Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Dr. Andrew Helton, Dr. Ryan Hamilton, Kimberly Cartier, Morgan Rehnberg, Brian Koberlein
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Andrew Helton & Ryan Hamilton of SOFIA
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Description: This Week’s Stories:
- Caught For The First Time: A shock breakout, the early flash of a supernova.
- Supermassive stars aren’t due to mergers
- Virgin Galactic looks to become much more terrestrial. May go Boom… http://boom.aero/
- Ancient Polar Ice Reveals Tilting of Earth’s Moon
- Did Saturn’s inner moons form recently?
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
Special Guests:This week, we welcome Dr. Andrew Helton ( @ProcyonACMi ) and Dr. Ryan Hamilton ( @AstroBokonon ) member of the SOFIA Telescope Team.
Andrew is the Instrument Scientist for the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) dual channel, mid-infrared camera and spectrograph, one of the observatory’s facility-class science instruments.
Ryan is the Instrument Scientist for the upgraded High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera (HAWC+) on board NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )
Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg )
Brian Koberlein ( @briankoberlein / briankoberlein.com )
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