Weekly Space Hangout – Sept. 5, 2014 – Summer Story Review!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter)
Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein)
Thad Szabo (@astrothad)
Matthew Francis (CosmoAcademy.org, @DrMRFrancis)
Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer)
This Week’s Stories:
Universe Today’s Guide to Space wins a Parsec Award
Is the Universe a hologram?
The Universe ain’t a hologram!!
Is the Milky Way part of a big supercluster?
NASA renews all planetary missions; criticizes Curiosity
Rosetta Roundup
Accurate distance to the Pleiades
pp-chain neutrinos observed from Sun
Clusters, or SUPER Clusters
From Pebbles to Planets
DragonCon!
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