In this show we talk about Mars Phoenix Lander touching down on Mars and sending back its first results. In our interview Ben Maughan tells us how he has been weighing clusters of galaxies. Tim O'Brien tells us about events at Jodrell Bank Observatory over the next month including the Longest Day Garden Party. We also get the latest news from Megan and find out what you can see in the night sky from Ian.
Show Links
- Mars Phoenix Lander mission site
- Mars Phoenix mission blog
- Twitter: MarsPhoenix
- Mars Phoenix caught by MRO during descent
- Planetary Society: Mars Phoenix pictured against Heimdall crater
- Planetary Society: A Mars Phoenix panorama
- Planetary Society: The Mars Phoenix landing site from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- The Mars Scorecard!
The news - June 2008
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- Astronomers identify the Galaxy?s youngest supernova remnant
- "The radio expansion and brightening of the very young supernova remnant G1.9+0.3", Green et al, 2008, MNRAS (Letters), 387, L54-L58
- "The Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant: G1.9+0.3", Reynolds et al., 2008, ApJ Letters in press
- "An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova", Soderberg et al, Nature 453, 469-474 (22 May 2008)
- The Very Large Array
- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Scientific Blogging: All Eyes Turn To NGC 2770 For a Supernova Birth
- Max-Planck-Institut f? extraterrestrische Physik
- MPE: Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
- Nature News: "Astronomers spot a runaway supermassive black hole"
- HiRISE: Looking For Mars Polar Lander
- Mars Polar Lander mission site
Interview with Dr Ben Maughan (University of Bristol)
- Wikipedia: Fritz Zwicky
- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
- ESA's XMM Newton
- Hubblecast: Hubble sees 'Comet Galaxy' being ripped apart by galaxy cluster
- MP3: Skywatch - A Distant Cluster of Galaxies seen by XMM-Newton
The night sky for June 2008
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- Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for June 2008
Show Credits
| News: | Megan Argo |
| Interview: | Dr Ben Maughan and Nick Rattenbury |
| Night sky this month: | Ian Morison |
| Presenters: | Stuart Lowe and Nick Rattenbury |
| Editor: | Nick Rattenbury |
| Intro/outro script: | David Ault |
| Intro/outro voices: | Tom Backus as Dr Rattenstein, Elie Hirschman as Stuart and Prof O'Brien, Fiona Thraille as Megan, and Dave Maciver as David |
| Website: | Stuart Lowe |
| Cover art: | Color image, acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 7 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University |