Is Pluto a planet again?! Plus JWST updates | Night Sky News January 2022

Catch Jupiter this month before it disappears from our skies for a few months. Plus catch up on the latest with the James Webb Space Telescope and find out why Pluto might get reclassified as a planet once more!

Where is Webb? - https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
More info on the JWST - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ZlqWp7620
AAS press releases: https://aas.org/meetings/aas239/2nd-media-advisory#program
MaNGA sample mosaic: https://www.picturemosaics.com/photo-mosaic-tool/share/id/M1151686/p/p0
MaNGA survey data access: https://dr15.sdss.org/marvin/
Metzger et al. (2022; moons are planets) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103521004206

For all my night sky views I use the free to download astronomy software Stellarium: https://stellarium.org/
00:00 - Introduction
00:41 - Orion in the winter sky
01:29 - Winter hexagon
02:22 - Orion Nebula
02:53 - Jupiter: catch it before it's gone
03:43 - Venus & Mars in early morning sky (plus toenail moon)
05:12 - Mercury joins the party
06:07 - JWST mirror update
11:57 - Why does JWST orbit L2?
13:51 - MaNGA galaxy survey public data release
15:54 - AAS 239 Space Press Releases
16:19 - Should Pluto and all the moons of the Solar System be planets?!
23:33 - Outro
24:04 - Bloopers

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