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JWST finds Galaxy where the Gas Outshines the Stars?!

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

Dr Becky Smethurst
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