Star Trails: A Weekly Astronomy Podcast · Single Malt Sky

A Dark Sky for Us, and a New Moon for Uranus

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Walking on this tiny moon would not work traditionally; each step would be a little launch, feeling like spelunking on a giant trampoline in slow motion.

Host Drew guides listeners through the week's night sky events, highlighting planets and constellations, then delves into a fascinating thought experiment inspired by the recent discovery of a tiny new moon around Uranus. Using physics and imagination, he explores what it would actually be like to attempt to walk on this minuscule, low-gravity world.

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