13: Space Nuts Ep 12 - Success and failure

from Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries · host Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley

Hi everyone...Andrew here with the show notes:In this episode we take a look at the huge success of the Blue Origin project and the disappearance of the Japanese Hitomi satellite project. What's happened to it? We report on what's known and the speculation.Do you know what a Protoplanetary Disc is? (I could barely say it...) According to Wikipedia : 'A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star.' We discuss...and Fred clarifies.And are scientists really planning to defend earth from aliens with some sort of laser shield? Maybe...maybe not. Fred gives his opinion on this news...You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes (please leave a review...it helps us a lot); audioBoom; Stitcher; Pocketcasts; Podcast Addict or any good podcatcher app.You can also listen to this and past episodes at our website via www.bitesz.com . Please sign up for our irregular newsletter while there.#astronomy #space #science #BlueOrigin #Hitomi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/space-nuts-astronomy-insights-cosmic-discoveries--2631155/support.

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