This week in space: SpaceX test fires it's newest prototype, star-sails made of foamy carbon, and did a supernova cause an extinction level event?

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Spacepod: Getting curious with Dr Fraeman

From the video store:

SpaceX prototype SN6 test fires

First launch to polar orbit from Florida since the 1960's:

....and from a different viewpoint:

Reading material:

White dwarf matter created in the lab

Could carbon foam let us build starships powered by sunlight?

Did a supernova cause a mass extinction?

China orbits new Earth monitoring satellite

Carrington event still stands as a warning of the Sun's power

Tropical storms tracked from space:

Terra Environment monitoring satellite sees california swathed in smoke