Categories: Weekly Space Hangout

Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 24, 2014

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)

Guests:
Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba)

This Week’s Stories:

POLARBEAR (maybe) detects evidence of inflation
partial solar eclipse
Nichelle Nicols Introduces NASA’s ‘Orion’ in New Video
Erin Gray
MESSENGER Provides First Optical Images of Ice Near Mercury’s North Pole
Cassini “Profoundly Productive”
Formation and large scale confinement of jets emitted by young stars finally elucidated
Scientists Build First Map of Hidden Universe
Inside the Milky Way: One step closer to figuring out the mysteries of our galaxy’s core
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane’s Landing in Photos
Stereo Behind Still Out of Commission
China Ready for Thursday Unmanned Sample Return Mission from the Moon
Rollercoaster Science
Big Black Holes Can Block New Stars
Hubble Sees Turquoise-Tinted Plumes in Large Magellanic Cloud
NASA’s Fermi Satellite Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar “Storm”
Two Families of Comets Found Around Nearby Star
Organic Molecules in Titan’s Atmosphere are Intriguingly Skewed
Kepler Mark II is Doing Well
NASA to Launch Soil Moisture Mapper
What Does a Comet Smell Like?
Giant Sunspot AR 2192
Watch: Every Planet and Star in the Known Galaxy Shown in One Video
China Sends a Round Trip Mission to Moon.

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Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast with Dr. Pamela Gay. Here's a link to my Mastodon account.

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