Astrosphere for July 6, 2007

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Sorry for the bloglessness yesterday, I was running another load of stuff to the new house. Now all our stuff's together again, we just have to cram a house's worth of belongings into an apartment.

Here's another astrosphere:

Today's astrophoto is of Jupiter and its 4 easy-to-see moons. It was taken by forum member

Bokmakierie

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First, I'd like to point your browser towards

the Carnival of Space #10

. I didn't get an entry in this time around, but it's still good quality all around.

Becky Ramotowski

published her picture of Comet C2006 VZ13 LINEAR

Phil Plait

reviews the Transformers

to find some bad science and finds the movie surprisingly entertaining.

Daily Galaxy

has a story on the Theia Hypothesis. More evidence that

the Earth and the Moon were once the same.

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.