Here we touch on some brief history and then go onto what kind of astronomy we are looking forward to in 2026 including the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, Artemis as well as the Pandora and Plato missions to find exoplanets.

Welcome to our last broadcast of 2025. We will be looking at the solstice this week and some of the ways it has been marked in the past as well as moon and venus landings and other current news.

Image : Heart O'Ireland - Cropped version of: File:Newgrange 053.jpg, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia commons

Tonight we discuss some fun history items, and of course the recent news about sugars and more on Bennu! The host is Dr. Elaina Hyde and we are joined by special guest Mahesh Aravamudan, a RASC Toronto Center member and astronomy enthusiast to investigate.

The allsky camera for AICO mentioned in this episode can be found at: https://www.yorku.ca/science/observatory/observers/

Image credit: Aview across asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and into space. The image was obtained on March 7, 2019, by the PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Welcome to our holiday show!

What was the star of Bethlehem?

What is a great gift for an astronomer?

Here we look at a few Mars related topics, including possible karstic (water eroded) caves and other findings around the solar systems.

Image (open access) from Ravi, Sharma et al 2025 APJL 993 L36

Tonight the Leonid meteor shower peaks. Here we look at the Leonids in detail as well as comets and Frank Drake.

Image: Leonid meteor storm of 1833 (Public Domain)

find out more about the observatory at https://www.yorku.ca/science/observatory/

Julie Tomé and Dr. Elaina Hyde discuss many satellites - most good, some bad! From Lunar Orbiter 2, San Marco 1, and Sputnik to giant space mirrors (shudder) and the JWST (hurray!), explore some of the history and news around satellites.

Podcast Image: AICO, Sunna Withers, Zena Khadour

Tune in to go back in time to Tycho's Supernova of 1572, the history of daylight savings time, and how our view of the Universe was revolutionized, twice! This week's host's Paul Mackin and Sunna Withers also discuss astronomy news, including Comet 3I/Atlas and the chaos of galaxies in the early Universe.