Weekly Space Hangout

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. Emily Holt is an Environmental Archaeologist and Anthropologist who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University of Ohio. Emily's research focuses on human-environment dynamics in the Nuragic Culture of Bronze Age Sardinia. She directs the Pran’e Siddi Landscape Project (PSLP), an archaeological survey in south-central Sardinia, which is examining the long-term changes in settlement patterns, water use, and the socio-cultural interpretation of natural resources. Emily is also the president of the non-profit organization Public Scholar Outreach whose mission is to support, produce, promote, and disseminate high-quality public scholarship, especially public scholarship that is peer-reviewed and public scholarship with relevance to contemporary issues. PSO's primary initiative is to establish Dirt & Words: an online, open access channel of peer-reviewed public scholarship about the human past. Today, Emily and Fraser will be discussing how ancient cultures understood astronomy, a topic she recently discussed with Paul Sutter on his Space Radio broadcast. You can follow Emily on Twitter: @Emily_M_Holt To learn more about her ongoing research, be sure to visit her website ERRANT: letters from an itinerant archaeologist here: https://errant.live/ The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Luciano Iess, professor of Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, is a member of the Cassini radio science team that recently determined, after analyzing gravity science data collected during the final orbits of Cassini around Saturn, that its iconic rings are a relatively young feature of the planet. You can read more about this and the teams other exciting discoveries online at the following sites: ► https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/missions-expose-surprising-differences-interiors-saturn-and-jupiter ► https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7315 The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Tonight we welcome author Rod Pyle who will be discussing his new book, Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, a resurgent NASA, and International Partners Are Creating a New Space Age (BenBella Books, February 2019), written in collaboration with the National Space Society. Rod Pyle is a space author, historian, and journalist who works with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and previously at the Johnson Space Center. He has written 13 books on the history and technology of space exploration and science for major publishers in the US, UK, and Asia. As a journalist, Rod's work has appeared in Space.com, LiveScience.com, WIRED, Futurity, The Huffington Post, Popular Science, and many other print and online venues, and he is the senior editor of the quarterly print magazine Ad Astra. Rod has also produced documentary programming on spaceflight for The History Channel as well as Discovery Communications. He has written on spaceflight and science for NASA/JPL and Caltech, and authored a guide to executive education for the Johnson Space Center/The Conference Board's Apollo Leadership Experience. Rod speaks frequently on spaceflight and executive development, and has is a regularly scheduled radio guest on WGN/Chicago, KFI/Los Angeles and numerous syndicated radio programs, and hosts a weekly podcast on iHeart radio. He worked in visual effects on the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the new Battlestar Galactica, and spent a decade at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Rod is a graduate of Stanford University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a member of the National Space Society, the Author's Guild, the National Association of Science Writers and a former member of the Director’s Guild of America, the Writer’s Guild of America and the Producer's Guild of America. The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Paul MacNeal, a mechanical systems engineer at JPL, created the Annual Invention Challenge twenty-one years ago after helping his son with an extra credit assignment. Since then, teams of high school students from around the world compete each year against JPL engineers to see who can design and build the smartest and most efficient machine. The objective of the 2018 Challenge, which took place on Friday, December 14th, was to ""to get a 24-inch length of two-inch PVC pipe from a horizontal position to an upright position on a platform using whatever device they could come up with, instructions not included."" To view the 2018 results – as well as those from the prior 20 challenges – visit the Invention Challenge website at https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/inventionchallenge/ The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz is an Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium. She studies stellar magnetic activity and how stars influence a planet's suitability as a host for alien life. She is also an artist and works in a variety of media, from oil paint to sound. Dr. Walkowicz holds a B.S. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University, and a M.S. and Ph. D. from University of Washington. She was the Kepler Fellow at UC Berkeley, and the Henry Norris Russell Fellow at Princeton University, before joining the Astronomy Department at Adler Planetarium in 2014. She is a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, a 2011 National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, and has been internationally recognized for her advocacy for conservation of dark night skies. From October 2017 to October 2018, Dr. Walkowicz served as the fifth Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Additionally, you may have seen in numerous episodes of the documentary The Universe, as well as the current National Geographic series, Mars. The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. This week we catch up with a roundup of news from the past 2 weeks! The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. This week we revisit the big stories of the year! The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. This week we catch up with a roundup of news from the past 2 weeks! The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Volunteer for our Hangout-a-thon either to promote, provide a giveaway, or to come on as a guest https://goo.gl/forms/XSm1yi0PKOM166m12 Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. Pamela Gay is on again, to promote our CosmoQuest Hangout-a-thon coming on Dec 22! http://bit.ly/CQXHangout2018 Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Volunteer for our Hangout-a-thon either to promote, provide a giveaway, or to come on as a guest https://goo.gl/forms/XSm1yi0PKOM166m12 Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. This week we are joined by David Eicher, co-author with Dr. Brian May of Mission Moon 3-D: A New Perspective on the Space Race. During David's appearance, we will be giving away three copies of the book which is co-published with the MIT Press and the London Stereoscopic Association. David Eicher is one of the most widely recognized astronomy enthusiasts in the world. He has been Editor in Chief of Astronomy magazine for the past thirty-five years. Eicher is the author or editor of 21 books on science and history. In 2014, he wrote and edited, along with Brian May and astronomer Garik Israelian, Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space, and in 2016 edited the follow-up volume, Starmus: Discovering the Universe. In 1990, the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet, 3617 Eicher, for Eicher in recognition of his service to astronomy. He has spoken to and inspired many science and business groups around the world, including at Harvard University, the Starmus Festival and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dave was president of the Astronomy Foundation, the telescope industry and astronomy outreach group, from 2011–2017. Want to help CosmoQuest? Here are specific ways you can help: Donate! (Streamlabs link) https://streamlabs.com/cosmoquestx Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx Volunteer for our Hangout-a-thon either to promote, provide a giveaway, or to come on as a guest https://goo.gl/forms/XSm1yi0PKOM166m12 Help us find sponsors by sharing our program and fundraising efforts through your networks Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast Sponsor 365 Days of Astronomy http://bit.ly/sponsor365DoA A combination of the above!

