#49 - July 2016

The Discussion: Earthling slave John got married! The new fashion
of requesting telescopes at weddings, a good time of year for
solar astronomy, the scores are in for the results of Jeni’s
master’s degree, Jeni gets a sciencey summer job and we make a
joking (but no less genuine) appeal for astronomy equipment to
review in future shows.


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


NASA inflate Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable habitat on the
ISS

Progress on NASA’s attempts to send humans beyond low Earth
orbit

Analysis of ALMA data hints at planetary formation beginning
earlier than thought

An update on the origins of the elusive Planet 9

The Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft gets ready to orbit the gas
giant

Arizona astronomers find 65 young galaxies – the oldest
galaxy cluster yet discovered



Woobusters: Continuing our quest to debunk the myths and
conspiracy theories that persist in every dark corner of the news
and the internet. This month’s topic, picked at random from
Paul’s Big Hat of Woo, is moon landing hoaxers – the mother of
all space-related conspiracy theories!


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 get a question about our own observing and imaging of the
skies:


How do you think the name of Planet 9 will be chosen if it’s
eventually discovered – is it too late to start a campaign for
Planet McPlanetface? Gavin Mills from Canberra, Australia