Plonck reaches a milestone in space this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Ad Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Jan Tauber is the project scientist for the European Space Agency's Plonck mission.

They'll take a few minutes to describe this most sensitive ever look back at the birthpangs of our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.

Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, will tell us about his recent trip to Puerto Rico

and our planet's biggest radio telescope dish.

Later, Bruce Betts will serve up some ham, as he tells us about the current night sky.

Planetary Society blogger Emily Lautualla is ready to share her news of the solar system.

Emily many things to pick from in the blog over the last few days.

Some great contributions from some of our colleagues including Amir Alexander,

reviewing what looks like a really good new book about

the WOW signal that that great SETI result never to be repeated at least not yet.

But there are a couple of pieces that you did. I'm going to look back more than a week actually for the first one for this piece you titled, Is There Life on Venus? Hard to believe.

Yeah, there isn't certainly isn't any life in the

reprocessed Venera 13 images that a senior Russian researcher published a

paper about a couple of weeks ago and generated a lot of buzz on the internet because he was asserting that these

forms that he saw in Venera 13's images were a scorpion and a disc and a shell-like thing and they were all signs that

maybe possibly there was actually life in those

Venera 13 images of Venus that were taken low these 30 years ago. You know it sounds

so crazy that it's not the kind of thing that I would usually spend my time on but

but the guy is actually a very

senior rather important Russian planetary scientist and so I did spend the time to read it and found

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