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In this month’s Night Sky News episode we’re chatting about the future of Voyager 2 after NASA briefly lost communications with it this month, plus how JWST has found evidence for water vapour very close in around a star still forming rocky planets, which has huge implications for how we think Earth got its water. Plus, we chat about everything you should look out for in the night sky this month. Pop the champagne because it’s Saturn’s time to shine! My previous Night Sky News with details on seeing the Perseids Meteor Shower - https://youtu.be/LQSN7NDLi9s My video with tips for taking pictures of the night sky with your phone - https://youtu.be/ToN15U6dy1Q My video on the Euclid Space Telescope - https://youtu.be/JFAB1MhYGyc My video on the most distant star Earendel - https://youtu.be/VChgsXbIgdw My video on JWST's observations of Earendel - https://youtu.be/ZXbtBrbk3co Chae (2023; GAIA evidence for a modified theory of gravity) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace101/pdf Ilie, Paulin & Freese (2023; JWST claims of dark matter stars) - https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2305762120 Ring nebula JWST proposal 1558 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/1558.pdf Frye et al. (2023; mass of the El ***** cluster) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acd929/pdf Kamieneski et al. (2023; SFR of the “fishhook” lens in the El ***** JWST cluster image) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.05054v2.pdf Diego et al. (2023; new lensed star in the El ***** cluster JWST image) - https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2023/04/aa45238-22.pdf Carleton et al. (2023; ultra-low density galaxies in the El ***** JWST cluster image) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04726v2.pdf Perotti et al. (2023; JWST finds water in proto-planetary disk) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06317-9 Keppler et al. (2018; first planet found round PDS70) - https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2018/09/aa32957-18.pdf Haffert et al. (2023; second planet found around PDS70) - https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01EVSQTW8CGEY91TYJ8EZPJYZW.pdf MIRI proto-planetary disk JWST survey proposal 1282 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/1282.pdf Voyager mission status page - https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ NASA Deep Space Network status page - https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html 00:00 Intro 00:19 Episode Preview 01:31 New Moon + Milky Way this weekend! 02:46 Perseids continues! 02:59 Mars + Moon pair up 18/19th Aug 03:32 Saturn Opposition! 26/27th Aug 04:55 Moon + Saturn 30th Aug 05:31 Blue Supermoon 31 Aug 06:40 Moon + Jupiter 4th Sep 07:45 Euclid launch & drama 09:33 Ring Nebula JWST 11:52 JWST El ***** 13:36 PDS70 20:00 Voyager 2 26:06 Conclusion Video edited by Jonny Hyman: https://www.youtube.com/@theHumanVerse Video filmed on a Sony \u237a7 IV --- \ud83d\udcda My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky --- \ud83d\udcda "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: https://geni.us/jNcrw --- \ud83d\udc55 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): https://dr-becky.teemill.com/ --- \ud83c\udfa7 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive --- \ud83d\udd14 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video! --- \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffd‍\ud83d\udcbb I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars. http://drbecky.uk.com https://rebeccasmethurst.co.uk