June 2024: Scorpions, snakes, & rants about space tourism

Please Look Up

Leon and Beth chat about what you'll see looking up at the sky in Boorloo in June.

Featuring Antares (the moral enemy of Mars), Hydra (the giant snake) and Alphard (the lonely Librarian). Beth rants about space tourism, and Leon nerds-out over a "really cool graph."

Discussed this month:

• The Winter Solstice
• Planets: Mercury, Saturn, Mars & Jupiter
• Constellations: Scorpius & Hydra
• Stars: Antares, Alphard,
• Space Flight Focus: Blue Origin, New Shepard.

Space Pictures of the Month:

Earth and Moon as viewed from Mars

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/earth-and-moon-as-viewed-from-mars/

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems

Percentage of World's Population in Daylight or Twighlight

Credit: timeanddate.com

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight

Credits:

Hosts: Beth Maskall, Leon Smith.

Recording, Mixing, and Editing: Alyshia Gatani

Please Look Up is recorded at Scitech on Whadjuk Noongar Land.

We embrace Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first STEM practitioners, and value their knowledge as the very first astronomers, engineers, problem-solvers and innovators of this land. ​

We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.

Want more?

For more Western Australian space news, and content checkout:

The Sky Tonight - Monthly Update | Scitech

WA science. Done different. | Particle (scitech.org.au)