Weekly Space Hangout - March 27, 2015: Dark Matter Galaxy "X" with Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Special Guest:

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Lead Investigator for team that may have discovered

Dark Matter Galaxy "X".

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@MorganRehnberg

) Dave Dickinson (

@astroguyz

/

www.astroguyz.com

) Brian Koberlein (

@briankoberlein

)

This Week's Stories:

Eclipse Season 2015

Dark matter darker than we thought

LHC won't disprove the big bang

Nova in Saggitarius - Naked Eye at 5th Magnitude

SpaceX Eyes Spaceport America for Testing Recovered Boosters at Parabolic Arc

The Next Generation of Space Station Experiments

The Mapping of Pluto Begins Today

CRS 2 Contract Sees New Lockheed Martin Spacecraft, Dream Chaser Reborn

New Dwarf Galaxies Near Milky Way

Colliding Stars Explain Enigmatic Seventeenth Century Explosion

New Research Suggests Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths

NASA Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover

Soyuz Launch Double-Header Set for Friday

Chemical Fingerprints of Ancient Supernovae Found

Supergirls Conquer Obama at White House Science Fair

A Meteorite Older than Earth Could Tell Us How Planets Were Made

NASA Agrees to Aid Dream Chaser Development to CDR Level

NASA Satellites Catch "Growth Spurt" from Newborn Protostar

Sending the Garden of ETON to Space; Crowdfunding Project

Supernova Mystery Found at the Bottom of the Sea

Space Experiment Hunts for Key to Alzheimer's Disease in Weightlessness

You Can Vote to Name America's New Rocket from ULA

Explosions of Jupiter's Aurora Linked to Planet-Moon Interaction

NASA Announces Next Steps on Journey to Mars: Progress on Asteroid Initiative

How Black Holes Clear Galaxies of Star Making Gas

The Wild Story Behind an Astronaut's Lucky Patches

NASA Is Moving Forward with a Less Ambitious Asteroid Mission

One-Year ISS Mission Preview: 28 Experiments, 4 Expeditions, and 2 Crew Members

Three Ways to Fix the LHC Before its Big Reboot

MAVEN Sposts Dust Cloud, Aurora on Mars

Best View Yet of Dusty Cloud Passing Galactic Center Black Hole

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Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.