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Series Title
Walkabout the Galaxy
Keywords
lightning; age of galaxies; James Webb Space Telescope
Disciplines
Astrophysics and Astronomy | Physics
Description
Lightning generally goes cloud to cloud or cloud to ground, but sometimes it shoots up to the ionosphere at the edge of space. We take a close look at strange lightning with lightning trivia. A baby star system in our own galaxy appears to be making a giant planet that’s less than two million years old, while the ages of distant galaxies observed by JWST are now a controversy. Catch up with us on all the latest and greatest space news and discoveries.
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© Joshua Colwell, All Rights Reserved
Date Created
8-17-2022
Item Type
Podcast
Type
article
Length of Episode
46:13
Recommended Citation
Colwell, Joshua; Dove, Adrienne; and Sargeant, Hannah, "Strange Lightning and the Youngest Planet" (2022). Walkabout the Galaxy Podcast. 215.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/walkaboutthegalaxy/215
