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Dr. Becky | The Fastest Growing Black Hole Ever Found

In this month's Night Sky News we're chatting all about how you can watch the total solar eclipse on the 8th April 2024 across Mexico, the USA, and & Canada, the importance of the space exploration milestone of Intuitive Machines and their Odysseus lander on the Moon, the hard decision NSF faces on whether to continue to fund the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii or the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, and the fastest growing supermassive black hole that's ever been found!

00:00 Intro

01:04 Mercury @ Greatest Eastern Elongation with Jupiter (24th March)

02:29 Saturn returns with Mars + Toenail Moon! (6th Apr)

03:32 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE! (North America, 8th April)

06:08 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (24th March)

06:39 Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks update!

08:41 Ground News

10:27 NASA Space Telescope Live

11:25 Odysseus IM-1 Moon landing

14:31 NSF given ultimatum to choose either TMT or GMT

20:51 NASA must cut budget to Chandra X-Ray Observatory

21:54 Fastest growing SMBH ever found!

30:09 Conclusion

31:21 Bloopers

Dr Becky Smethurst
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