{"id":818,"date":"2021-04-01T00:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-04-01T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:19:05","slug":"106-april-2021-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/106-april-2021-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"#106 &#8211; April 2021 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/><iframe style=\"display:block;\"  style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18557288\/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>Jen finally becomes Dr Jen \u2013 bow down pitiful Earthlings!<\/li>\n<li>Binocular astronomy<\/li>\n<li>Get the book Vera Rubin &#8211; A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton with 25% off by emailing cs-books@wiley.com, and quoting the discount code H0350 (mentioning Awesome Astronomy probably wouldn&#8217;t go amiss too)<\/li>\n<li>Emails from listeners correcting a possible error and posing a teasing question about US refractors.<\/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>UCL researchers unravel the mystery of the Antikythera mechanism<\/li>\n<li>The Event Horizon Telescope improves the image of a supermassive black hole by revealing its magnetic fields<\/li>\n<li>Confirming the existence of the furthest major solar system object<\/li>\n<li>An exoplanet that lost its atmosphere and then gained another one!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Main News story: CERN&#8217;s LHC spots a quirky quark that hints at a big anomaly in the Standard Model of Physics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Sky Guide<\/span>: This month we&#8217;re taking a look at the constellation of Coma Bereneces 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 April.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Q&amp;A<\/span>: <em>You mentioned recently that a comet was a long period comet? What does this mean? How do we know if a comet is a long period comet?<\/em> From our good friend Arliss Evans in Texas, USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20210401--Awesome-Astronomys-April-Episode-Part1.mp3?dest-id=2394350\">Download the episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discussion: Jen finally becomes Dr Jen \u2013 bow down pitiful Earthlings! Binocular astronomy Get the book Vera Rubin &#8211; A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton with 25% off by emailing cs-books@wiley.com, and quoting the discount code H0350 (mentioning Awesome Astronomy probably wouldn&#8217;t go amiss too) Emails from listeners correcting a possible error and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/106-april-2021-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#106 &#8211; April 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\/818"}],"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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}