Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadian readers. Mmmm, turkey.
Today’s astrophoto is Saturn, captured by Paul F. Campbell. I like this image because it reminds me of what you see when you look through a nice telescope at Saturn. Although, this image has better clarity of the rings and bands on the planet than what you’d see in the eyepiece.
It was a crazy, yet awesome idea. Build a 200+ kg model of an X-Wing, affix 4 powerful rocket engines, and blast it off. It started out well, and then things went wrong.
Astroprof reviews a handheld planetarium called Pocket Stars.
Need some kind of currency when you head up into orbit? Check out the Quid.
SPACE.com has a great article profiling the upcoming X-Prize Cup.
Got a lot of time on your hands? Try making this scale model of the Sputnik rocket. Thanks to the Rocketry Blog for the tip.
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