Your Dung Ball Is Huge

Summary: Chris and Rob feel like dung beetles as they roll around in the weeks’ news. Wait no, that’s not right. We discuss dropping steak from space, Betelgeuse, exoplanets and moar! [MP3 Link] Episode #65. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott. Links: Dung Beetles and the Milky Way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150721 Spiders at Mars’ North Pole : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-034 More planets for HAT-P-7 : http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease/2013/01/24/index.html Ten hundred words of science: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001022.shtml Siding Spring fires: astropixie - http://orbitingfrog.com/post/40594495841/bush-fires-at-siding-spring-observatories-by Steak drop: http://what-if.xkcd.com/28/ Herschel observes Betelgeuse : http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Betelgeuse_braces_for_a_collision Is asteroid mining the new black : http://deepspaceindustries.com/ (‘If you can Dream it, you can Be it’) Is that a manatee in space? https://www.nrao.edu/pr/2013/w50/ What If? http://what-if.xkcd.com/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).