Astrosphere for May 29, 2007

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Time for another turn around the astrosphere.

I know I went on and on

yesterday

about how I'm not able to attend the International Space Development Conference. Well, I'm going to continue living vicariously through the attendees.

And the busiest of the bunch is

Space Prizes

. Here are a torrent of posts, including:

X-Prize Cup details

,

Armadillo Aerospace

, and an

Automotive X-Prize

(100 mpg cars anyone?).

One of my favourite sites is The Space Review. Each week they've got a handful of really interesting articles and opinion pieces about space exploration. Here's an example from this week's issue, how

the CIA was monitoring the Soviet manned lunar program

by Dwayne Day.

And finally, here's a nice picture of the M57, the Ring Nebula, one of my favourite telescope targets. Thanks to

Vern's Weblog

.

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.