Hey, everybody. Welcome to the weekly space hangout for February. What is it?

Eighth, two thousand. Yeah, 13. So today we've got a whole bunch of cool stories.

We're going to talk about, where's my list. Here we go. The failed search for extra

terrestrials, an amazing video and graphic on M106, the Galaxy. Curiosity drilling

away and a weird metal thing found on the surface of Mars. The mighty year of the

comets and a supernova precursor and whatever it is that Alan wants to talk about.

Where are you going to talk about Alan? Well, I can talk about asteroids or the Death Star.

Are you going to talk about the asteroid that's going to get me.

Okay, that sounds great. Okay. So joining me this week in no particular order are

Alan Boyle from NBC News. Where's your, where's this, Alan?

No, no, this. Oh, this is my sorry. Yeah, great.

Amy should have changed it up a little bit. Hello.

Amy shared a title from Vintage Space. We've got Nancy Atkinson from Universe

today. Nicole Galucci. Doctor, Dr. Nicole Galucci from the noisy astronomer from

CosmoQuest. We've got Dr. Phil Plate from Bad Astronomy and Slate. Slate magazines

Bad Astronomy and we've got Dr. Fadzebo from Serena's College.

Awesome. Alright, well, let's get started then. And now before we get into the story,

just to let everyone know, you can always ask us any questions and sort of dropping your

comments and feedback. There's about a zillion different ways that you can do it.

So we'll try and watch all of the places. You can use Twitter if you like that.

Just use the hashtag space hangout. You can, if you're sort of watching,

or if anyone's comments on Google Plus, you can post a comment there. If you're

...