Astrosphere for July 11, 2007
One of my favourite astrophotographers, Tom Davis, captured this image of a less photographed region of Cygnus. Capturing the image and processing it turned out to be surprisingly difficult.
Colony Worlds reports on an interesting idea of solar balloons, and considers how they’d work on Mars.
Celestial Journeys has another cool hand drawn sketch. This time it’s Comet C/2006 VZ13 seen through 20×80 binoculars.
It’s not exactly jumping in the transporter, but Daily Galaxy is reporting that physicists have figured out a way beam atoms.
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