Carnival of Space #590

Welcome to the 590th 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. We have a fantastic roundup today so now, on to this week’s worth of stories!

Chandra X-Ray Observatory Blog

• Double Trouble: A White Dwarf Surprises Astronomers

Universe Today:

• The Large Hadron Collider has been Shut Down, and Will Stay Down for Two Years While they Perform Major Upgrades
• A Meteor may have Exploded in the Air 3,700 Years Ago, Obliterating Communities Near the Dead Sea
• Building Gas Stations and McMurdo Scale Outposts on the Moon
• New Gravitational Waves Detected From Four More Black Hole Mergers. Total Detections up to 11 Now
• SpaceX Uses a Thrice-Launched Booster to Send 64 Satellites Into Space.

CosmoQuest:

• CosmoQuest at AGU: Astrometry and Photometry with Transient Tracker
• CosmoQuest at AGU: Analyzing Integrity of Citizen Science Data
• CosmoQuest at AGU: CosmoQuest’s Citizen Science Builder v4.0: The Python Migration
• CosmoQuest at AGU: Effects of Incidence Angle on Crowd-sourced Crater Detection
• CosmoQuest at AGU: Citizen Science Online Behaviors
• What’s Up December ’18/January ’19

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

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