Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for October 2024!
In this episode we’re chatting about SO many things, including which planets you can spot in the night sky, how to get a last look at C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) before it gets too faint, plus the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 for AI tools which went to Geoffery Hinton and John Hopfield, the launch of the Europa Clipper mission and the Hera mission, Earth's new min-moon asteroid 2024 PT5, plus JWST's latest discovery of a galaxy in the distant Universe that appears as if the gas outshines the stars.
00:00 - Introduction
00:54 - Orionids Meteor Shower
01:54 - Comet 2024/A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
03:35 - Toenail moon meets Venus & Mercury
03:49 - Mercury greatest elongation
04:42 - Saturn, Jupiter & Mars
05:13 - Mars and Jupiter in the Winter Hexagon
06:55 - Trainwell AD
08:54 - Nobel Prize in Physics for AI
12:51 - Europa Clipper launch
14:40 - Hera launch to Didymos and Dimorphos
18:07 - Earth has a second moon asteroid 2024 PT5
20:31 - JWST's bright gas galaxy GS NDG 9422
27:43 - Bloopers