Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

The Discussion: Jeni’s tells us about her gig at the Cardiff Book Talk and an upcoming talk at Usk Astronomical Society, Paul had a hairy moment giving a talk on the Herschels only to find their descendants in the room and we run through listeners’ emails. And the Coates Equation...

The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:

- Low metallicity stars inexplicably seem to harbour the rocky exoplanets

- A possible satellite galaxy to Mirach’s Ghost may have been discovered by amateur kit, a 127mm ED doublet refractor!

- Aliens may not be green but purple

- A plume-like cloud of water ice over Mars

- A review of the Galileo data shows no signs of cryovolcanic plumes on Europa

- The slowest rotating pulsar found

- Magnetism around Cygnus A supermassive black hole gives us some clues

- Has the first exomoon been discovered?

Sky Guide: Taking a look at the astronomical objects above our heads this month that you can enjoy with a small telescope or binoculars.

Paul: Saturn, Mars, Uranus, Neptune & a risky greatest elongation of Mercury on 6th November. And Comets 46P Wirtanen and 38P Stephan-Oterma may well provide some distractions too.

Ralph: Northern Taurids meteor shower peaks on 12th November and the Leonids peak on the 17th.

Jen: Mirach’s Ghost in Andromeda and…

- Two galactic members of the Local Group NGC147 & NGC185.

- And we finish off with a spotlight on Venus which will be its brightest all year at the end of the month.

Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we take a look at accepted fact vs the evidence to date:

"Did a collision with the Earth create the moon? Is it fact or still a hypothesis?" Andrew Osborn in London.

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