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Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 13 episode: News Roundup!

Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 13 episode: News Roundup!

Released Friday, 20th January 2017
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Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 13 episode: News Roundup!

Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 13 episode: News Roundup!

Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 13 episode: News Roundup!

Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 13 episode: News Roundup!

Friday, 20th January 2017
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqGJxgAAHQA

Streamed live Jan 13, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain ) Special Guest: There is no special guest this week. It's all news this time!

Regular Guests:

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

C.C. Petersen ( http://thespacewriter.com/wp/ / @AstroUniverse )

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

This week's stories:

- Tabby's Star (Alien megastructure) update. 3 new possibilities:

   1. Something internal inside the star is fluctuating randomly.

   2. A random stream of comets.

   3. The star has merged with something...

- Where next for Voyager?

- Looking for life's molecules in the Universe.

- How Breakthrough Starshot is helping the search for extrasolar planets.

- Earth (and the Moon) seen from Mars by the HiRise camera.

- A naked eye LRN, a luminous red nova, in 2022? A mergeburst?

   (What happens in Cygnus stays in Cygnus!)

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