Some of my favorite releases of 2024 (2 hours isn't enough time for all of my best of)

The Event Horizon Telescope is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The array has an angular resolution that can observe a supermassive black hole's event horizon.

The Neutron Star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second.

The supermassive black hole in the pit of the Milky Way is real and has a name: Sagittarius A. With a mass of 4.3 million Suns, it could fit inside Mercury's orbit.

It seems that Dark Matter can sing, but only if it's given a microphone made of a Black Hole.

Star Pilots Lisa and Sue live in the studio for fundraising

When a planet passes in front of a star, the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere. Lines in the resulting spectrum occur where different elements absorb light at characteristic energies, indicating the composition of the planet's atmosphere.

The chance for a spooky Halloween comet sighting will not happen. The comet known as C/2024 S1 didn’t survive it’s rendezvous with the sun, as it broke apart at parahelion.

 

 For those in the Northern hemisphere, the next weeks are our best chance to see Comet A3, which came from the Oort Cloud, and won’t be back for 80,000 years

The constellations Carina, Vela, and Puppis make up Argo Navis, the mythical ship. Argo Navis was one of the 48 constellations listed in the Almagest.