#47 - May 2016

In this month's show:


The Discussion


Revision season as Jeni finishes her masters in astrophysics and
preparations for AstroCamp in the Welsh Brecon Beacons.


The News


SpaceX make Paul look a right fool

Stephen Hawking backs an attempt to send spaceships to Alpha
Centauri

More insight in to gravitational waves

A new galaxy is discovered orbiting the Milky Way

Narrowing down the whereabouts of Planet Nine



Paul's Big Hat of Woo


This month we look at planetary alignments and all those crazy
notions that tsunamis or weightlessness might occur if the
planets are in certain alignments, or something.


Q&A


Our question this month comes from Clemens Unger in Melbourne,
Australia who helpfully suggested:


If you’re looking for a topic to chat about in the show, how
about the recent well publicised case of image theft in the Astro
imaging community? A chap used a Damien Peach image and presented
it as his own. But, as it’s a small world, Damien saw it by
chance. There seems to be so much pressure on these days to show
better and better images and that seems to overtake the fun of
astronomy a bit for some and peer pressure is getting to some.