Look Up! January 2021

Look Up!

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomers Bryony and Patricia are here to tell you what to look out for in the night sky for the start of 2021 in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. As well as this, they discuss some recent astronomical news. Patricia discusses the sample return from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft while Bryony pays tribute to a fallen friend: the radio dish at Arecibo Observatory. Which of these do you find the most interesting? Head over to our twitter @ROGAstronomers and vote on our poll at the start of the month! Quick note: in this podcast Bryony repeatedly says that work from Arecibo Observatory has won multiple Nobel Prizes, which may be misleading; direct observations from Arecibo have only won a single Nobel Prize (and it was for the discovery of the first *binary pulsar, not first pulsar!), but many observations from Arecibo have pointed scientists to explore something that they might not otherwise, and those subsequent observations have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. Just wanted to make that clear as I realised that listening back it wasn't! Here is the link to our night sky highlights blog: www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/night…ghts-january-2021 Link to the Nobel Prize won directly thanks to observations from Arecibo Observatory: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1993/press-release/.