Universe Today
Enough of this cold, wet January. Let's have some cold wet February. Your space photo for the day is this astonishing image of the International Space Station captured by Mike Salway. And here's a bonus. If you follow this link, you'll see two more images.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1.
Nancy looked back
here on Universe Today, but we're not the only ones to mark the day. Here are a selection of articles from
Cosmic Log
,
Astroprof
and
Space Politics
.
Spirit says, it's a rock.
And now you can get the T-shirt
.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day comes the
Young Cluster Westerlund 2
.
Astroblog has Comet Holmes
in thrilling stereo.
Daily Galaxy reports on
a new strategy
to search for wormholes and signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
If you've got some time on your hands, why not
go searching
for craters on Mars.
And finally, Visual Astronomy has
a video
of asteroid 2007 TU24's close approach to the Earth.
