Welcome to the Carnival of Space! This week’s edition is hosted by Stefan Lamoureux of Links Through Space, the official blog of the astronomy club in Kustavi, Finland. The carnival features a selection of the best online writing on space science and astronomy from the past week. Click on through here to visit the carnival!
Continue reading →Regular readers will know all about the Zooniverse stable of citizen science projects, where ordinary people volunteer their time online to help process large datasets. My favourite examples include Galaxy Zoo (sorting and classifying the millions of distant galaxies photographed in deep field surveys) and Moon Zoo (identifying and counting the billions of craters photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, to train computer algorithms to continue the task automatically). The idea behind all these projects is that modern research methods … Continue reading →
Neville Young, the Pretoria based creater of the StarWaders range of astronomy education products and author of the top-selling Astronomy Within Reach, recently did a pair of radio interviews for Radio 702 and Radio Namakwa. You can listen to the 702 interview here, and the Radio Namakwa interview in Afrikaans here.Or, you can just play them in the embedded YouTube clips below! 702 Radio Namakwa
Continue reading →This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by first-timed Pamela Hoffman of Everyday Spacer, so… Welcome Pam! The carnival features a selection of the past week’s best writing on space science and astronomy. Highlights include several discussions on future spaceflight plans, cosmology and real estate. Click the link below to visit the Carnival of Space: http://spacer.pamhoffman.com/carnival-of-space-285/
Continue reading →Far away, in the outer reaches of the Solar System lies the dwarf planet Makemake. Discovered in March 2005, it is about two thirds the diameter of the more famous dwarf planet Pluto. Like all dwarf planets, it is so far away and so small that we know very little about it. Astronomers have had to make a number of assumptions, one of which is that all these objects are similar in composition. It’s a reasonable thing to because those … Continue reading →
