Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: S03E227
Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your daily dose of cosmic wonders and astronomical insights. I'm your host, Steve Dunkley, and today we dive deep into the captivating realms of Jupiter's celestial dynamics and the enigmatic mysteries of ultramassive black holes.
Highlights:
- Jupiter's Spectacular Opposition : Uncover the details of Jupiter's recent opposition in Taurus, making it a prime target for skywatchers. Explore its fascinating features, including the Great Red Spot and its dynamic cloud tops, visible through both binoculars and telescopes.
- Galilean Moons Dance: Discover the eternal dance of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and learn how to observe their transits and phenomena with ease.
- Ultramassive Black Holes : Delve into the awe-inspiring realm of ultramassive black holes, with Phoenix A and Ton 618 leading the pack. Learn about the latest research from Yale University on the growth and limits of these cosmic giants.
- Solar Cycle Insights : Explore the intriguing solar cycle and the upcoming "battle zone" phase, which could impact Earth-orbiting satellites and geomagnetic activity. Understand the significance of the Sun's 11-year and 22-year cycles and the role of Hale cycle bands.
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✍️ Episode References
Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
Phoenix Cluster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster
Tonin Syntla 618
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_618
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 welcome again to astronomy daily it is
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00:00:15 --> 00:00:17 dun hello again I'm Steve Dunley your
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00:00:22 --> 00:00:25 with here's hie great to be here again I
00:00:25 --> 00:00:27 hope you found a couple of tasty stories
00:00:27 --> 00:00:30 oh I think I found one or two and I
00:00:30 --> 00:00:31 thought we might double up on one of the
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00:00:33 --> 00:00:34 putting in a special showing that would
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00:00:36 --> 00:00:38 December wouldn't it that's right but
00:00:38 --> 00:00:40 Jupiter is so interesting I thought we'd
00:00:40 --> 00:00:42 do a bit of an extended story that
00:00:42 --> 00:00:44 sounds Nifty yes it is Nifty so what
00:00:44 --> 00:00:46 else is on the menu well it's normally
00:00:46 --> 00:00:48 me that's asking you that but you've
00:00:48 --> 00:00:50 been off working with Anna all week on
00:00:50 --> 00:00:52 her shows haven't you well she's
00:00:52 --> 00:00:54 prolific she's like a machine uh well I
00:00:54 --> 00:00:56 wasn't going to say anything is that an
00:00:56 --> 00:01:00 AI joke no no no yes no no no just you
00:01:00 --> 00:01:02 know observing she works so hard yes
00:01:02 --> 00:01:03 listeners will know that she does the
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00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 argument from me and someone has to run
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00:01:11 --> 00:01:14 than you hie I do too you do too you and
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 Anna make a great team now Hy can I ask
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 you uh I know we had a couple of other
00:01:19 --> 00:01:21 stories here you had my running sheet
00:01:21 --> 00:01:23 can you see it you had one about massive
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00:01:26 --> 00:01:28 yes black holes who doesn't like black
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00:01:40 --> 00:01:42 go Jupiter reached its long- awaited
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00:01:52 --> 00:01:54 been 12 years since Jupiter was this
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00:01:57 --> 00:02:01 January 10th 2026 in Gemini is equally
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00:02:05 --> 00:02:07 2025 Jupiter blaz is brightly marking it
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 out as an unmistakable object outshining
00:02:10 --> 00:02:11 by some distance all the stars in the
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00:02:13 --> 00:02:16 Sirus Jupiter offers an oblate disc some
00:02:16 --> 00:02:19 48.1 AR seconds across substantially
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00:02:21 --> 00:02:23 than twice the size of Venus this month
00:02:23 --> 00:02:25 the only planet that can appear larger
00:02:25 --> 00:02:28 on opposition night Jupiter Rises at
00:02:28 --> 00:02:30 3:45 p.m. grenwich meantime from London
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00:02:40 --> 00:02:43 further northwards in the UK night owls
00:02:43 --> 00:02:45 will be able to observe Jupiter until at
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00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 Cloud tops by the end of the year
00:02:55 --> 00:02:57 Jupiter remains above 30° in elevation
00:02:57 --> 00:03:00 from London between 5:30 p.m. to 2 2:30
00:03:00 --> 00:03:03 a.m. grab a pair of 10 x 50 binoculars
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00:03:07 --> 00:03:09 spans a very impressive 48.1 Arc seconds
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00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 also notice that Jupiter's Globe bulges
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00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 slower at Jovian latitudes above
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 15° one of Jupiter's Great appeals is
00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 its four bright Galilean moons IO Europa
00:03:30 --> 00:03:35 2 ganam 3 and Kalisto 4 since Galileo
00:03:35 --> 00:03:37 galile turned his primitive telescope
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00:03:40 --> 00:03:41 observers have been observing their
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00:03:44 --> 00:03:45 four moons are easy objects to see
00:03:45 --> 00:03:47 through a pair of 10 x 50 binoculars as
00:03:47 --> 00:03:49 they shine between fifth and sixth
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00:03:53 --> 00:03:56 its furthest east or west of the planet
00:03:56 --> 00:04:00 astronomy the buka and and while we're
00:04:00 --> 00:04:03 on the subject of Jupiter uh many of you
00:04:03 --> 00:04:05 may know that Jupiter doesn't present a
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00:04:36 --> 00:04:39 most prominent Jupiter's Speedy rotation
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00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 the whole of Jupiter's observable
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00:04:47 --> 00:04:49 single night this month Jupiter's Great
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00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 longlived anticyclonic storm that has