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. "This week, we are joined by Dr. Bruce Betts, Chief Scientist and LightSail Program Manager for The Planetary Society. Prior to working on the LightSail program, Dr. Betts managed a number of flight instrument projects at the Planetary Society, including silica glass DVDs on the Mars Exploration Rovers and Phoenix lander, the LIFE biology experiment that flew on the Russian Phobos sample return mission, and he led a NASA grant studying microrovers assisting human exploration. Dr. Betts new children's book, ""Astronomy for Kids: How to Observe Outer Space with a Telescope, Binoculars, or Just Your Eyes!"" is now available in time for holiday gift giving. Prior to joining the Planetary Society, Dr. Betts, a planetary scientist, studied planetary surfaces, including Mars, the Moon, and Jupiter’s moons, using infrared and other data, during his time at San Juan Institute/Planetary Science Institute. Additionally, Dr. Betts spent three years at NASA headquarters managing planetary instrument development programs to design spacecraft science instruments. You can learn more about Dr. Betts by visiting http://www.planetary.org/about/staff/bruce-betts.html. If you want to learn about his new book and how to order it, visit http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce-betts/astronomy-for-kids.html"

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist and science educator - and now AUTHOR - is no stranger to the regular viewers of the WSH - but in case you missed it, and for anyone new to the WSH, Paul earned his Bachelor of Science in Physics from California Polytechnic State University in 2005 and his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. By day, Paul is a Cosmological Researcher & Community Outreach Coordinator with the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State University. But Paul is probably best known and loved by everyone here at the WSH as one of our four co-hosts, his weekly show Space Radio, and of course, let's not forget his podcast Ask a Spaceman! This week, we turn the tables on Paul (at least briefly!) as he joins us as our special guest to discuss his first book Your Place in the Universe. You can learn more about Paul and his research by visiting his website, http://www.pmsutter.com. You can learn where to tune in each week to Space Radio by going to http://www.pmsutter.com/shows/spaceradio/ You can watch episodes of Ask A Spaceman! here: http://www.pmsutter.com/shows/askaspaceman/ And last, but now least, you can learn more about Paul's book by visiting http://www.pmsutter.com/book.

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. "Tonight Fraser interviews Colin Stuart, author of How to Live in Space, which is available now. Visit https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580109/how-to-live-in-space-by-colin-stuart/9781588346384/ for information about buying your own copy. Colin is a science speaker and author, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He has written articles for the London Mathematical Society and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and has spoken to more than 250k people about the wonders of the universe in which we live. You can learn more about Colin by visiting his website at http://www.colinstuart.net/"

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page.

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder is a blogger and Theoretical Physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies where she leads the Analog Systems for Gravity Duals group. Dr. Hossenfelder just finished writing her first book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" which is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Beauty-Physics-Astray/dp/0465094252

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manager - Technical for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where he focuses on technical oversight, and the resolution and verification of technical issues. Paul last visited us on October 7, 2017, almost two years ago to the day, and tonight joins us to give us an update about JWST. You can learn more about Paul by visiting https://jwst.nasa.gov/meet-geithner.html

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. Sean Carroll is a blogger, author, and theoretical physicist at Caltech where he investigates dark matter/dark energy, modified gravity, and multiple other topics in cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. In addition to having written several books (most recently "The Big Picture" https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/bigpicture/), Sean has recorded lecture courses for The Great Courses, as well as producing many other online video and audio lectures. In 2004, Sean launched his blog (https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/) and in July, 2018, announced his newest venture, his Mindscape Podcast (https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/) You can lean more about Sean on his webpage: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Dr. David Warmflash is an astrobiologist and science writer. He received his M.D. from Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, and has done post doctoral work at Brandeis University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johnson Space Center, where he was a NASA astrobiology training fellow. He has been involved in science outreach for more than a decade, including having collaborated with The Planetary Society on studying the effects of the space environment on small organisms. As a prolific freelance science communicator, David has had numerous articles published, his most recent being ""Should the Moon be Quarantined?"" which appears in the current issue of Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-the-moon-be-quarantined/). You can find David on Twitter (@CosmicEvolution)

This week we have a Special Live Edition of Weekly Space Hangout from the AC500 Weekend, with Fraser, Kimberly, Morgan, and Pamela in front of a live audience at Recess Brewing in Edwardsville, IL.