Carnival of Space #480

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Welcome, come in to the 480th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. I'm Susie Murph, part of the team at Universe Today and CosmoQuest. So now, on to this week's stories!

Over at

Links Through Space,

they conclude a series of 7 articles on the Age of Astronomy with our last article of the

Ancient Astronomy Series: THE AGE OF ASTRONOMY. 7/7: Maps: Prehistoric Star map 10500BC

. This series focused on tangible evidence such as relics, artifacts, astronomical alignments and star maps found throughout the world establishing the age of Astronomy.

Over at the

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

site, check out

Monster Flares in Otherwise Ordinary Extragalactic X-ray Binaries.

Our friend Gadi Eidelheit from over at the Venus Transit has a video of

Eight Days of Sunrises

over on YouTube.

Blasting News

has the following stories this week:

Donald Trump advisors roll out a new space policy

Latest Chinese space mission highlights a challenge to America

New version of 'impossible' EM drive patented in Great Britain

http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2016/10/china-launches-the-first-shenzhou-manned-space-mission-in-three-years-001189275.html

Planetaria

highlights

Juno spacecraft peers deep into Jupiter's atmosphere before entering safe mode

And finally, some scary stories from

Universe Today

:

Boo! A Black Moon Halloween Weekend

MIT Claims they are Programming Humanoid Robots to help Explore Mars. But we all Know It's Cylons!

That's it for this week - have a Happy Halloween!

And if you're interested in looking back, here's

an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space

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