16 --> 00:12:19 one of the most extreme and least understood
00:12:19 --> 00:12:21 environments in our own galaxy. The
00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 researchers note that supernova remnants like
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 this one are, uh, critical suppliers of heavy
00:12:26 --> 00:12:29 elements, iron, oxygen,
00:12:29 --> 00:12:31 silicone that are essential for the formation
00:12:31 --> 00:12:34 of new planets and ultimately for life.
00:12:35 --> 00:12:37 Avery: Two remarkable stories from one remarkable
00:12:37 --> 00:12:40 observatory, Chandra has had quite a week.
00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 Anna: We're closing today's episode with our most
00:12:43 --> 00:12:46 visually spectacular story, a world
00:12:46 --> 00:12:49 so extreme it sounds like science fiction.
00:12:49 --> 00:12:51 But everything we're about to tell you is
00:12:51 --> 00:12:53 real. And it's backed by data from the James
00:12:53 --> 00:12:54 Webb Oscilloscope.
00:12:55 --> 00:12:57 Avery: Meet WASP121B.
00:12:58 --> 00:13:00 This is what astronomers call an ultra hot
00:13:00 --> 00:13:03 Jupiter. A gas giant roughly twice
00:13:03 --> 00:13:06 the size of Jupiter, located about
00:13:06 --> 00:13:08 855 light years from Earth.
00:13:09 --> 00:13:12 It orbits its host star at such an impossibly
00:13:12 --> 00:13:15 close distance that a single year on this
00:13:15 --> 00:13:17 planet lasts just 30 hours. And
00:13:18 --> 00:13:20 because it's so close, it's tidally locked,
00:13:21 --> 00:13:23 meaning one side permanently faces the star
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 and the other side permanently faces cold,
00:13:26 --> 00:13:27 dark space.
00:13:28 --> 00:13:30 Anna: The dayside temperature reaches around
00:13:30 --> 00:13:33 3 degrees Celsius. That
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36 is hot enough to vaporize metals. On
00:13:36 --> 00:13:39 that scorching dayside, materials like
00:13:39 --> 00:13:42 iron, magnesium, titanium and
00:13:42 --> 00:13:44 aluminum exist as gases. But
00:13:44 --> 00:13:47 as powerful winds blowing at around
00:13:47 --> 00:13:49 18 km per hour
00:13:50 --> 00:13:52 carry those vaporized metals around to the
00:13:52 --> 00:13:54 cooler night side, something
00:13:54 --> 00:13:56 extraordinary happens.
00:13:57 --> 00:13:59 Avery: They condense. And when aluminum
00:13:59 --> 00:14:02 condenses with oxygen, it forms a compound
00:14:02 --> 00:14:05 called corundum. And corundum,
00:14:05 --> 00:14:07 depending on which trace impurities are
00:14:07 --> 00:14:10 present, is the mineral that on Earth, we
00:14:10 --> 00:14:12 call either a sapphire or a ruby.
00:14:13 --> 00:14:14 Anna: So on the night side of
00:14:14 --> 00:14:17 WASP121B, it rains
00:14:17 --> 00:14:20 rubies and sapphires. Not
00:14:20 --> 00:14:22 gemstone quality crystals, but
00:14:22 --> 00:14:25 microscopic droplets of what are
00:14:25 --> 00:14:28 essentially liquid gemstones falling
00:14:28 --> 00:14:30 through the clouds before being swept back to
00:14:30 --> 00:14:33 the dayside by those ferocious winds, where
00:14:33 --> 00:14:36 they vaporize again and the cycle continues.
00:14:36 --> 00:14:39 Avery: New WJST observations have
00:14:39 --> 00:14:42 now given astronomers the most detailed
00:14:42 --> 00:14:44 weather picture ever assembled for this
00:14:44 --> 00:14:47 world, tracking atmospheric dynamics
00:14:47 --> 00:14:49 across both hemispheres in three dimensions.
00:14:50 --> 00:14:52 And researchers describe the planet's
00:14:52 --> 00:14:55 atmosphere as a 3D system, not just
00:14:55 --> 00:14:57 a series of snapshots. And say
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 WJST gives them the most detailed
00:15:00 --> 00:15:02 glimpses into distant planets ever
00:15:02 --> 00:15:03 obtained.
00:15:04 --> 00:15:06 Anna: To put that in perspective, we are not just
00:15:06 --> 00:15:08 detecting whether a planet has an atmosphere
00:15:08 --> 00:15:11 anymore. We're doing something approaching
00:15:11 --> 00:15:14 weather forecasting for a world nearly
00:15:14 --> 00:15:15 900 light years away.
00:15:16 --> 00:15:18 Avery: And the forecast for tonight on Wasp
00:15:18 --> 00:15:21 121B, winds at
00:15:21 --> 00:15:23 18 kilometers per hour, with a chance
00:15:23 --> 00:15:26 of sapphire showers on the night side. I
00:15:26 --> 00:15:28 would leave the umbrella at home. It almost
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 certainly won't help.
00:15:30 --> 00:15:32 Anna: That is Astronomy daily for Wednesday,
00:15:32 --> 00:15:35 17 June 2026.
00:15:35 --> 00:15:37 Thank you so much for spending part of your
00:15:37 --> 00:15:38 day with us.
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00:16:00 --> 00:16:03 universe's best stories. Until then, keep
00:16:03 --> 00:16:04 looking up.
00:16:04 --> 00:16:05 Anna: Clear skies, everyone.
00:16:12 --> 00:16:12 The.
00:16:17 --> 00:16:17 Story.