The Cosmic Companion VIP Newsletter June 28, 2021 - Discovering Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein with Pedro Bernardinelli and Alyssa Mills Talks Ganymede

We talk with the astronomer who first found a monster comet headed our way, Alyssa Mills teaches us about Ganymede, the latest on Hubble, and more!

We have a pair of amazing guests this week, as we discover Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein with Dr. Pedro Bernardinelli, and explore new findings about Ganymede with Alyssa Mills.

This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we visit with Alyssa Mills. She is a graduate student at the University of Alabama, and we talk about her work studying the largest moon in the Solar System – Ganymede. We also visit with Pedro Bernardinelli, the astronomer who recently found the largest comet ever seen — Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein — and it is coming our way.

We also look in on the Hubble Space Telescope, which is still out of operation, following a computer failure. And, we learn details about Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein before talking with the astronomer who first found this massive iceberg in space. Finally, we learn about a new study showing which nearby exoplanets are the most-likely places from which to find life on Earth, before we explore Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede with ast…