Episode 292
Strange Lightning and the Youngest Planet
Walkabout the Galaxy · Joshua Colwell
August 17, 202246m 13s
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Show Notes
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.