May 2008

In this show we find out about a mysterious blue blob found in the Galaxy Zoo and we find out what the Genesis mission can tell us about oxygen in the solar wind. We also get the latest news from Megan and find out what you can see in the night sky from Ian.

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The news - May 2008

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• HST: Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
• ESA: Milky Way's black hole activity 300 years ago
• ESA's XMM-Newton
• Nature: The inner jet of an active galactic nucleus as revealed by a radio-to-big gamma-ray outburst
• Reuters: Radio telescopes capture black hole mid-belch
• Hubble marks 18 years in orbit

Interview with Dr Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)

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• Galaxy Zoo
• Galaxy Zoo Blog
• Galaxy Zoo Blog: The Mystery of the Voorwerp Deepens!
• Galaxy Zoo Blog: Voorwerp fever
• Dr Chris Lintott's Universe
• Slacker Astronomy video podcast: The light echo in V838 Mon

Interview with Prof Kevin McKeegan (UCLA)

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• Professor Kevin McKeegan
• NASA's Genesis Mission

The night sky for May 2008

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• Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for May 2008
• The current location of the International Space Station
• Find out when you can see the International Space Station from your location
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• APoD: Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
• APoD: Stickney Crater on Phobos
• MP3: Listen to Ian's review of the Celestron NexStar 130SLT

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