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Carnival of Space #400

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Welcome to the 400th Carnival of Space!  We’re running a day late, thanks to the Easter Weekend, but there’s a bumper crop of astronomy and space science news and articles to make up for it, so let’s dive straight in.First up, from the grand-daddy of astronomy news, Universe Today with some space imagery of the typhoon Maysak.  Photographer Terry Virts, from his temporary home on board the International Space Station reports that from up there the eye of the super-typhoon … Continue reading →

Missing the Eclipse

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Yesterday, my cousin sent me a little reminder about the Solar Eclipse coming up this Friday.  From her home in Scotland, she will have a good view of the partial eclipse, and she gently teased me about not having any way to see it myself from down here in Africa.  While I am disappointed at missing out, I’m not suffering too much because I’ve had much worse experiences that have pretty much hardened me against anything eclipse related. Back in … Continue reading →

Observer’s Guide – March 2015

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Urban Astronomer has been running for almost five years, and yet we’ve never published a guide to what you can expect to see in the sky.  Shocking.  So starting today, we’ll be posting a monthly guide to things worth looking for, with a bias towards the view from the Southern Hemisphere (because that’s where I live). This month is dominated by close encounters and conjunctions.  First, on the 2nd and 3rd day of the month, the Moon will be passing … Continue reading →

Carnival of Space #392

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Hey everybody, welcome to the 398th Carnival of Space, where I’m lucky enough to be your host for the week.  It seems to be a slow time of year so not too many submissions have been made, but that’s okay.  I like a more intimate performance! First up, from Dr. Schenk’s 3D House of Satellites, we have an article about the asteroid Ceres coming into view of the Dawn spacecraft.  Dawn is on a mission to study the largest minor planets … Continue reading →

Carnival of Space #388

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Welcome, everybody, to the second Carnival of Space for the year 2015. The carnival has been running for over six years now, and we continue to find new and amazing stories and contributors, so if you have any interest at all in space science or astronomy, this is the place to be! And if you’d like to join our stable of writers, just contact us via the link at the end to see if you qualify (spoiler: you do!) We … Continue reading →