{"id":802,"date":"2020-12-18T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T10:52:06","slug":"102-december-2020-part-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/102-december-2020-part-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#102 &#8211; December 2020 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/><iframe style=\"display:block;\"  style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17245307\/height\/360\/width\/\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/standard\/tdest_id\/2394350\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"podcast-class\" frameborder=\"0\" placement=\"bottom\" theme=\"custom\" custom_color=\"75942D\"><\/iframe>\n<p>A jolly romp around viruses and tasers!<\/p>\n<p>We look back at the astronomy and space exploration highlights of 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phosphine in Venus atmosphere<\/li>\n<li>The saga of SpaceX<\/li>\n<li>Chang&#8217;e 5 at the Moon<\/li>\n<li>Comets Atlas &amp; Neowise<\/li>\n<li>3 missions to Mars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lows of 2020 in astronomy and space exploration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cancellation of SPICA<\/li>\n<li>The loss of the Arecibo radio telescope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We look forward to the anticipated events of 2021:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luna 25, Chandrayaan-3 &amp; Artemis 1 to the Moon<\/li>\n<li>3 Mars arrivals<\/li>\n<li>Vera C Rubin telescope &amp; Maybe JWST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And we run through our own predictions for next year before signing off with our customary end-of-year outtakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20201218--Awesome-Astronomys-Christmas_Pantomime.mp3?dest-id=2394350\">Download the episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jolly romp around viruses and tasers! We look back at the astronomy and space exploration highlights of 2020: Phosphine in Venus atmosphere The saga of SpaceX Chang&#8217;e 5 at the Moon Comets Atlas &amp; Neowise 3 missions to Mars The lows of 2020 in astronomy and space exploration: Cancellation of SPICA The loss of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/102-december-2020-part-1-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#102 &#8211; December 2020 Part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}