Astrosphere for February 4, 2008

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Your image for the day is NGC 1514, captured by Stargazer 7000.

Space Politics has a look at

NASA's upcoming budget

. There's going to be a NASA briefing later today, so we'll have more details soon.

Life everywhere? Centauri Dreams has an article about new research theorizing that

terrestrial planets are common

.

davep caught these

cool pictures of star trails

.

Astroprof talks about

Mercury's strange terrain

.

Bad Astronomy reviews the presidential candidates'

views on science

.

Caltech astronomer Mike Brown assures us he's

no fan of pseudo science

.

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.