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Podcaster: Ralph, Paul  & Jenni

Organization: Awesome Astronomy

Title : Awesome Astronomy December 2019 Space Exploration

Link : www.awesomeastronomy.com

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The News: Rounding up the space exploration news this month we have:

  • A late risk of Exomars being cancelled
  • Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft abort test and cost controversies
  • Sierra Nevada’s Dreamchaser shuttle gets a trailer

Main news story: Far from being unlikely, Tatooine worlds turn out to be very common

The Interview: This month Jeni has a sit down chat about the discovery of the collapsed neutron star from supernova 1987a with Dr Phil Sutton of Cardiff University.

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