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Podcaster:  Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Carolyn Collins Peterson , Morgan Rehnberg, Kimberly Cartier, Jolene Creighton, Paul Matt Sutter

Weekly-Space-HangoutTitle: Weekly Space Hangout: Largest Solar System!

Link: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/Z9x6_vqxVg

Description: This Week’s Stories:

  • Alien megastructures… Or not. The battle of the scientific papers begins.
  • This Week in Bezos
  • Elon Musk and the quest for Mars (plans for manned mission by 2025)
  • Remembrance Stories of Apollo 1 and Challenger
  • Work begins on NASA’s *other* telescope, WFIRST
  • Hubble Sees Monstrous Cloud Boomerang Back to our Galaxy
  • Largest solar system found, and more on Planet 9…
  • Telescopes team up to produce highest-resolution VLBI astronomical image
  • Twelve years on Mars for Opportunity
  • Making New Stars By ‘Adopting’ Stray Cosmic Gases

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page

Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today

Guests:
Carolyn Collins Peterson ( thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter )
Morgan Rehnberg ( cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )
Jolene Creighton ( fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism )
Paul Sutter ( pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter )

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