The People Inside Lintott

Summary: Chris and Rob are in Chris’ new, empty (and echoing) office. We wonder if we should finally begin naming exoplanets. The Zooniverse has been busy, and so has the Voyager 1 probe: it’s about to leave the Solar System! [MP3 Link] Episode #37. 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: New release about NGC3314: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1208/ Solar Stormwatch and Old Weather join forces to learn more about sunspots: http://blogs.zooniverse.org/solarstormwatch/2012/06/sunspots-ahoy/ Teacup : http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2012/06/14/hubble-spies-the-teacup-and-i-spy-hubble/ New curiosity landing site: http://www.sen.com/news/revised-landing-site-for-curiosity.html NuSTAR launch : http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2012/pr-nustar-slac-telescope-061412.html Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar System: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/get-ready-because-voyager-i-is-this-close-to-leaving-our-solar-system/258456/ No Bow Shock: McComas et al. (Science) : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/news/nobowshock.html Supernova Zoo: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.7040 Taste twitter: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669969/machine-scans-twitter-for-mentions-of-fruit-then-turns-them-into-smoothies Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).