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#102 - December 2020 Part 1
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The Discussion: We discuss National Geographic's The Right Stuff series on Disney+, get a little bit ranty about the use of jokey titles in research papers and read out a few of your emails.
The News: Rounding up the astronomy news this month we have:
- An update to the Geysers on Jupiter's moon Europa
- Another asteroid flies scarily close to Earth
- The latest developments in Muskworld
- China's ambitious chang'e-5 mission en-route to the moon
Main News story: The Hayabusa 2 mission and the imminent return of samples from asteroid Ryugu
The Sky Guide: This month we're taking a look at the great winter constellation of Orion 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 December.
Guide to the Electromagnetic Spectrum: In November we concluded our look at the electromagnetic spectrum. But as we now have a new method of detecting events beyond the electromagnetic spectrum, this month we explain gravitational wave astronomy.