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Release Date: 11/15/2019

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Released: 15 November 2019

Duration: 42 minutes, 24 seconds

Our guest on Burst 19 in 2016, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, returns to give us an update on the vanishing star, following the release of a new paper detailing a much more ambitious project along the same lines that finds a number of new candidate objects.

For more information, please visit https://wowsignalpodcast.com

Links:

Burst 19: Our Sky Now and Then

Villarroel+: The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project: I. USNO objects missing in modern sky surveys and follow-up observations of a "missing star"

The POSS-I Survey

Pan-STARRS

Chasing Disclosure (work of fiction that mentions the earlier research)

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky and Jason Robinson

Announcer: Erin Carr

This podcast is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike license.