#90 - December 2019 Part 1

The Discussion: A look at the BBC’s new Martian invasion
documentary, The War of the Worlds; the recent transit of
Mercury; Celestron’s new phone adapter; Jen’s upcoming talks in
Wales, an update on Jen’s research paper, a new research project
and a debate over the start and end of a decade. Then we take a
look at a couple of listeners’ emails.


The News: Rounding up the astronomy news this month we have:


Water vapour geysers on Europa

Ultima Thule loses its Nazi moniker

Locating the stellar remnant from the closest supernova to
Earth

Are Axions dark matter particles? (no)

And a round up of spaceflight news from NASA, ESA, India, New
Zealand & UK



The Sky Guide: Covering the solar system and deep sky objects on
offer to amateur astronomers in December:


Jen: A round up of the planets available to northern
hemisphere observers in December, and a look at the Pleiades in
Taurus.

Paul: The best meteor shower of the year and naked eye
visible open cluster Messier 35.



The Debate: A look back at the debates and votes over the past
year with your result for The Best Space Mission of All Time.