The Cosmic Companion VIP Newsletter 7 September, 2021 - Kaitlyn Shin Teaches Us About Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)

CHIME member Kaitlyn Shin teaches us about fast radio bursts. Plus, seeing a new type of supernova, China talks about a spacecraft a kilometer long, and more!

Fast radio bursts, exploding stars, stars destroying planets, and a spacecraft as large as The Golden Gate Bridge!

What the Anasazi people saw as a “new star” long ago, we now know to be a supernova. Astronomers today have now witnessed a new type of supernova. Image credit: Hounddiggity/Flickr

Hello everyone!

This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome CHIME member Kaitlyn Shin to the show, and she's going to teach us about fast radio bursts coming from space. But first, we look at a new study showing that stars eating planets may be more common than we thought, a new type of supernova is seen by astronomers as a black hole or neutron star collides with its parent star, and China takes the first steps toward building a space station a kilometer long.

And… a brand-new adventure of Max on Mars!

Here’s tomorrow’s episode of the show, in an advance showing for our VIP subscribers: