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The Discussion:
- Jeni Nearly joined a cult
- Farewell to Carolyn Shoemaker
- The Room of Doom at Redditch Astronomical Society
- The new updated Sky Guide app (that Jen works on)
- Listeners' emails on how annoying we are and nebulae
The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in September, we have:
- A new classification of habitable exoplanets
- Astronomers find thousands of new galaxies
- Red Dwarf stars might not be as hostile to life as previously thought
- Have we found a new spiral arm to the Milky Way?
- Why last year's Comet ATLAS wasn't the comet of a generation
The Sky Guide: This month we're taking a look at the constellation of Aquarius with a guide to its history, how to find it, a couple of deep sky objects and a round-up of the solar system views on offer in September.
Q&A: Why is the CMB microwave light still visible if it was first emitted 13billion-ish years ago? From our good friend Graeme Durden of Kent in the UK.
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