After a protracted silence, the Carnival of Space returns, with this installment officially numbered 465. It’s a bumper crop this week, with more submissions than we’ve seen in a long time so let’s cut the frills and dive straight in to the content:
Continue reading →Welcome to the Carnival of Space, where we bring together the newest and most interesting space news for your weekly consumption. If you’ve been wondering when last week’s carnival was going to land, well we’re doing something a little different today! Pam Hoffman from Everyday Spacer and I have worked together for a double-release, meaning that you get not one but two carnivals! The first you can read here, on this page, and the second is over at Everyday Spacer.
Continue reading →And here we are again, with another Carnival of Space! As always, we bring you the past week’s very best writing on space science and astronomy, fresh from The Internet. Read on to find out what’s new in the Universe!Our first submission comes from last week’s host, Gadi Eidelheit of The Venus Transit. As an astrophotographer, he has been trying for some time to capture a recognizable image of the International Space Station, and finally he’s managed! Then comes Universe … Continue reading →
Welcome back to Urban Astronomer for the 447th Carnival of Space! Regular readers of this site who might be wondering why the Carnival seems to be all we cover recently, should stay with us to the end – we have exciting announcements to make about the future of Urban Astronomer. Meanwhile, for the rest of you, here comes the carnival. It’s a small offering this week, but it’s all good stuff so let’s get on with it. First up, from … Continue reading →
The Spacewriter introduces the “discovery” of a large planet deep in the Kuiper Belt, by Konstatin Batygin and Pluto-Killer Mike Brown. She walks us through the process that began with giving those two astronomers the idea that there might be something to look for, and ended with their announcement of it’s likely mass and orbital characteristics. It’s important to remember that, so far, this is just a theoretical prediction, although astronomy has a decent track record of discovering objects through exactly this … Continue reading →
