New Light shines on Saturn this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Linda Spelker is back.

The Cassini Mission Deputy Project Scientist has news from Saturn and its mysterious moons and rings.

We'll check in with her in a couple of minutes.

Bruce Betts has end-of-year tidings of the night sky and a new space trivia contest

and we'll finish with something special from Emily Lach dualla, a solar system version of a classic holiday poem.

And speaking of both Emily and Cassini, take a look at her image for day 27 of the solar system advent calendar.

It's a brand new and quite striking shot of Saturn's little ring moon Prometheus.

We've got the direct link at planetary.org

slash radio. We've also got four spectacular movies of Cassini's

moons swinging past each other and the great planets rings. They are a wonderful late Christmas

present. I'll be right back with Linda Spilker. With his own wishes for the new year

here's Bill. Hey hey Bill Nye the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society.

First of all, scientists have found super-eurs on nearby stars.

Right over there at 61 Virginess, they found a planet that's that's Earth

sized and sooner or later they're going to find Earth-sized planets that are in

the zone where there'd be liquid water and then we're going to go looking for life

when that's going to be exciting.

Excuse me, Bill, I know you haven't introduced me your special guest so far, but it's

it's actually double-Earth-sized, not Earth-sized.

Wait, are you from the future?

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