Astrosphere for February 7, 2008

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Your photograph for today is the recent conjunction between Jupiter and Venus, captured by Shevill Mathers.

Starts with a Bang

looks at the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation's

inevitable slide towards the Radio Background.

A day without Astronomy Picture of the Day isn't a day. Today,

check out NGC 4013

.

Pamela Gay

reviews astronomy software

called "Where is M13".

There was a solar eclipse, did you notice? Ian Musgrave had the right perspective, and

caught

just a tiny snip taken out of the Sun.

Wired has a list of 10 technologies we could build if they

weren't so friggin expensive

.

Now this is thinking big. Next Big Future

has an article

about a rail gun system that could launch spacecraft into orbit.

Centauri Dreams

looks at Project Longshot

. A mission to send a probe to another star.

Do you have a space/astronomy blog? Let me know and I'll subscribe to your news feed. Write something cool and I'll link to it.

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.