{"podcast":{"title":"Astronomy Daily: Latest Space News","slug":"astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676","podcast_index_feed_id":5658676,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5648921/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.astronomydaily.io","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3ef2bb90b641d3f09a10b0a281912ff3.jpg","author":"bitesz.com","episode_count":901,"summary":"Join hosts Anna and Avery for daily Space & Astronomy news, insights, and discoveries . Give us 20 minutes and we'll give you the Universe! For more visit, our website and sign up for the free daily newsletter and check out our continually updated newsfeed. http://astronomydaily.io . Follow us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and TikTok ...just search for AstroDailyPod . Enjoy! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-latest-space-news--5648921/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T16:18:05.091830+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676"},"episode":{"title":"Starfall Takes Flight, Roman Telescope Arrives, and Dark Matter's New Secrets Unveiled","slug":"starfall-takes-flight-roman-telescope-arrives-and-dark-matter-s-new-secrets-unveiled","published_at":"2026-06-23T13:15:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/starfall-takes-flight-roman-telescope-arrives-and-dark-matter-s-new-secrets-unveiled","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676","url":"http://astronomydaily.io","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/track/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72650166/starfall_takes_flight_roman_telescope_arrives_and_dark_matter_s_new_secrets_unveiled.mp3","summary":"Episode Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2026 Runtime: Approximately 18–22 minutes Hosts: Anna and Avery Story Sources & Further Reading STORY 1 — SpaceX Starfall Demo SpaceX launches Starfall Demo mission (June 23, 2026) — SpaceX.com / Space.com / Gizmodo FAA Environmental Assessment for Starfall reentry vehicle operations STORY 2 — Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope NASA Science: 'NASA's Next Generation Telescope Arrives in Florida Ahead of Launch' (June 21, 2026) Spaceflight Now / Discover Magazine — Roman arrives at KSC (June 22, 2026) STORY 3 — JWST & XLSSC 122 IPAC/Caltech: 'New JWST Images of XLSSC 122 Open Up the Cosmic Noon Frontier' (presented AAS 248, June 17, 2026) Finner et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2026) — three-paper series on XLSSC 122 STORY 4 — Galactic Centre Excess List, Rodd et al., Physical Review Letters (2026): 'Energy Distribution of the Galactic Center Excess's Sources' Phys.org: 'Dark matter cannot be ruled out as cause of gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center' (June 17, 2026) STORY 5 — Swift Observatory / LINK Space.com: 'No one thought it was going to be possible' — NASA Swift Boost mission briefing (June 17–20, 2026) WRAL.com: 'Teaching a robot to rescue a space telescope' — LINK mission detail STORY 6 — Tianwen-2 / Kamoʻoalewa SpaceNews: 'Tianwen-2 makes series of burns on approach to asteroid' (June 14, 2026) Scientific American: 'China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft will soon grab samples from a quasi-moon of Earth' Nature Communications: Pengfei Zhang et al. — Kamoʻoalewa composition study (June 2, 2026) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-latest-space-news--5648921/support . Sponsor Details: Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN . To get our special listener deal and save…","meta_description":"Episode Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2026 Runtime: Approximately 18–22 minutes Hosts: Anna and Avery Story Sources & Further Reading STORY 1 — SpaceX Starfa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1088,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/starfall-takes-flight-roman-telescope-arrives-and-dark-matter-s-new-secrets-unveiled/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/starfall-takes-flight-roman-telescope-arrives-and-dark-matter-s-new-secrets-unveiled.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}