91.5 KRCC's Looking Up / Looking Up: South Side Of The Sky

Description

This week on Looking Up we're bound for a star that's 50 light years from home. Deep in our southern skies, in the constellation Centarus lies a dead star 50 light-years away from the Earth. V886 Centauri is at first glance an ordinary white dwarf. But it is more than it appears .

Subtitle: This week on Looking Up we're bound for a star that's 50 light years from home. Deep in our southern skies, in the constellation Centarus lies a dead star 50 light-years away from the Earth. V886 Centauri is at first glance an ordinary white dwarf. But it
Duration: 90
Publishing date: 2019-05-20 14:00
Link: https://www.krcc.org/post/looking-south-side-sky
Contributors: Bruce Bookout; author
Enclosures: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/krcc/audio/2019/05/looking_up_5-20-19.mp3; audio/mpeg