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 16 Oct 2025

The sky on 16 October 2025
Sunrise
06:55
Sunset
18:16
Twilight ends
19:39
Twilight begins
05:32


Waning Crescent

12%

25 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:41 13:54 19:06
Venus 05:21 11:24 17:27
Moon 02:25 09:15 15:56
Mars 08:49 14:05 19:20
Jupiter 23:48 06:53 13:57
Saturn 17:05 22:58 04:51
All times shown in PDT.

Source

This information was taken from the Naked Astronomy website.

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