Astrosphere for November 15th, 2007

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Back to the astrosphere. Today's image is M42, captured by Mike Salway. He thinks it's the best one he's ever taken of this complex object.

First, I'd like to announce the Carnival of Space #29. This week it's held at

Riding with Robots on the High Frontier

. A big thanks to Bill Dunford for hosting it this week. If you'd like to participate in the

Carnival of Space

, you can email an entry to

[email protected]

. And we'd love to have you as a host. It's a great way to meet other people in the space blogging community and raise awareness to your blog.

We just did an episode of Astronomy Cast about

Uranus

, and Astronomy.com's blog

notes it's William Herschel's birthday

. I wish I could claim that was our plan all along.

Alan Boyle lists

the winners

of the Science Journalism Awards.

Astronomy Picture of the Day has an image of

M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules

. This is one of my favourite objects in the night sky, and it's something I always show to people in my telescope.

I don't have an easy way to categorize this, but I wanted to draw your attention to the wonderful USA Today's Tech_Space blog, written by Angela Gunn.

Daily Galaxy has a list of

5 things you didn't know satellites were watching

.

Personal Spaceflight reports that there's

a new space tourism company

in town.

Phil Plait gives that recent Earth-rise image taken by Kaguya

some context

. Now you know the craters the spacecraft is flying over.

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.