#72 - June 2018

The Discussion: Jeni’s talking science conferences while Paul’s
doing impressions from his Who’s Who of Yorkshire legends. Ralph
runs through this month’s pick of listeners tweets & emails
with a focus on exoplanets and a big congrats to listener Dustin
Ruoff


The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we
have:


The earliest stars formed earlier than we thought!

NASA’s latest wow-piece is a helicopter on Mars

The first interstellar immigrant settles in our solar system



The Interview: This month we have two short interviews -
something for the adults, something for the kids: Astronomy on
Tap and International Astronomical Youth Camp.


Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter
take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always
plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month
we take a look climate change (don’t groan!):


What do you think the general (or astronomy/space) science
community's approach to the problem of climate change should be?
Are you optimistic? Alan Travelbea in Vancouver, Canada.