#74 - August 2018

The Discussion: Jeni cares so little for our listeners that she
didn’t even bother to show up this month (except for the
interview section) and with no discipline Paul’s defacing
valuable space artefacts and the emails to the show take a plunge
south.


The News: The news section gets a revamp with a quick round up of
the space exploration and astronomy news, covering:


The United Kingdom’s new spaceports

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission to return asteroid samples

New optics on ESO's Very Large Telescope

10 more moons discovered on Jupiter and volcanoes on Io

The latest data from ESA’s Planck mission

A rare extra solar neutrino discovery



The Interview: Jeni talks to Josh Borrow from Durham University’s
Institute of Computational Cosmology about their simulations of
the universe using supercomputers - and how you can make and
control your own universe (yes, for reals!) at galaxymakers.org


The Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook &
Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have
always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This
month we take a look at the eventual fate of the dying star
Betelgeuse:


When Betelgeuse goes kabloom, what’s the best estimate of what
will be left, neutron star, pulsar, magnetar or black hole? From
Martin Bradshaw in Accrington UK,