EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News

This episode has everything! Creepy hands, cats, white dwarfs, and a whole lot of Pluto-sized worlds (from the past).

This week we look at the weird results in space science. From looking at how wildly different images from different IR telescopes can be colorized, to worlds colliding, to white dwarfs of unusual size ,and even to Earth's crust on the move, the news was surprising and sometimes a tad bit horrifying. And we present all of it here.

This week we're doing a weather check.

Join us as we bounce between the geology behind the recent landslide in Nepal and Tibet, the joy of Saturn's south pole forming a decagon, the frustration of both US and Russian space programs having launch capacity issues, and the good news of BepiColombo getting ready to enter Mercury's orbit.

In this special episode, funded by the National Science Foundation, we're taking a break from the headlines to study the changing anatomy of a comet.