Weekly Space Hangout – June 6, 2014: Comets & Cosmos?
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter)
Brian Koberlien (@briankoberlein)
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
Matthew Francis (CosmoAcademy.org, @DrMRFrancis)
This Week’s Stories:
Comet observations?
Mega-Earth
Is NASA on track to go to Mars?
Cosmos
Evidence of the Impact that formed the moon
Hybrid Star (Thorne-Zytkow object) possibly found
Magnetic fields near black holes stronger than expected
Hubble Ultra ultra deep field
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.
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