The first science result from Perseverance on Mars! | Night Sky News March 2021

Everything to look out for in the sky in the next month, plus everything that's been happening in space news in the past month. From Perseverance's first science result on Mars, neutrinos from a star spaghettified around a black hole, the merger of the Milky Way's and Andromeda's supermassive black holes and the rare fireball meteor that lit up the UK skies.

Scroll through over 7000 raw images from the Mars Perseverance mission here: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/

Stein et al. (2021; neutrinos from a TDE - open access version) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05340.pdf
Schiavi et al. (2021; the merger of supermassive black holes) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.10938.pdf

00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Mars, Moon & Aldeberan
01:14 - Shortest sunsets at the equinox
02:55 - Jupiter, Saturn & Toenail Moon
04:28 - Dione the Toenail Moon
04:58 - Perseverance's first science result
10:05 - A neutrino from a spaghettified star?
12:46 - The merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda's black holes
15:36 - UK fireball meteor!

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