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Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: This week we welcome Dr. Jay L. Nadeau to the Weekly Space Hangout. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Physics department at Portland State University and the founder of the Nadeau Lab (https://motility.research.pdx.edu/ind...​) where they research nanoparticles, fluorescence imaging, and develop instrumentation for the detection of life elsewhere in the solar system.

Prior to PSU, she was associate professor of biomedical engineering and physics at McGill University (2004–2015) and a Research Professor at Caltech (2015-2017). Before McGill, she was a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Life Detection, and previous to that a Burroughs-Wellcome postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Henry A. Lester at Caltech. She received her PhD in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1996.

The Nadeau Lab receives funding from NASA, the NSF, private foundations, and industry. The group features chemists, microbiologists, roboticists, physicists, and physician-scientists, all learning from each other and hoping to speak each other’s language. A believer in bringing biology to physicists as well as physics to biologists, Jay teaches upper-division courses in Biophysics, Statistical Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics. She also teaches Radiation Physics in the OHSU Medical Physics program. She is the author of two textbooks, Introduction to Experimental Biophysics and Truly Tricky Graduate Physics Problems, and a popular science photo book, Going To MARS: Science in Canada’s High Arctic.

Jay is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in STEM, and seeks to broaden the pipeline into physics by creating new courses and programs that are friendly to people who are coming to physics after other careers or majors, to working professionals including teachers, and to underrepresented students. She is a member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), the American Physical Society, and the American Chemical Society.

Regular Guests:

Dr. Moiya McTier ( https://www.moiyamctier.com/ & @GoAstroMo )

Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )

Pam Hoffman ( http://spacer.pamhoffman.com/ & http://everydayspacer.com/ & @EverydaySpacer )

This week's stories:

- A lunar satellite constellation.

- Last night's lunar eclipse!

- Another eclipse! Annular this time.

- Europa may have deep sea volcanoes.

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A tiny black hole, only three solar masses, has been found inside the Milky Way in the constellation Monoceros. One of the smallest black holes ever found, it is also the closest one to Earth. Plus, Perseverance, Gaia, a brown dwarf, new images of Jupiter, seismic monitoring from space, and this week’s What’s Up.

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https://www.spacescoop.org/en/scoops/2108/a-hidden-map-of-the-invisible-magnetic-universe/

Galaxy clusters are basically made of:

1. Dark matter which can only be detected with light passing near it, and,

2. Hot plasma, a gas so hot that its atoms fly apart!

As galaxies in a cluster slam into each other and the surrounding matter, they create bow shocks, causing movement of the plasma around these clusters. This movement interacts with the invisible magnetic fields creating magnetic walls around the galaxies inside the cluster.

These walls are very hard to detect, and, until now, astronomers had to wait for something to interact with them so they could make indirect observations of these magnetic walls. As these interactions are really hard to see, understanding these magnetic fields is not easy.

But now, with the maps provided by the high-energy jets coming out of black holes, the task can be a little easier. 

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More maybes…

- Are there really parallel Universes?

So, could there be a parallel Universe with a podcast called Expensive Astronomy, who’s goatee-bearing host had to shut down the Expensive Astronomy Patreon page because it had become a major drain on the world‘s economy? Well, sure, anything’s possible, right?

- How close is fusion energy?

Well, a lot of people are saying 2050 – but that with that sort of timeline, you might just as well say no time soon. Fusion clearly is achievable, after all the Sun and other stars do it all the time.

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Have you ever wanted to be a time traveler? Well, good news! You're time traveling right now. Into the future at one second per second. Taking too long? Don't want to wait? Good news, Einstein's got you covered. Today, let's talk about the weird world of time dilation.

Also: There are monitor forts to consider… #MonitorFort

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Recorded September 01, 2019.

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org

Today's 2 topics:

- After six weeks of clouds, thunder, rain, hail, and lightning asteroid hunters are glad to be on the sky again. 

- The Indian Space Research Organization has placed a spacecraft, Chandrayaan-2, in lunar orbit where it is sending back images of our Moon from less than a distance of 2,000 miles.  This project is an ambitious mission to land a rover near the Moon's south pole.

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Hosted by Bret Yotti.

Today we talk with Brandon Engelbrecht, a PhD student from the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Brandon is part of a research group which uses the MeerKAT telescope to study galaxy clusters. These are some of the largest structures in our Universe.

Brandon tells us about his PhD research into improving MeerKAT data by removing radio frequency interference (RFI). This interference can be caused by many different things, including satellites in orbit around the Earth.

Brandon also describes how he went from being a high school student with a budding interest in astronomy, to now working with and improving upon one of the largest radio telescopes in the world.

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Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Ethan Schaler to the Weekly Space Hangout. Ethan is a Robotics Mechanical Engineer in the Robotic Actuation and Sensing Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Ethan has backgrounds in Electrical Engineering (PhD), Mechanical Engineering (BS), and Micro/Nanotechnology (MPhil), and collaborates with researchers in a variety of disciplines to design, model, fabricate, and characterize new robotic systems at micrometer- to meter-scales.

In the flight world, Ethan is a member of the Robotic Arm team in the Sampling and Caching Subsystem for the Mars 2020 mission, where he's focused on testing / operating the rover’s robotic arm and built-in force-torque sensor. In the research world, he's built flexible grippers, miniature legged robots, and high-voltage actuators. Lately, he’s also been brainstorming ideas for new robots to explore unique corners of our solar system.

You can learn more about Ethan and stay up to date with his projects by visiting his JPL Website: https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/peo... and the M2020 Website: https://mars.nasa.gov/people/profile/.... You can also follow him on Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanscha....

Regular Guests:

Michael Rodruck ( https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/ & @MichaelRodruck )

Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )

Beth Johnson - SETI Institute ( @SETIInstitute & @planetarypan )

This week's stories:

- The first Chinese rover on Mars.

- Deep water on Neptune & Uranus.

- Tidal tails out in the Universe.

- The upcoming total Lunar eclipse.

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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan.

This is episode 119, where the lads tackle deep sky observing in the constellation of the physician. Torn from the pages of the RASC’s Observer’s Handbook! (So to speak…)

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The Discussion:

• Farewell to Michael Collins.
• Jeni back on the radio, other podcasts and TV. - tiny.cc/crhxtz
• Listeners’ emails.

The News:

• Blue Origin prepares to take space tourists.
• The launch of China’s new Space Station & falling space debris.
• Can you help the Royal Astronomical Society find the UK’s moon trees? tiny.cc/rrhxtz
• SpaceX reaches a production/economic milestone with a 10th reuse of a Falcon 9 booster.

The big news story:

NASA awards and then pauses the contract to develop the next lunar lander.

Moons of the Solar System:

Our show segment exploring the discovery, exploration and our knowledge of the solar system’s moons. And we move onto Saturn’s enigmatic satellites, Titan and Enceladus.

Q&A:

‘What is the future for Hubble once the JWST launches and could there be new servicing missions with the development of the SpaceX Starship’ From our good friend Mark de Vrij in the UK.

www.awesomeastronomy.com

Bio: Awesome Astronomy is a podcast beamed direct from an underground bunker on Mars to promote science, space and astronomy (and enslave Earth if all goes well).

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