E291 - Japan's Daring Mars Moon Mission, Missing Black Holes & the First Ever Green Star

This week on Kalam Astro, host Alya Al-Nuaimi takes you on a thrilling tour of the cosmos — from a daring Japanese mission heading to the moons of Mars, to a call for YOUR help in one of astronomy's greatest hunts, to gemstones hiding in an alien sky, and a star so strange it could only be described as a cosmic zombie!

First up — Japan is doing something no space agency has ever attempted before. The MMX mission (Martian Moons eXploration), led by JAXA, is on its way to Phobos — one of Mars' two tiny, mysterious moons. But this i...