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Podcast: SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
Episode: 58: The Birth of Our Milky Way Galaxy
Description: The astronomy and space science news podcast.Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly). SpaceTime 20190809 Series 22 Episode 58 *The birth of our Milky Way galaxyAstronomers have opened a new window on the birth of the Milky Way finding the galaxy we have today was formed out of the collision of two major components ten billion years ago. *LightSail-2 successfully demonstrates solar sail space flightAfter years of computer simulations and countless ground tests -- the Planetary Society’s crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft has successfully demonstrated spaceflight by light -- raising its orbit solely on the power of sunlight. *Sky...