Weekly Space Hangout - November 7, 2014: Ship Updates & Solar System Formation HD

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer) This Week’s Stories: SpaceShipTwo updates Antares updates ALMA’s Gorgeous Picture of Forming Solar System Gravitational lensing of binary black holes New dark matter idea Quantum Weirdness Gets Weirder: Cant the Wave Function of an Electron be Divided and Trapped? Mystery of Earth’s Water Origin Solved Ground control to Maj Tom: Bowie is back!!!! CERN Council Selects Next Director-General: Fabiola Gianotti Orbital Announces Go-Forward Plan for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services Program and the Company’s Antares Launch Vehicle International Space Station Agencies Reaffirm Support For Continued Operations To Europa! Mission to Jupiter’s Moon Gains Support in Congress Rosetta NAVCAM images now available under a Creative Commons licence NASA Telecon to Discuss Mars Comet Flyby Science Jets, Bubbles, and Bursts of Light in Taurus The Star Trek Communicator is Real – and It’s Now On Sale Rjukan Sun: the Norwegian Town that Does it with Mirrors Thunderstorm in the Atacama Desert [photo] Hubble Surveys Debris-Strewn Exoplanetary Construction Yards NASA Rocket Experiment: Universe is Brighter Than We Thought Philae’s Descent and Touchdown Timeline We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page. You can join in the discussion between episodes over at our Weekly Space Hangout Crew group in G+, and suggest your ideas for stories we can discuss each week!