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February Naked Astronomy podcast released

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Is an asteroid impact more likely than winning the lottery? What can Moon rock tell us about the Earth? And how did a biology teacher discover a new astronomical object? In this Naked Astronomy AstroFest special, we'll ask if the Kepler observatory is ushering in a new scientific revolution, meet Hanny van Arkel, who discovered Hanny's Voorwerp on citizen science project Galaxy Zoo and find out why one former MP thinks we should be concerned about being hit by an asteroid... 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 May 2025

The sky on 16 May 2025
Sunrise
05:31
Sunset
20:05
Twilight ends
22:00
Twilight begins
03:36

19-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

82%

19 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 04:58 11:49 18:40
Venus 03:41 09:56 16:11
Moon 23:31 03:41 07:52
Mars 11:04 18:16 01:28
Jupiter 07:18 14:49 22:20
Saturn 03:19 09:14 15:09
All times shown in EDT.

Source

This information was taken from the Naked Astronomy website.

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41.14°N
73.26°W
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