We're going to the MOON!

This episode Alyshia and Leon discuss the exciting Artemis II launch returning humans to the moon. Space fails include the Cancellation of Mars Sample Return, an Indian Polar Satelite Rocket Explodes taking 14 satellites with it - oops! Alyshia's brain breaks and Leon received yet ANOTHER spam call during recording.

Night sky - Jupiter, Canis Minor.

Space Pics

Artemis II Movie Poster

https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/missions/webb/science/2026/01/STScI-01KCMATAPPC5QXWSD5BM6VRT9M.png

Space pictures

Alyshia - James Webb Helix Nebula

1. https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/missions/webb/science/2026/01/STScI-01KCMATAPPC5QXWSD5BM6VRT9M.png
2. Comparison Video - https://youtu.be/F3nm9oUggrE?si=kz2KmS17NrSGO72w

Leon - Crawler Preps for Artemis II Rollout.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-crawler-preps-for-artemis-ii-rollout/

Mars Sample Return Video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9G36CDLzIg&t=1s

Australian of the Year

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/25/astronaut-katherine-bennell-pegg-named-australian-of-the-year-for-2026

Happy New Year!

This month, join the Please Look Up team for this special episode of reflection - looking back on our favourite moments from the year of 2025.

Leon and Alyshia will be back in February well rested and ready to return to regular space news programming.

But fear not! We wouldn't leave you without your monthly dose of space news. If you want to read about what's happening in the night sky in January, check out the latest 'The Sky Tonight,' on the Particle website.

Just click this link: WA science. Done different. | Particle

Join Leon and Alyshia in a look through the December night sky.

Enjoy the last faint glimpses of the milky way for the year and cast your eyes instead on Jupiter which is shining brightly this month. If you whip out a telescope you may even be able to see Saturn and Neptune to add to your planet tally! And Pisces gives you your monthly dose of mythological family shenanigans.

As for space news, the New Glenn rocket investigates Mars’ “absolutely spaghetti mess piss-weak magnetic field.”

Important dates this month!

December 5th - Super Full Moon

December 14th - Geminids Meteor Shower

December 21 - Summer Solstice

To see the space pictures of the month:

Alyshia's

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Leon's

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Join Leon and guest host Alyshia as they rocket into the November night sky and explore all the latest space news including:

• Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No... it's a supermoon!
• Grab a mirror because November is the best month to look at Uranus.
• Leon's namesake meteor shower.
• It's raining space junk, but has anyone ever been hit by it?
• How Leon broke Scitech.

Enjoy, and we'll see you next month to talk about the night sky in December.

If you're at all interested in the pictures discussed throughout this audio medium, you can find them here:

Lottie Williams

Alyshia's space pictures of the month: Image 1 Image 2

What's up this month?

The October sky is just like Leon's resting heart rate... chill as hell.

There's still stuff to see though! The milky way, triangles (like, official ones, not just three random stars connected), meteors and not to mention it's the best time of year to see Mercury!

Additionally, Leon and guest host Alyshia embark on side quests including but not limited to alleged alien sightings, menstruating in space and coming up with the worst puns possible.

This episode contains

Sexual References

Coarse Language viewer discretion advised

Morgan joins Leon this episode, & asks all the hard hitting (not silly) questions.

Theres a Total Eclipse of the Blood Moon to look out for. The oddly named Scutum is the constellation of the month & UY Scuti could swallow our entire solar system.

Recapping the epic National Science week Mission Space project. Celebrating 10 years since the discovery of gravitational waves, listening to the ancient sounds of the universe & how we found a vintage playboy magazine containing a question about .... space junk?!

For more space stuff check out Leon's Monthly Blog "The Sky Tonight"

https://www.scitech.org.au/explore/the-sky-tonight/

The Night Sky!

Stuff we will see: It's all about the Milkyway in August (just look up!)

Stuff we won't see: Southern Hemisphere misses out on the Perseid meteor shower (lucky you if you're in the north!)

Planets: Jupiter and Venus get close and personal in the morning of the 12th & 13th August. Something something optics, physics.

Constellation of the Month: Norma - The Set Square.

Beth gets constellation bias thinking about Norma and it's lack of greek mythology, but there's something mysterious hiding out there just beyond our view. called "the great attractor."

Star Stories: Earth & it's many meanings to many peoples.

Space Fail of the Month: An Artemis Rocket Booster went BOOM!

Space Picture of the Month:

- Beth - NASA Apollo mission patches https://particle.scitech.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/7995383large-1.jpg

- Leon - Solid Rocket Boosters

https://particle.scitech.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/boosterstar.png

Space Flight Focus: Gilmore Space - Eris 1 (Recorded before it launched and will feature more in our September episode)

More space stuff:

https://www.scitech.org.au/explore/the-sky-tonight/

Science news from WA:

WA science. Done different. | Particle