{"id":814,"date":"2021-03-01T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2021-03-01T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:04:58","slug":"105-march-2021-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/105-march-2021-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"#105 &#8211; March 2021 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/><iframe style=\"display:block;\"  style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18116810\/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>Paul becomes the new Vice President of <a href= \"https:\/\/www.wycombeastro.org\/latestnews\/4spz93m8yexkzkd5xb4njz6fk4mdtm\"> Wycombe Astronomical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jen gets a date for her PhD viva<\/li>\n<li>Jen promoting NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover on the BBC<\/li>\n<li>Get ready for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teentech.com\/live\/\">Teentech Live<\/a> on 5th March<\/li>\n<li>Emails from listeners highlighting the good and bad in Awesome Astronomy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The News<\/span>: Rounding up the astronomy news in February, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cygnus X-1 black hole must be much bigger than we thought<\/li>\n<li>A single neutrino detection reveals a super-supermassive blackhole<\/li>\n<li>Was the impact that killed the dinosaurs an asteroid or comet?<\/li>\n<li>Earth&#8217;s regular magnetic pole reversals may be catastrophic to life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Main News story: A return to the mythical Planet 9 and a new paper casting further doubt on the evidence in favour of an undiscovered massive object in the outer solar system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Sky Guide<\/span>: This month we&#8217;re taking a look at the constellation of Gemini 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 March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Q&amp;A<\/span>: <em>Wouldn&#8217;t it be awesome if there was some sort of collective effort to digitise and share the historic astronomical records held in observatories&#8217; glass plates?<\/em> From our good friend Tony Horton in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20210301--Awesome-Astronomys-March-Episode-Part1.mp3?dest-id=2394350\">Download the episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discussion: Paul becomes the new Vice President of Wycombe Astronomical Society Jen gets a date for her PhD viva Jen promoting NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover on the BBC Get ready for Teentech Live on 5th March Emails from listeners highlighting the good and bad in Awesome Astronomy &nbsp; The News: Rounding up the astronomy news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/105-march-2021-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#105 &#8211; March 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\/814"}],"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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}