Giant Surprises from the Dwarf Planet
Listen 00:07:27Images and data beamed back from NASA’s New Horizons mission has astronomers rethinking what they thought they knew about Pluto. Kepler 452b, aka Earth 2.0 – follow all the action at Search ‘NASA finding another earth.’
Take Derrick’s challenge of spying Saturn and the bright red star of Scorpius, Antares in the night sky this week.
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