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I just wanted to give you all another gentle reminder about the Aurigid Meteor Shower, due to light the heavens on September 1st, 2007. Although the shower won’t peak until early tomorrow morning, astrophotographer John Chumack has already captured one on camera, and made a little video of its path through the skies. Now, we …
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Today’s astrophoto for the astrosphere is of Hoag’s Object, captured by RickJ. This is a difficult galaxy to capture with an amateur telescope, so nice work Rick. Sshhhh. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of the Universe. A levitation device? Oh, now that would be cool. There’s a great 6-page article over at Newsweek …
Today’s astrophoto is supplied by forum member andyschlei. It’s a great photo of M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules. The photo was taken using a C-11 telescope, with a total exposure time of 37.5 minutes. You’ve heard about the dust devils on Mars, but they’re actually much larger than even tornadoes here on Earth. …
The carnival is back in town. Once again, I’m happy to host all manner of space blogs with the Carnival of Space. This gives you a chance to see how there’s a great big Universe of space writing out there. It’s a big group this week. On the 38th anniversary of the first Moon landing, …
Today’s astrophoto is brought to you by stargazer_7000. It’s an image of M27 taken with a 9″ telescope. Darker Matter has a fascinating story about the potential development of generation spaceships that humans could use to colonize other stars. This isn’t a space story, it’s an energy/environment story, but I really enjoyed it. Rolling Stone …
Today’s astrophoto is brought to you by bloodhound31, it’s a photo of the Triffid Nebula. Centauri Dreams is reporting on an interesting theory to explain mass extinctions in the past: the Sun’s rise and fall above the galactic plane. The Space Review has a cool article about the potential for using space guns to access …
Today’s astrophoto was taken by Nowhere Man. It’s a nearly complete ring around the Sun, but he doesn’t actually know what it is. Do you? Don’t look now, but the Sun is trying to kill you! According to Daily Galaxy, the Sun might be an invisible killer. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just …
Finally, RickJ’s run of astrophotos comes to an end. Now we’ve got this cool picture of Jupiter imaged July 18th with Meade LPI telescope. Good work AutoClub There might not be liquid water on the surface of Mars, but is it in the Kuiper Belt? Centauri Dreams explores. Space politics discusses the debate between spaceplanes …
Astrophotographer RickJ completes a hat trick. 3 photos in 3 days. This latest one is of cluster Leo I. While he was taking the photo, there were also 5 different asteroids in the picture. This week’s Carnival of Space #12 is hosted at the Music of the Spheres. As if flying to space wasn’t expensive …
Today’s wonderful astrophoto is from RickJ. That’s two in two days Rick; nice going. It’s a snapshot of M81, tearing apart another galaxy, Holmberg IX Beverly Spicer at EarthSkyBlogs writes about a really cool World Clock It’s the myth that just won’t die. I’ve already written about this every single year for 4 years now. …