Spacetime With Stuart Gary

SpaceTime Series 22 Episode 31  The astronomy and space science news podcast.Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly).  *Astronomers capture the first ever direct image of a black holeAstronomers have successfully captured one of the most important pictures in scientific history – an actual image of a supermassive black hole.  This breakthrough was announced in a series of six papers published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and at a co-ordinated series of special press conferences held simultaneously around the globe. *Mercury has a solid inner coreScientists have determined that the planet Mercury has a solid metallic inner core similar in size to the Earth’s. The findings reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, help scientists better understand Mercury while at the same time offering clues about how the solar system formed and how rocky planets evolve over time. *Preparing CHEOPSThe European Space Agency’s mission to study stra