Astrosphere for December 12, 2007

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Welcome back to the Astrosphere. Your photograph for today is Eta Carina by winensky. Can you see the dancing lady on the right? I can actually see this one.

Yikes, this giant spider will destroy us all.

Futurismic talks about

the future of telescopes

, looking right back to the first moments after the dark ages.

For all you Americans wondering who to vote for, ATW Space is keeping careful track of the candidates' policies on space exploration.

Dynamics of Cats responds to a student looking for advice about grad school.

Celestial Journeys always has cool hand-drawn images of astronomical objects - this gives you a really good idea about what you'd see if you actually looked through the eyepiece of a telescope. No CCDs here.

Check out Comet Holmes

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke

celebrates his 90th birthday on Sunday, December 16th

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Astronomy Picture of the Day has an image of our

cosmic neighbourhood of galaxy clusters

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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.