Episode Details

The Discussion:

• Jeni Nearly joined a cult
• Farewell to Carolyn Shoemaker
• The Room of Doom at Redditch Astronomical Society
• The new updated Sky Guide app (that Jen works on)
• Listeners' emails on how annoying we are and nebulae

The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in September, we have:

• A new classification of habitable exoplanets
• Astronomers find thousands of new galaxies
• Red Dwarf stars might not be as hostile to life as previously thought
• Have we found a new spiral arm to the Milky Way?
• Why last year's Comet ATLAS wasn't the comet of a generation

The Sky Guide: This month we're taking a look at the constellation of Aquarius 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 September.

Q&A: Why is the CMB microwave light still visible if it was first emitted 13billion-ish years ago? From our good friend Graeme Durden of Kent in the UK.