{"id":808,"date":"2021-02-01T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2021-02-01T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T08:31:13","slug":"104-february-2021-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/01\/104-february-2021-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"#104 &#8211; February 2021 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/><iframe style=\"display:block;\"  style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17767610\/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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Discussion<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeni on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highbrowdrivel.com\/\">Highbrow Drivel<\/a> podcast<\/li>\n<li>More astronomy goodness at <a href= \"https:\/\/www.fifthstarlabs.com\/#sky-guide\">Sky Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The amateur astronomy\/dogging connection<\/li>\n<li>A review of George Clooney&#8217;s The Midnight Sky<\/li>\n<li>Listener emails about the birth of amateur astroimaging &amp; &#8216;Arecedos&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The News<\/span>: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hot Jupiter world with a totally transparent atmosphere<\/li>\n<li>New research suggest the most abundant stars can fuel photosynthesis<\/li>\n<li>Elliptical galaxies forming new stars hundreds of times faster than our Milky Way<\/li>\n<li>Citizen scientists creates a 3D map of largely invisible brown dwarf stars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Main News story: @ESA&#8217;s #CHEOPS satellite looks at a star with exoplanets and finds even more planets in a system that should be able to exist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Sky Guide<\/span>: This month we&#8217;re taking a look at the constellation of Perseus with a guide to its history, how to find it, a couple of deep sky objects and a round-up of the solar system views on offer in February.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Q&amp;A<\/span>: <em>Are there any other planets in the solar system that could support geostationary communications satellites?<\/em> From Steve Carter in Welwyn Garden City, UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20210201--Awesome-Astronomys-February-Episode-Part1.mp3?dest-id=2394350\">Download the episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discussion: Jeni on the Highbrow Drivel podcast More astronomy goodness at Sky Guide The amateur astronomy\/dogging connection A review of George Clooney&#8217;s The Midnight Sky Listener emails about the birth of amateur astroimaging &amp; &#8216;Arecedos&#8217; The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have: A hot Jupiter world with a totally transparent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/01\/104-february-2021-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#104 &#8211; February 2021 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\/808"}],"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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}