#106 - April 2021 Part 1

The Discussion:


Jen finally becomes Dr Jen – bow down pitiful Earthlings!

Binocular astronomy

Get the book Vera Rubin - A Life by Jacqueline and Simon
Mitton with 25% off by emailing cs-books@wiley.com, and quoting
the discount code H0350 (mentioning Awesome Astronomy probably
wouldn’t go amiss too)

Emails from listeners correcting a possible error and posing
a teasing question about US refractors.



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


UCL researchers unravel the mystery of the Antikythera
mechanism

The Event Horizon Telescope improves the image of a
supermassive black hole by revealing its magnetic fields

Confirming the existence of the furthest major solar system
object

An exoplanet that lost its atmosphere and then gained another
one!



Main News story: CERN’s LHC spots a quirky quark that hints at a
big anomaly in the Standard Model of Physics


The Sky Guide: This month we’re taking a look at the
constellation of Coma Bereneces 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 April.


Q&A: You mentioned recently that a comet was a long period
comet? What does this mean? How do we know if a comet is a long
period comet? From our good friend Arliss Evans in Texas, USA.