20250428_Hints of summer!

20250428_Hints of summer!

Update: 2025-04-29
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Paul Mackin and Julie Tomé discuss the beginnings of radio astronomy, pioneering astronauts, and wish astronomer Gibor Basri a happy birthday this week in astronomy and space history. In news, the Lucy Mission has done a flyby of Asteroid Donaldjohnson and New Horizons data were used to map the galaxy in Lyman-alpha radiation. As April winds down we get better weather and a preview of our summer skies!

Episode art: M13 Great Cluster in Hercules, image credit Conor Hayes, AICO, 2021

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20250428_Hints of summer!

20250428_Hints of summer!

Paul Mackin, Julie Tomé