August Naked Astronomy podcast released

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Why are we still curious about Mars? This month on Naked Astronomy, we're looking into Martian matters to find out how we got to where we are today, ushering in a new era of Martian discoveries from the Mars Science Laboratory. Also, we'll examine the evidence for liquid lakes below the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, find out how supermassive stars can form and why the Google Lunar X-Prize is encouraging commercial missions to the Moon. Plus, our guests take on your space science questions... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

More details of the podcast are posted here, and on the Naked Astronomy website.

The sky on 19 Apr 2026

The sky on 19 April 2026
Sunrise
06:14
Sunset
19:26
Twilight ends
20:55
Twilight begins
04:45


Waxing Crescent

11%

2 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:25 11:28 17:31
Venus 07:30 14:27 21:25
Moon 07:34 15:00 22:33
Mars 05:21 11:29 17:37
Jupiter 11:05 18:14 01:22
Saturn 05:26 11:31 17:36
All times shown in PDT.

Source

This information was taken from the Naked Astronomy website.

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