Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: This week we welcome Paul Sutter, the CCAPP Visiting Fellow who works on the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure.
Guests:
Jolene Creighton (@jolene723 / fromquarkstoquasars.com)
Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein / briankoberlein.com)
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
This Week’s Stories:
Mars Cube One: New Deep-Space CubeSats Will Travel to Mars Along With InSight Lander
New map confirms four Milky Way arms
Stennis fires up RS-25 engine as Shuttle veterans prepare for SLS role
Mexico Buys A Ride To The Moon
Farewell, LightSail: Satellite Watchers Say Solar Sail Fades Away
Polar Cyclones on Saturn Form From Smaller Storms
New Study Favors Cold, Icy Early Mars
Lab mimicry opens a window to the deep interiors of stars and planets
3-D printed rocket engine aims for flight record
Listening to the ‘sound’ of the #Universe – highly sensitive core of LISA Pathfinder completed
Ceres Has Lots of Bright Spots
Scientists discover brightest early galaxy and likely first generation stars
Best Observational Evidence of First Generation Stars in the Universe
Healthy comet lander Philae is ready to get back to work
Kepler 138 b – The Smallest Confirmed Exoplanet
The Moon May Have Dusty “Clouds”
All Systems Go for NASA’s Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
Dual asteroid strike hints at chaos in the inner solar system
#TWiM: SpaceX Early-adopter SES Ready To Reuse Falcon 9 – For the Right Price
Science team finds methane in meteorites from Mars
Hot lava flows suggest volcanoes are active on Venus
Want to visit CERN? You can do it now via Google Street View!!
The Hydrocarbon Winds of Titan Explained
Hubble Telescope Captures ‘Bizarre Cosmic Quartet’ of Galaxies
Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet
Unknown extreme star formation discovered
Pluto and its Moon Charon, Now in Color!!
ALMA Weighs Supermassive Black Hole at Center of Distant Spiral Galaxy
Telescope backers to resume construction on Hawaii Island
France Giving up Arianespace Ownership, but not Oversight
Avoiding ‘Armageddon’: Asteroid Deflection Test Planned for 2022
Astronomers discover more than 800 dark galaxies in the famous Coma Cluster
Detecting exoplanets close to their host star: Astronomers develop breakthrough optical component
Sinkholes on Titan: New Study Shows How Hydrocarbon Lakes May Form by Earth-Like Erosion
Geomagnetic storm coming our way
Plum Brook prepped for EM-1 Orion Service Module testing
New Horizons update: Resolving features on Charon and seeing in color
See a Real-Time Transit of an Inky Dark Exoplanet
NASA’s Chandra Captures X-Ray Echoes Pinpointing Distant Neutron Star
ESA approves extension for comet mission Rosetta
Exposed Water Ice Detected on Comet’s Surface
LISA Pathfinder: Science payload completed and integrated into the satellite
ALMA Detects First Traces of Carbon ‘Smog’ Permeating Interstellar Atmospheres of Early Galaxies
OneWeb signs agreement with Arianespace for the deployment of the OneWeb Constellation
Mercury Sole Survivor of Close Orbiting Planets Around the Sun
NASA takes first step towards landing humans on Mars
Cassini spends week observing Saturn’s magnetic personality
Car manufacturer Audi joins race to the Moon
Virgin Galactic, Arianespace land 60 launch contracts for OneWeb
Can planets be rejuvenated around dead stars?
#?LightSail? Kickstarter campaign reaches final stretch goal at $1,241,615!
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