Weekly Space Hangout

On March 8, the ESO announced in their Press Release (https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2205/?lang) that a team of researchers from Leiden University, The Netherlands, had detected the largest molecu...

19 Mars 202256min

On March 2, 2022, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reported (refer to Press Release: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2204/?lang) that the HR 6819 system, believed to be the home of the close...

12 Mars 202252min

This week is another news roundup! And what could be better than having a guest join us straight from the "Breaking News" headlines! Joining us tonight is Seth Lockman, Communications Director for blu...

5 Mars 202253min

This week is another news roundup! Be prepared for an entire hour of science news! **************************************** The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to support Cosm...

26 Feb 202251min

This week is another news roundup! Be prepared for an entire hour of science news! Oh yeah - a certain DESK may be making a return! **************************************** The Weekly Space Hangout is...

20 Feb 202254min

This week we are airing Fraser's prerecorded interview with Michael Foley, co-author of a recently published paper that talks about how the local bubble around the Sun drives nearby star formation. Yo...

12 Feb 202256min

This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Sian Proctor, Inspiration4 Mission Pilot, to the Weekly Space Hangout. On September 16, 2021, the Inspiration4 all-civilian orbital mission to space launched fr...

5 Feb 20221h

This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Ralph McNutt to the WSH. Two weeks ago, Dave Dickinson introduced us to a proposed new mission by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the I...

29 Jan 202255min