Weekly Space Hangout – January 31, 2014: No Black Holes?!?
Host: Fraser Cain
Guests: Brian Koberlein, Morgan Rehnberg, David Dickinson, Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci
Today’s Stories
New Cosmos Trailer with Neil DeGrasse Tyson!
Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein):
Hawking’s “No Black Holes”
Magnetic Monopoles “discovery” – cosmological implications of monopoles
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter):
NASA Day of Rememberance
David Dickinson (@Astroguyz):
Brown Dwarf Weather
Planetary Imaging for Cheap
NEOWISE Spots Mars Crossing Comet
Spotting Mercury at its Best
Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer):
River of Hydrogen Flowing into a Galaxy
LRO images LADEE (an OH I SEE IT moment)
New Video Tutorials on Cosmoquest!
Jason Major (@JPMajor, LightsInTheDark.com, Universe Today, Discovery News):
The Sun Got Photobombed by the Moon
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