Episode #228
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Kakapo
Interview with Steven Thoms
- Steven is the editor of SkepticNorth – a new panCanadian group blog www.skepticnorth.com
Question # 1 – ClimateGate
- ClimateGate Feedback
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Astronomers have discovered vast clouds of metallic atoms, specifically chromium (30 million solar masses) and manganese (8 million solar masses), in intergalactic space. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/astro-e2/news/intergalactic_metal.html
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Item #2
Fiction
New observations suggest that the globular clusters that swarm around the Milky Way’s galactic bulge each harbor a supermassive black hole at their center.
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Item #3
Science
Astronomers have described a new type of supernova – resulting from a 200 solar mass star, that took 70 days to reach peak brightness and exploded so powerfully that it did not leave behind a remnant to form a black hole. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/12/02/superbright-supernova/