Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 29, 2016: Largest Solar System, Future Missions .... HD

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter ) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier ) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Jolene Creighton (fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism) Pamela Gay (cosmoquest.org / @cosmoquestx / @starstryder) Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Brian Koberlein (briankoberlein.com / @briankoberlein ) Their stories this week: Largest solar system Elon Musk and the quest for Mars (plans for manned mission by 2025) This Week in Bezos Twelve years on Mars for Opportunity Remembrance Stories of Apollo 1 and Challenger Hunting for planets around Proxima Centauri Hubble Sees Monstrous Cloud Boomerang Back to our Galaxy Making New Stars By ‘Adopting’ Stray Cosmic Gases Work begins on NASA’s *other* telescope, WFIRST Telescopes team up to produce highest-resolution astronomical image We’ve had an abundance of news stories for the past few months, and not enough time to get to them all. So we’ve started a new system. Instead of adding all of the stories to the spreadsheet each week, we are now using a tool called Trello to submit and vote on stories we would like to see covered each week, and then Fraser will be selecting the stories from there. Here is the link to the Trello WSH page (http://bit.ly/WSHVote), which you can see without logging in. If you’d like to vote, just create a login and help us decide what to cover! 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 also join in the discussion between episodes over at our Weekly Space Hangout Crew group in G+!