The James Webb telescope and the origin of stars.

0:00 Speaker 1 Was this today is Steve Kates, otherwise known as Doctor Sky, and he takes our Sunday mornings and make makes them a little bit brighter. And well, Steve, tell us what’s going on in the skies today.

0:15 Speaker 2 Well, good morning, John, We’re happy May to everybody out there. Here’s a couple of interesting stories and I think an outstanding mystery of the week to come. We’ll talk about the James Webb Telescope again. John. It’s actually finding organic compounds in space like ethanol, alcohol, acetic acid, and many other compounds swirling around protostars in the evolution of space.

0:37 It’s just totally amazing what this multi billion dollar spacecraft is doing. And it’s so amazing John, that we’re finding things even as strange. How about this as a lonely planet out in deep space with no star around it, eighty light years away, six times the size of Jupiter.

0:55 Doesn’t the stuff just get more interesting as we continue to explore it?

0:59 Speaker 1 Is Zach part of our Solar system?

1:02 Speaker 2 Not at all. This is way out in deep space. This is like the first time an individual planet. Imagine that way out we’re talking about eighty light years away and these objects are discovered by the high technology, not only of James Webb but other telescopes. But what’s odd about it, John, is how does the thing even survive

1:22 if it’s a planetary object most planets, of course, or around stars. So that’s a really strange one, don’t you think. I do think that’s strange.

1:30 Speaker 1 I mean it’s I mean, there’s so many things going on out there that we have no clue about.

1:36 Speaker 2 But Will, yeah, well, here’s something even more interesting. You and I love to talk about. Mars. Well, here’s something maybe people do not know. Dust Storms on Earth we know can be major problems. Out here in Arizona where I am. We get them in the summer they’re pretty bad.

1:52 But John, on Mars, they tend to be global dust storms. Every three martian years. Mars gets these than electrical storms with winds maybe higher than seventy miles an hour due to the lower pressure on the planet. But the dust on Mars, they say, gets into everything. It’s like a magnet.

2:11 So spacecraft get covered, their’s solar panels. And obviously they even have something even more bizarre, John, they have these large dust devils, like little tornadoes. Let’s sail all around this amazing planet. That hopefully someday humans will be able to explore and never know, maybe a future habitat for humanity since maybe we all can’t get along here on

2:32 planet number three.

2:33 Speaker 1 Let’s say you, well, that’s I think it’s too far into the future to even consider it, not in our lifetime.

2:43 Speaker 2 Well, John, here’s the mystery of the week. Now, this one’s fascinating. You and I talk many times about navigation maps and how did they even know what the world look like? But here it is. The question is that how is longitude determined? And who solved the problem? Well, the Greek scientists have Parkos, as many might know, was

3:00 one of the first to specify a coordinate system like latitude and longitude. But how did ships determine longitude at sea? Latitude at sea could be determined with the use of the sextn we know that, But John, longitude requires very accurate clocks, and there were none available in the early seventeen hundreds. So enter British carpenter lockmaker clock builder called

3:22 a horologist, John Harrison, who responded to the British Longitude Act of seventeen fourteen to prevent sailors from using what they call dead reckoning or guessing where they were going. So Harrison to book John four clocks, but his best was known as the Age four, a clock with accuracy losing not but a few minutes over time. And he

3:43 was looking at a prize. He didn’t do it for the money of twenty thousand pounds was offered to the winner of this contest, but he never got the full amount. So I find it fascinating. So the determined longitude, it’s the time difference between Greenwich time and the time at sea with an act clock. So today GPS obviously takes

4:03 out the complexity of that. But John, isn’t that amazing. Here’s a guy who was a carpenter and a clockmaker, I hate to use the word amateur clock builder. Look what he did and he helped solve that problem. So now sailors could go and know where they were on the Earth because the Earth turned fifteen degrees an hour.

4:22 That’s to me an amazing mystery of the week, don’t you think?

4:25 Speaker 1 Yes it is. I mean, anything new to moon now you can always They are saying what were they saying last week, Steve? They were saying that they wanted must have put down a satellite a ship next to where the Apollo ended.

4:48 Speaker 2 Well, John, I mentioned this with Frank on the other side of Midnight.

4:52 Speaker 1 I must have been listening there you go.

4:55 Speaker 2 No, this is interesting. I’m saying there’s nothing really too new to report on it. But here’s my hope and probably a lot of other people. Anybody out there that deaths that we went to the Moon. It looks like, you know, Musk is the leader in sending spacecraft. Send this HYE technology four K eight K spacecraft. Just land

5:11 it there and that’s once and for all. Let’s see what buf Aldron described the flag fell over when they took off, and all the other things there that would be fascinating. But John, I don’t know why they haven’t done it yet. That’s that’s kind of bizarre. We haven’t been able to do that, or nobody’s been pushing that.

5:27 So maybe that’s a message that’s coming out through this particular show, the Cat’s Roundtable. Maybe Elon’s listening. What do you think you never know?

5:35 Speaker 1 I mean we do have a lot of listeners, and any any other anything else we should look out for it.

5:41 Speaker 2 This week, well we talk about the live sky John tonight, think of the Mayo Day of course for many. But tonight, if you look into the southeast sky after midnight into Monday morning, a meteor shower, cold the acquerrence, you probably get to see ten or fifteen and dark skies. But it’s all part of Halley’s comet. If you never got

5:59 to see in nineteen eighty six, and that’s an interesting thing. But updates John always at WABC radio dot com with our popular Doctor Sky Experience podcast where we give you all the fine details of what you can see in our skies and always talk about American exceptionalism, John on the other subjects about truth, justice in the American way.

6:19 It’s always a privileged to be with you and the many listeners around the nation in the world on the catch round Table.

6:25 Speaker 1 Thank you Steve Kates, and we’ll catch up with you again will so thank you so much.

6:29 Speaker 2 Thank you, John