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Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 3: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST

Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 3: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST

Released Friday, 10th February 2017
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Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 3: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST

Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 3: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST

Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 3: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST

Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 3: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST

Friday, 10th February 2017
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYCaCOfH8c

Streamed live Feb 3, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain ) Special Guest: This week's guest is Dr. Meredith Rawls ( https://astronomerrdiff.wordpress.com/ / https://astrobites.org/author/mrawls/ / @merrdiff ). Meredith is a postdoc working with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Data Management group at the University of Washington. The LSST will collect frames for a decade-long movie of the sky beginning in 2022. Her team develops software to process terabytes of nightly data. She's also an active researcher in stellar astrophysics and a relentless science communicator.

Regular Guests: (Possibly)

Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )

Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )

This week's stories:

- First science from Keck's Vortex Coronagraph!

- Oxygen on the Moon

- Cosmic Supervoids

- The holographic Universe

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