Video: The Story of V838 Mon - [FF]
Rebekah and Travis tell the story of V838 Mon, a planet eater or just a really weird star?
Rebekah and Travis tell the story of V838 Mon, a planet eater or just a really weird star?
In this show we cover stories of astronomical predictions: the good, bad and why it’s
easier to be the former than the latter. We also have an interview with Ryan Wyatt, a science visualizer at the American
Museum of Natural History who talks about what goes on behind the scenes to turn those faint fuzzies into pretty pictures and
gives us a report from a recent astro-visualization conference. And of course the news, mail and more.
3 Questions. First question: Should Pluto be a planet?
Michael is visited by Timothy Ferris and a video crew to shoot
a scene for an upcoming PBS show about amateur astronomers.
Rebekah is back and we have two old-school skits, Doug joins us from Gemini South observatory in Chile and we cover
lots of news and gossip in the world of astrology, oops, I mean, astronomy.