# The Sun's Hidden Face Mapped, A Galaxy That Forgot to Spin | Plus Weekend Wrap Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/the-sun-s-hidden-face-mapped-a-galaxy-that-forgot-to-spin-plus-weekend-wrap Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/the-sun-s-hidden-face-mapped-a-galaxy-that-forgot-to-spin-plus-weekend-wrap.md Podcast: [Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates](https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676) Published: 2026-05-09T10:30:03+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spacenutspodcast.com Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/track/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71935826/the_sun_s_hidden_face_mapped_a_galaxy_that_forgot_to_spin_plus_weekend_wrap.mp3 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/the-sun-s-hidden-face-mapped-a-galaxy-that-forgot-to-spin-plus-weekend-wrap Duration seconds: 874 ## Resource Sponsor Link When your ready to upgrade your digital security online, do what we did and get the best - NordVPN . And right now you can save a heap of money and help support the show. For details on the full deal CLICK HERE Astronomy Daily — S05E98 | Weekend Wrap | May 9, 2026 Welcome to the Astronomy Daily Weekend Space & Astronomy News Wrap! Every Saturday, Anna and Avery bring you a roundup of the biggest stories from the past week in space and astronomy — plus two fresh stories to open the show. Here's what we covered this week: Fresh Stories 🌞 The Sun's Hidden Face Finally Gets a Full Read-Out For 25 years, helioseismology has let scientists detect sunspot groups forming on the Sun's far side — but not their magnetic polarity, the key factor in forecasting how dangerous an eruption might be. A new technique developed by the National Solar Observatory's GONG network changes that, enabling polarity-resolved magnetic maps of the Sun's hidden hemisphere for the first time. With a significant far-side flare firing just days ago, the real-world stakes couldn't be clearer. Published in Scientific Reports. 🌀 Webb Finds an Ancient Galaxy That Simply Refuses to Spin James Webb has spotted XMM-VID1-2075, a massive galaxy formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang that shows no rotation — a trait normally reserved for much older, evolved systems. Current theory says young galaxies should still be spinning. This one isn't. The UC Davis-led team is now searching for similar objects to understand how rare this truly is. Published in Nature Astronomy. Weekly Wrap — The Four Biggest Stories 🪐 The Planetary Odd Couple That Defies the Rules 190 light-years away, a hot Jupiter and a mini-Neptune are orbiting the same star — an arrangement once thought nearly impossible,… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/the-sun-s-hidden-face-mapped-a-galaxy-that-forgot-to-spin-plus-weekend-wrap/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/the-sun-s-hidden-face-mapped-a-galaxy-that-forgot-to-spin-plus-weekend-wrap.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.