Solar Flares & Top-Secret Drops: Talking Space with David Reneke

The universe is putting on an absolute show this week, both in our night skies and in the government's declassified archives. We dive straight into the deep end of a major solar event, as a sunspot region unleashes an M5.7 flare and a billion-tonne cloud of superheated gas. We track its 150-million-kilometer journey toward Earth and find out exactly what it means for your smartphone GPS—and your chances of spotting a spectacular Aurora Australis right here in our local skies. Plus, we look back to look forward. We unpack the historic 1969 Apollo 11 "open suitcase" anomaly that baffled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, before shifting to Washington's latest massive data dump. The US government has just released 162 top-secret UAP files, every single one of them officially stamped "Unresolved." From hidden wormhole physics to blinding lunar lens flares, we bring in resident astronomer David Reneke to help us apply a healthy dose of hard science to the wildest cosmic headlines.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.