{"id":552,"date":"2019-01-01T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2019-06-05T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:44:40","slug":"79-january-2019-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/01\/79-january-2019-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"#79 &#8211; January 2019 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe style=\"display:block;\"  src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/8099651\/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\/20190101--Awesome-Astronomys-January-Episode-Part-1.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download Episode!<\/a><br \/>\n<p>The Discussion: Festive cheer, academic hiatuses, magnificent cheeses, a surfeit of meat, space themed presents and listeners\u2019 emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The Milky Way gives birth to around 7 stars per year<\/li><li>Watching a star being born from a nearby massive star<\/li><li>A new way to map the dark matter in our universe<\/li><li>Where\u2019s the methane on Mars?<\/li><li>Saturn\u2019s rings are more short lived than we thought<\/li><li>The discovery of another outer solar system object<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Main news story: 1) The ALMA telescope helps to understand how solar systems form and why newly forming planets don\u2019t spiral into their host star. 2) The International Astronomical Union has its 100th anniversary in 2019 and there will be a series of events (probably near you) to celebrate a century of astronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sky Guide: Covering the solar system and deep sky objects on offer to amateur astronomers in the first month of the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ralph: The Quadrantids peak on 3rd\/4th January, a total lunar eclipse on 21st January, and Comet 46P Wirtanen still in our skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeni: Mars and Uranus in Pisces, a glimpse of Neptune in Aquarius, Venus blazing away before dawn, and Jupiter in Ophiuchus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul: The Christmas Tree Cluster, Snowflake Cluster, Cone Nebula and the Fox Fur Nebula in Monoceros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Main Deep Sky Object: M45, the Pleiades Cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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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