Weekly Space Hangout - Oct. 31, 2014: Bad Week in Space

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@cosmic_chatter

) Ramin Skibba (

@raminskibba

) Alessondra Springmann (

@sondy

) Ken Kremer (

kenkremer.com

/

@ken_kremer

)

This Week's Stories:

SpaceShip 2 Crash

Antares rocket explosion

Dark matter at Milky Way center

Rosetta update?

New high-altitude skydiving record set by Google exec

NASA Identifies Ice Cloud Above Cruising Altitude on Titan

A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io

Mars Orbiter's Spectrometer Shows Oort Comet's Coma

First Time-lapse Images of Exploding Fireball From A Nova

SpaceX to Try Rocket Landing on Floating Ocean Platform, Elon Musk Says

Poland to Join the European Southern Observatory

LOFAR Discovers Largest Carbon Atoms Outside Our Milky Way

New HiRISE Photos of Mars Released

Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System

New Results from Curiosity Rover: ChemCam Sheds New Light on Yellowknife Bay

When Did Galaxies Settle Down?

Possible Supernova in M61

Planet Hunters Analyzing Kepler Data Discover 3-Planet System Orbing a Young, 1-Billion Year Old, Sun-like Star Named PH3 [Formerly known as Kepler-289]

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Now Complete

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Suffers 'In-Flight Anomaly' and Has Apparently Been "Lost"

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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.