Astrosphere for August 7, 2007

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Today's astrophoto for the astrosphere is of Hoag's Object, captured by RickJ. This is a difficult galaxy to capture with an amateur telescope, so nice work Rick.

Sshhhh. Do you hear that? It's the

sound of the Universe

.

A levitation device? Oh, now that would be

cool

.

There's a great 6-page article over at Newsweek about Global Warming deniers. Having dealt with it myself, it was great to see a main stream media article that goes this deeply into the concerted effort by polluters to confuse the public.

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.