#111 - September 2021 Part 1

The Discussion:


Jeni Nearly joined a cult

Farewell to Carolyn Shoemaker

The Room of Doom at Redditch Astronomical Society

The new updated Sky Guide app (that Jen works on)

Listeners’ emails on how annoying we are and nebulae



 


The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in September, we have:


A new classification of habitable exoplanets

Astronomers find thousands of new galaxies

Red Dwarf stars might not be as hostile to life as previously
thought

Have we found a new spiral arm to the Milky Way?

Why last year’s Comet ATLAS wasn’t the comet of a generation



 


The Sky Guide: This month we’re taking a look at the
constellation of Aquarius with a guide to its history, how to
find it, a couple of deep sky objects and a round-up of the solar
system views on offer in September.


 


Q&A: Why is the CMB microwave light still visible if it was
first emitted 13billion-ish years ago? From our good friend
Graeme Durden of Kent in the UK.