Carnival of Space #257
[/caption] This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by our pal and contributor, Ray Sanders at his Dear Astronomer blog.…
Podcast: Energy
Our entire civilization depends on energy: getting it, converting it, burning it, and conserving it. But how do physicists think…
The Return of the Rings!
Now that Cassini has gone off on a new trajectory taking it above and below the equatorial plane of Saturn,…
Mysterious Sounds Made by the Aurora Borealis
Caption: Swirling Aurora. Image Credit: Jason Ahrns There have been legends and folktales about sounds associated with auroae, but most…
Life and Death in a Tangled Web of Space
In a star-making nebula awash in a tangled nest of gas and glowing filaments, scientists have uncovered an interesting, previously…
Wildfire Smoke is Visible Even at Night from Space
The Whitewater-Baldy fire is the largest wildfire in New Mexico's history and has charred more than 465 square miles of…
Things on the Sun: Zipper, Airplane and Spots
Caption: ISS Solar Transit. Credit: Fred Locklear. A couple of awesome pictures of the Sun today from amateur astrophotographers: Above…
NASA To Launch The Finest Mirrors Ever Made
This Wednesday NASA will launch its High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) mission from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,…
Remastering a Cosmic Cat Print
Glowing red against a backdrop of stars, amateur astronomers have remastered one of the sky's most distinctive nebulae, the Cat's…
A Sci-Fi View from the ISS
What an awesome image of the Cupola on the International Space Station, with a view of Earth whizzing by! But,…