Welcome, come in to the 540th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. So now, on to this week’s stories!

First up, Chandra Reveals the Elementary Nature of Cassiopeia A over at the Chandra X Ray Observatory Blog.

Then, we visit The Venus Transit where we read about the Supermoon rises sunsets and halos. Cold weather and high clouds doing great for the urban stargazer.

Next, we return here to Universe Today. Matt Williams shares
that a Monster Black Hole Seen Shortly After the Big Bang. Next up, Matt asks Earth and Venus are the Same Size, so Why Doesn’t Venus Have a Magnetosphere? Maybe it Didn’t Get Smashed Hard Enough. Finally, Matt details how Astronauts in Trouble Will be Able to Press the “Take Me Home” Button.

Over at CosmoQuest Jennifer Grier shares another CQ Science – Post 6: Simple to Complex about craters! Check out their mapping projects – you can map craters on the Moon, Mercury or Mars!

Thank you for all of your stories – we’ll see you next week!

And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry to carnivalofspace@gmail.com, and the next host will link to it. It will help get awareness out there about your writing, help you meet others in the space community – and community is what blogging is all about. And if you really want to help out, sign up to be a host. Send an email to the above address.

Susie Murph

Susie Murph is the Communications Specialist at CosmoQuest. She also produces Astronomy Cast and the Weekly Space Hangout, and is the former producer of the Parsec Award-winning Guide to Space video series.

Recent Posts

White Dwarfs Could Be More Habitable Than We Thought

White dwarfs are the remnants of once brilliant main sequence stars like our Sun. They're…

1 hour ago

Dramatically Decreasing the Time it Takes to Measure Asteroid Distances

We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close…

4 hours ago

Should Astronauts Add Jumping to their Workout Routine?

It’s a familiar sight to see astronauts on board ISS on exercise equipment to minimise…

9 hours ago

Do We Live in a Special Part of the Universe? Here’s How to Find Out

One of the basic principles of cosmology is the Cosmological Principle. It states that, no…

9 hours ago

A Hyper Velocity Star Found with an Exoplanet Hanging on for Dear Life

Hypervelocity stars have been seen before but NASA scientists have just identified a potential record-breaking…

22 hours ago

Efforts to Detect Alien Life Advanced by Simple Microbe Mobility Test

Finding alien life may have just got easier! If life does exist on other worlds…

23 hours ago