In this month’s night sky news episode we’re chatting about comet Pons Brooks, which might become a naked-eye comet, the European-Extremely Large Telescope in Chile moving its dome for the first time, ESA giving the go-ahead for the LISA gravitational wave detector, JWST finding a rare “dead” dwarf galaxy, and JWST revealing the dust structure in 19 galaxies in incredible detail.
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - "Micro”-Full Moon!
02:17 - Venus, Mars, crescent Moon
03:43 - Waxing crescent Moon + Jupiter!
04:21 - Half-moon in Winter Hexagon
05:31 - Post-Equinox conjunction of Venus & Saturn
06:51 - Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks!
10:32 - E-ELT rotates dome
12:12 - LISA adopted by ESA
15:15 - Arno Penzias RIP
16:15 - Ingenuity end of mission
16:30 - Juno close flyby of Io
19:42 - 19 of the PHANGS JWST MIRI galaxies!
25:42 - First-ever isolated “dead” dwarf galaxy discovered by JWST
30:21 - Conclusion
31:56 - Bloops