#87 - September 2019 Part 1

The Discussion: A good old British whinge about the weather and
looking forward to our biannual dark sky star party, AstoCamp.


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


An experiment in an underground lab in London to understand
dark energy

Eight new repeating fast radio burst source

Help us come up with a cooler name than a pair-instability
supernova

The late accretion phase of the formation of the solar system

The discovery of interstellar radioactive iron in the
Antarctica

Spitzer reveals surprising exoplanetary details.

A new exoplanet discovery of three rocky worlds in the same
system

Using oceanography to suggest greater exoplanet biodiversity



The main news story discussion: The latest big Juno discovery at
Jupiter.


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


Jen: A tour of the planets on offer and the zodiacal light


Ralph: Jupiter Saturn and two meteor showers in September. Then
further afield, a double star, an open cluster and a dark Nebula
in Cepheus.


Main Object: Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula


Q&A: How can Titan have such a thick atmosphere with such a
low gravity? From Alastair Frith in the UK