Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: This week we welcome Dr. Bradley M. Peterson, whose research is directed towards determination of the physical nature of active galactic nuclei.
Guests:
Jolene Creighton (@jolene723 / fromquarkstoquasars.com)
Charles Black (@charlesblack / sen.com/charles-black)
Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein / briankoberlein.com)
Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com)
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
This Week’s Stories:
Get an Astronaut’s-Eye View of SpaceX’s Dragon Launch Abort Test
NASA Presses on With SLS Development as Launch Vehicle Undergoes Critical Design Review
“Beautiful Mind” Mathematician, Wife Die in Crash
#TWiM: Elon Musk Created His Own Grade School for the Children of SpaceX Employees
#TWiM: SpaceX Falcon 9 Certified for Military Launches
Third ESO Astronomy Camp for Secondary School Students
NASA Selects 9 Instruments for Europa Mission
Supernovas Help ‘Clean’ Galaxies
Magnetospheres: Researcher Works to Debunk the Theory Behind Massive Stars
Mars Rover’s ChemCam Instrument Gets Sharper Vision
Hubble Observes One-Of-A-Kind Star Nicknamed ‘Nasty’
Earth-Like Planets are More Likely to Orbit Sun-Like Stars Than Lower-Mass Stars
Ceres Bright Spots Sharpen But Questions Remain
A Curious Family of Giant Exoplanets
Ancient Fingerprints Give Fresh Clues to How Galaxies Evolve
Scientists At Work: Tracing The Origin Of Ancient Water Flows On Mars In the Lab
Scientists Get Ready For The Latest Gravitational Wave Search
$1.8 Billion Disappears in Russian Space Program
67P : So It Is A Contact Binary!
LightSail Spacecraft Has Gone Silent After Two Days of Communications
Affirming Support for Thirty Meter Telescope, Hawaii’s Governor Calls for Closing Others
Lawrence Livermore Scientists Move One Step Closer to Mimicking Gamma-Ray Bursts
WISE Researchers Have Found the Most Luminous Galaxy
New Horizons Sees More Detail as it Draws Closer to Pluto: New Images from LORRI
Donuts, Math, and Superdense Teleportation of Quantum Information
NASA Telescopes Set Limits on Space-Time Quantum ‘Foam’
Dawn Spirals Closer to Ceres, Returns a New View
Hubble Video Shows Shock Collision Inside Black Hole Jet
Discovery Shows What the Solar System Looked Like as a ‘Toddler’
How We Found the Source of the Mystery Signals at The Dish
NASA’s Last Space Shuttle External Tank to Complete Endeavour L.A. Exhibit
Galaxy’s Snacking Habits Revealed
NASA Orders First Station Crew Flight from Boeing
Big Bang Aftermath: Ancient Stars from Birth of the Universe
Similarities Between Aurorae on Mars and Earth
The Migrating Stars of Cluster 47 Tucanae
Hot Jupiters: Cloudy or Clear?
Cassini Prepares for Last Up-close Look at Hyperion
The Martian First Look: Matt Damon is an Astronaut Again
Sharp-eyed Alma Spots a Flare on Famous Red Giant Star
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Ok yesterday I visited a planetarium and the host said that the proof for the universes expansion lies in the red shift of stars. He also said that the red shift increases as the stars distance away from us increases. Now I thought it the the stars light takes time to reach us wouldn’t the stars closer have a greater red shift, because the light reaches us before the ones farther away? Hopefully you get what I’m asking, thanks!