#105 - March 2021 Part 1

The Discussion:


Paul becomes the new Vice President of Wycombe Astronomical
Society

Jen gets a date for her PhD viva

Jen promoting NASA’s Perseverance rover on the BBC

Get ready for Teentech Live on 5th March

Emails from listeners highlighting the good and bad in
Awesome Astronomy



 


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


The Cygnus X-1 black hole must be much bigger than we thought

A single neutrino detection reveals a super-supermassive
blackhole

Was the impact that killed the dinosaurs an asteroid or
comet?

Earth’s regular magnetic pole reversals may be catastrophic
to life



Main News story: A return to the mythical Planet 9 and a new
paper casting further doubt on the evidence in favour of an
undiscovered massive object in the outer solar system.


 


The Sky Guide: This month we’re taking a look at the
constellation of Gemini 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 March.


 


Q&A: Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was some sort of
collective effort to digitise and share the historic astronomical
records held in observatories’ glass plates? From our good friend
Tony Horton in the UK.