Universe Today
Host:
Fraser Cain
Special Guests:
Stephen Pakbaz, designer of the
LEGO Mars Rover Kit
, and Ray Sanders from CosmoQuest, who is unboxing and building the kit as we hang out!
Astrojournalists:
Morgan Rehnberg, Sondy Springmann, Elizabeth Howell, Casey Dreier, David Dickinson, Nicole Gugliucci, Mike Simmons
Today's Stories - we've got a whole bunch this week!
Casey Dreier (
planetary.org
):
Legislative Blitz in D.C.
NASA shuts down the ASRG program (plutonium-238)
Rosetta Wakes Up!
Sondy Springmann (
@sondy
):
Water on Ceres?
Nicole Gugliucci (
Cosmoquest.org
/
@NoisyAstronomer
):
Chang'e's Lunar Panorama
Supernova in M82
- and we've got footage of where we caught it on Sun, Jan 19, in the Virtual Star Party, but no one realized it was there!
Cosmo Academy
Elizabeth Howell (
@howellspace
):
Mock Mars mission
Will Spacewalks Happen On Expedition 40? NASA Undecided Due To Leak Investigation
Dusty, Windy And Damp: Five NASA Probes To Hunt Down Climate Change in 2014
Morgan Rehnberg (
cosmicchatter.org
/
@cosmic_chatter
):
Benchmarking NASA's quantum compute
David Dickinson (
@Astroguyz
):
The Moon meets Saturn this Weekend
Video of Venus thru Inferior Conjunction
Video of Jupiter rotation
Nearby Brown Dwarf Imaged
Mike Simmons (
Astronomers without Borders
): John Dobson bio
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.