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00:05:01 --> 00:05:04 is not a permanently fixed feature is
00:05:04 --> 00:05:06 also visible down the decades it has
00:05:06 --> 00:05:08 been observed drifting steadily in
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00:05:14 --> 00:05:16 shrinking in the late 19th century it
00:05:16 --> 00:05:20 measured more than 40 km long along
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00:05:24 --> 00:05:27 1995 the Hubble Space Telescope images
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00:05:34 --> 00:05:37 it had shrunk to around 18 km and
00:05:37 --> 00:05:43 today it spans just over 15 km a 150
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00:05:47 --> 00:05:50 give a good view of the Great Red Spot
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00:05:52 --> 00:05:54 lucky to spot it through a smaller
00:05:54 --> 00:05:56 aperture telescope if you have good
00:05:56 --> 00:05:58 viewing conditions turn the telescope on
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00:06:00 --> 00:06:03 the exciting Moon events or phenomena
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00:06:05 --> 00:06:07 orbital planes coincide with the plane
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00:06:10 --> 00:06:13 on to our line of sight this way they
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15 can always be found within a narrow band
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00:06:33 --> 00:06:35 maximum tilt of its access of 3° to
00:06:36 --> 00:06:40 Earth it's around 2.6 de on December 10
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00:06:42 --> 00:06:44 late evening IO and its shadow are in
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00:07:13 --> 00:07:16 of Jupiter's brighter regions the small
00:07:16 --> 00:07:18 to medium aperture telescope in the 100
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00:08:22 --> 00:08:32 space space science and astronomy
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00:09:03 --> 00:09:05 black hole is tonen centla 618 located
00:09:05 --> 00:09:07 around a billion light years away with a
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00:09:18 --> 00:09:20 get scientists have long wondered this
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00:09:47 --> 00:09:49 scientists can investigate ultramassive
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00:09:51 --> 00:09:54 where these Cosmic big games roam Nutra
00:09:54 --> 00:09:56 Jun explained that one clue comes from
00:09:56 --> 00:09:57 the fact that the masses of central
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00:10:01 --> 00:10:03 within the galaxies that host them
00:10:04 --> 00:10:05 galaxies with more stars and thus
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00:10:10 --> 00:10:13 holes nran added this scaling relation
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00:10:55 --> 00:10:59 solar cycle experts warn solar maximum
00:10:59 --> 00:11:01 is is the period of the sun's roughly
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 11year solar cycle or Sunspot Cycle when
00:11:04 --> 00:11:07 the maximum of visible dark patches on
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00:11:24 --> 00:11:26 halfway through this period the sun's
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00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 active than scientists initially
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00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 experts confirmed that this was the case
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00:12:03 --> 00:12:04 weather prediction and solution company
00:12:04 --> 00:12:07 that formed earlier this year released a
00:12:07 --> 00:12:10 blog post explaining that a newly
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00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 as the Battle Zone will likely begin in
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00:12:22 --> 00:12:24 and vice president of linker space
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00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 is very real he said in addition to the
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 11-year Sunspot Cycle that most people
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00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 longer 22-year hail cycle which is the
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00:12:59 --> 00:13:01 large bands of magnetism known as hail
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00:13:09 --> 00:13:12 magnetic field a new band emerges in
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00:13:23 --> 00:13:27 solar Terminator event this means that
00:13:27 --> 00:13:29 during the first half of a sunspot s CLE
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00:13:40 --> 00:13:43 hemisphere the overlap of these giant
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00:13:46 --> 00:13:48 McIntosh explained when there is only
00:13:48 --> 00:13:50 one band in each hemisphere there is a
00:13:50 --> 00:13:52 magnetic imbalance across the Sun with
00:13:52 --> 00:13:54 weaker magnetic fields near the equator
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00:14:06 --> 00:14:09 added eventually over a few years as the
00:14:09 --> 00:14:12 bands March towards the Equator the
00:14:12 --> 00:14:15 imbalance progressively decreases until
00:14:15 --> 00:14:23 the sun can't make any more
00:14:23 --> 00:14:25 sunspots and there we have it hie a
00:14:25 --> 00:14:29 bumper Jupiter black hole edition of
00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 astronomy daily well that's how it
00:14:31 --> 00:14:32 turned out we never know what
00:14:32 --> 00:14:34 interesting stories are going to show up
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00:14:36 --> 00:14:37 right a little bit of this a little bit
00:14:38 --> 00:14:39 of that something new every day and I
00:14:40 --> 00:14:41 like that story about the sun's 11year
00:14:42 --> 00:14:44 and 22-year cycles and the hail bands
00:14:44 --> 00:14:46 and sunspots oh you like that one hi so
00:14:46 --> 00:14:48 interesting and researchers are
00:14:48 --> 00:14:50 discovering so much more about the Sun
00:14:50 --> 00:14:52 every year the sun is more complex than
00:14:52 --> 00:14:54 it looks that reminds me hie I was
00:14:54 --> 00:14:56 almost in a band called The sunspots
00:14:56 --> 00:14:58 really really really that's really out
00:14:58 --> 00:15:00 there their favorite human yep how did
00:15:00 --> 00:15:02 it go oh we burned out almost
00:15:02 --> 00:15:05 immediately so no 11-year cycle for you
00:15:05 --> 00:15:07 guys not even a week of rehearsals for
00:15:07 --> 00:15:10 that one I'm afraid hie oh well too bad
00:15:10 --> 00:15:12 yep that's the way it goes say good
00:15:12 --> 00:15:15 night human good night human
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