A newly discovered, unexplained Fast Radio Burst | Night Sky News February 2020
It’s night sky news time again - and there's so much for us to talk about! From overturning how we think the solar system was formed to the discovery of a whole new unexplained repeating fast radio burst. Timestamps and links to papers below. #stargazing #spacenews #astronomy
00:49 - Things to look out for in the night sky
04:57 - Retirement of Spitzer Space Telescope
06:23 - Launch of ESA Solar Orbiter
07:00 - The most detailed image ever of the Sun
08:05 - Chang'e 4 images of the Moon - see more here: http://moon.bao.ac.cn/pubMsg/detail-CE4EN.jsp#
08:44 - Open conversation between astronomers and SpaceX Starlink
13:57 - Our solar system formed gently not violently
17:38 - Newly discovered repeating, periodic (!), fast radio burst
New Horizons team (2020) x3 - https://science.sciencemag.org..../content/early/2020/
https://science.sciencemag.org..../content/early/2020/
https://science.sciencemag.org..../content/early/2020/
Gallozzi et al. (2020) - SpaceX concerns - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10952.pdf
CHIME collaboration (2020) - fast radio burst announcement - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10275.pdf
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