Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest:
Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manager – Technical for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )
Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter)
Alessondra Springmann (sondy.com / @sondy)
Their stories this week:
Giant plasma balls ejected from star
Hurricane Matthew at the space coast
Ultra-strange ultra-cool brown dwarfs
Successful test of New Shepard crew escape system
Saturday, Oct. 8 is International Observe the Moon Night!
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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