Categories: Weekly Space Hangout

Weekly Space Hangout – Nov. 14, 2014: Holy Rosetta! We Landed on a Comet!

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)

Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter)
Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein)
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba)

This Week’s Stories:

Dark Matter Black Holes?
Lick Observatory
Rosetta/Philae update
Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere
Rogue Stars Outside Galaxies May Be Everywhere
MUSE Reveals True Story Behind Galactic Crash
CERN Particle May Not Actually Be Higgs Boson
Astronomers Dissect the aftermath of a Supernova
Google to Take Over Much of Moffett Field, Restore Hangar One
Follow the Dust to Find Planets
The Singing Comet
Jupiter’s Red Spot is Likely a Sunburn, Not a Blush
Depth of Biggest Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Measured by NASA Probe
ALMA Finds Best Evidence Yet for Galactic Merger in Distant Protocluster
Orion on the Pad: NASA Rolls Out Space Capsule for 1st Test Flight
Vatican Astronomer Wins Top Science Prize
X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory
Wake Up, Pluto Spacecraft! New Horizons Emerges From Nap Next Month
The Answer is Blowing in the Intergalactic Wind

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Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast with Dr. Pamela Gay. Here's a link to my Mastodon account.

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