{"id":524,"date":"2018-07-01T22:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2019-06-05T19:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:04:33","slug":"74-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/01\/74-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"#74 &#8211; August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe style=\"display:block;\"  src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6872299\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" placement=\"top\" theme=\"standard\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"podcast-class\" frameborder=\"0\" custom_color=\"75942D\"><\/iframe><br \/><br \/><br \/><a class=\"libsyn-download-link\" href =\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20180805--Awesome-Astronomys-August-Episode.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download Episode!<\/a><br \/>\n<p>The Discussion: Jeni cares so little for our listeners that she didn\u2019t even bother to show up this month (except for the interview section) and with no discipline Paul\u2019s defacing valuable space artefacts and the emails to the show take a plunge south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The News: The news section gets a revamp with a quick round up of the space exploration and astronomy news, covering:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The United Kingdom\u2019s new spaceports<\/li><li>Japan\u2019s Hayabusa 2 mission to return asteroid samples<\/li><li>New optics on ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope<\/li><li>10 more moons discovered on Jupiter and volcanoes on Io<\/li><li>The latest data from ESA\u2019s Planck mission<\/li><li>A rare extra solar neutrino discovery<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Interview: Jeni talks to Josh Borrow from Durham University\u2019s Institute of Computational Cosmology about their simulations of the universe using supercomputers &#8211; and how you can make and control your own universe (yes, for reals!) at galaxymakers.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Q&amp;A: Listeners\u2019 questions via email, Facebook &amp; Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. 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