2024: Our Space Odyssey

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This year has been a spectacular one for celestial phenomena. The northern lights delighted in unexpected ways while a total solar eclipse cast a shadow across North America. Those events were enough to make it a memorable year, but 2024 also shook up our understanding of the universe. A new reading of Voyager 2 data may explain Uranus’s weird magnetic field. And the impressive James Webb Space Telescope has detected an early and incredibly distant galaxy. Join us in our look back at some of the top space news from 2024. Guests: Andrew Fraknoi – Professor of Astronomy at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco and SETI board member Jamie Jasinski - space plasma physicist for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and author of a recent paper re-examining data from the Voyager 2 mission, published in Nature. Phil Plait - astronomer, author, science communicator and frequent contributor at Scientific American. Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.6	20204 has been a truly notable year when it comes to space news.
1:15.6	Disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field produced a spectacular show by the Northern Lights.
1:20.6	And many lucky viewers got to see a solar eclipse sweep across North America as the moon briefly blocked the sun.
1:29.3	And it is so beautiful.
1:31.3	The sky suddenly darkens in the middle of the day, and birds and animals are completely confused.
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