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[/caption] In response to last week’s incredibly popular “Blue Marble” image, NASA and NOAA have released a companion version, this one showing part of our planet’s eastern hemisphere. The image is a composite, made from six separate high-resolution scans taken on January 23 by NASA’s recently-renamed Suomi NPP satellite. From the description on NASA Goddard …
With space bloggers scattered around the globe, the 209th edition of Carnival of Space provides something a little different: John Williams from Starry Critters hosts this week and uses his TerraZoom know-how to create a Google Maps carnival, where you can click on a marker and space news will appear. Check it out at Starry …
Moving on into the second centum of space Carnivals, a brand new CoS is hosted by John Williams over at StarryCritters. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #201. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should …
Credit: NASA Are you enjoying the historic images of space shuttle Endeavour docked to the ISS? Here’s a wonderful new way to experience them. John Williams of Terrazoom and StarryCritters has created an amazing “zoomable” slide show of these images, which allows viewers to quickly zoom into whatever part of the picture you want to …
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This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by John Williams over at Starry Critters. Click here to read Carnival of Space #180. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry …
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by John Williams over at Starry Critters. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #171. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an …
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted John Williams over at his wonderful site full of visual treats, Starry Critters. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #149. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really …
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by John Williams over at Starry Critters. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #141. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an …
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by John Williams over at Starry Critters Click here to read the Carnival of Space #131. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an …
The winners of the 15th annual “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” competition have been announced at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich England. The annual competition features some of the best space photography taken by amateur astrophotographers from around the world. For the 2023 competition there were over 4,000 entries from 64 countries. Our lead image …