Astrosphere for October 2, 2007

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Today's astrophoto was captured by Mike Salway. It's the Milky Way. Wow.

Here's a new blog that I'm watching:

Black Holes and Astro Stuff

. In other words, space bloggers are contacting me, and letting me know they exist. And you should do the same. Email me at

[email protected]

. That way I can help you out and raise awareness of your hard work.

Personal Spaceflight has an interesting story about the trials and tribulations Anousheh Ansari went through

to become a space tourist

.

Pamela looks at a group of galaxies called

Seyfert's Sextet

. It looks like an important stage in galaxy evolution.

CNet has this

interview

with X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis.

My blogging comrades over at Wired News have wrapped up a contest for people to choose a new tagline for NASA. I won't spoil it for you, check out the top entries.

Phil finds

a garden shaped like a galaxy

.

The 2007 Spaceward Games are just two weeks away.

And finally, a community of space enthusiasts are building a fictional galaxy, star by star, planet by planet. It's called the

Galaxiki

, and it's one of those wiki things, where the public is able to freely edit it.

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.