Astrosphere for July 11, 2007

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One of my favourite astrophotographers, Tom Davis, captured this image of a less photographed region of Cygnus. Capturing the image and processing it turned out to be surprisingly difficult.

Colony Worlds reports on an interesting idea of solar balloons, and considers how they'd

work on Mars

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Celestial Journeys has another cool hand drawn sketch. This time it's Comet C/2006 VZ13 seen through

20x80 binoculars

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It's not exactly jumping in the transporter, but Daily Galaxy is reporting that physicists have figured out a way

beam atoms.

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.