We're live from the 10th birthday celebrations for the University of York's Astrocampus, Emily's home turf and all-round fabulous teaching and outreach space. Emily fields some amazing questions from kids and adults attending the event, and gives some of Astrocampus's highlights and achievements over the past decade, as well as some plans for the future!

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After some lengthy follow-up (the Bennu sample is open at last! And SLIM is alive!), Emily investigates possibly the most podcasty story we’ve had on the show: six planets around distant star HD110067, all locked into resonances that play beautiful music. Turns out if you leave a planetary system alone for long enough, gravity tends to pull everything into simple harmonies. Maybe our own solar system has a song to sing in the far future?

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

• The Bennu asteroid sample is open!

• JAXA SLIM updates

• First SLIM images

• Sextuplet symphony: The Nature paper

• A good article about the discovery

• Blog post by Dr Hugh Osborn with exoplanet music video

• Trappist-1 system

• Orbital resonances

• Multiple star systems

• JWST finds methane in exoplanet atmosphere

• A breathless headline

Emily and Chris tune in to JAXA’s livestream of SLIM — the Smart Lander for Investigating and Moon — as it attempted to slick the landing on the lunar surface on Friday 19 January 2023. We were prepared for success and champagne, or failure and lessons-learned. What we didn’t expect was … ambiguity, uncertainty and WE ARE STILL CHECKING THE STATUS SO PLEASE WAIT. Did SLIM and its fabulous little transformer rovers make it to the Moon OK or not?! Join us for all the anticipation, the wonder, and the confusion in this special syzygy episode.

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

On the web: syzygy.fm | Instagram & Threads: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

• JAXA’s SLIM mission

• YouTube livestream recording and press conference

• Update article from 3 days later

• Mission success!

• The SLIM Rovers LEM 1 and LEM 2

• Buy your own LEM-2 rover! (Or buy us one, we’d love you forever!)

• Upcoming missions to the Moon

• India’s Chandrayaan-3 landing

• Israel’s failed moon landing

• Moss Piglets on the Moon?