Categories: Weekly Space Hangout

Weekly Space Hangout – May 9, 2014: Virtual Universes & Plants for Mars

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Guests: Scott Lewis, Morgan Rehnberg, Casey Dreier

This Week’s Stories:

Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter):
A virtual Universe (Illustris)
Cosmos
Rover Plants

Scott Lewis (@ScientificScott):
One Sky
New Earthrise photo

Casey Dreier (@exploreplanets, Planetary.org):
The House *Increases* NASA’s Budget by half a billion dollars
Planetary Science upped to $1.45B for 2015 in the House
SpaceX scrubbed launch

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page.

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast with Dr. Pamela Gay. Here's a link to my Mastodon account.

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