Spacetime With Stuart Gary

SpaceTime 20190626 Series 22 Episode 47 The astronomy and space science news podcast.Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly).  *New Mission to intercept a cometThe European Space Agency has announced a new mission to study a comet. The new Comet Interceptor mission will visit a pristine comet or interstellar asteroid making its first orbit around the Sun. *The warm glow of Uranus’ ringsA new study of the rings of Uranus have found them to have a temperature of just 77 degrees above absolute zero -- the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen. *Celebrating 50 years since the Apollo 11 lunar landingThe world is gearing up to celebrate what is arguably the most significant date in human history – the day man set foot on the surface of another world for the first time. *Plate tectonics may have driven Cambrian ExplosionThe quest to discover what drove one of the most important evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth has taken a new, fascinating twist. *Ariane 5