Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Paul M. Sutter, Kimberly Cartier, C.C. Petersen
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Tabby’s Star
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/qqGJxgAAHQA
Description:
This Week’s Stories:
- Tabby’s Star (Alien megastructure) update. 3 new possibilities:
- Something internal inside the star is fluctuating randomly
- A random stream of comets.
- The star has merged with something
- Where next for Voyager?
- Looking for life’s molecules in the Universe.
- How Breakthrough Starshot is helping the search for extrasolar planets.
- Earth (and the Moon) seen from Mars by the HiRise camera.
- A naked eye LRN, a luminous red nova, in 2022? A mergeburst?
(What happens in Cygnus stays in Cygnus!)
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
Guests:
Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )
C.C. Petersen ( http://thespacewriter.com/wp/ / @AstroUniverse )
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
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