Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Guests:
Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter )
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )
Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz)
Jolene Creighton (fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism)
Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter)
Their stories this week:
Largest solar system
Elon Musk and the quest for Mars (plans for manned mission by 2025)
Twelve years on Mars for Opportunity
Remembrance Stories of Apollo 1 and Challenger
Hunting for planets around Proxima Centauri
Hubble Sees Monstrous Cloud Boomerang Back to our Galaxy
Making New Stars By ‘Adopting’ Stray Cosmic Gases
Work begins on NASA’s other telescope, WFIRST
Telescopes team up to produce highest-resolution astronomical image
We’ve had an abundance of news stories for the past few months, and not enough time to get to them all. So we’ve started a new system. Instead of adding all of the stories to the spreadsheet each week, we are now using a tool called Trello to submit and vote on stories we would like to see covered each week, and then Fraser will be selecting the stories from there. Here is the link to the Trello WSH page (http://bit.ly/WSHVote), which you can see without logging in. If you’d like to vote, just create a login and help us decide what to cover!
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