2024.08.28 | An Astronomical Miscellany

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 August 2024:

Space Show News:

* Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test update —Starliner to return uncrewed and the crew to return on Crew Dragon 9 in February 2025

Astronomical Miscellany:

• ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array) — European Southern Observatory, Chile
• HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) — European Southern Observatory
• Europa Clipper being prepared for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
• Luna H-Map results
• JWST discovers most distant galaxy
• Solar spicules
• ESA’s Solar Orbiter sheds light on solar wind
• Plasma oscillations around Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• The van Allen Radiation belts
• Exoplanets

(Audio inserts courtesy JSC, ESO, JPL, ASU, GSFC)