Weekly Space Hangout - Aug. 16, 2013

By Fraser Cain - August 16, 2013 at 6:53 PM UTC | Site News

Like your space news, but you just can't handle reading any more? Then watch our Weekly Space Hangout, where we give you a rundown of all the big space news stories that broke this week.

Host: Fraser Cain

Panel: Brian Koberlein, David Dickinson, Nancy Atkinson, Nicole Gugliucci

Stories:

CIA Comes Clean About Area 51

Elon Musk's Hyperloop

Space Fence Shut Down

Magnetar Discovered Near the Galactic Core

IAU Updates Their Naming Policy

Bright Nova in Delphinus

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12 pm Pacific / 3 pm Eastern as a live Google+ Hangout on Air. Join us live on YouTube, or you can listen to the audio after the fact on the

365 Days of Astronomy Podcast

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