Back to the astrosphere. Today’s image is M42, captured by Mike Salway. He thinks it’s the best one he’s ever taken of this complex object.
First, I’d like to announce the Carnival of Space #29. This week it’s held at Riding with Robots on the High Frontier. A big thanks to Bill Dunford for hosting it this week. If you’d like to participate in the Carnival of Space, you can email an entry to carnivalofspace@gmail.com. And we’d love to have you as a host. It’s a great way to meet other people in the space blogging community and raise awareness to your blog.
We just did an episode of Astronomy Cast about Uranus, and Astronomy.com’s blog notes it’s William Herschel’s birthday. I wish I could claim that was our plan all along.
Alan Boyle lists the winners of the Science Journalism Awards.
Astronomy Picture of the Day has an image of M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules. This is one of my favourite objects in the night sky, and it’s something I always show to people in my telescope.
I don’t have an easy way to categorize this, but I wanted to draw your attention to the wonderful USA Today’s Tech_Space blog, written by Angela Gunn.
Daily Galaxy has a list of 5 things you didn’t know satellites were watching.
Personal Spaceflight reports that there’s a new space tourism company in town.
Phil Plait gives that recent Earth-rise image taken by Kaguya some context. Now you know the craters the spacecraft is flying over.
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In 1978, NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais proposed a scenario where…
The JWST has found an exoplanet unlike any other. This unique world has an atmosphere…
While new rockets and human missions to the Moon are in the press, NASA is…
Dust grains older than the Sun can tell us about how supernovae enriched the cosmos…
Long-period comets can have orbits that can take hundreds of years before they return to…