Carnival of Space #100!

Do a quick Google search for blogs about space and astronomy and you’ll find that there are literally thousands of them. How are you supposed to keep up? Turns out it’s pretty easy – you go to the “Carnival of Space”! Every week a different astronomy- or space-related blog gathers together the best of the previous [...]

How to make a solar system…

Eddington AS is planning an exciting and fun family-friendly event for the International Year of Astronomy 2009..! All the details are here… http://ksssm.wordpress.com Let me know what you think!

Mercury and Moon seen – briefly…

Well, Stella and I managed to catch a brief – a VERY brief! – glimpse of Mercury and the Moon shining together in the sky above Kendal last night. The clouds were basically taking the p, coming and going exactly where the Moon and Mercury were, while the rest of the sky was wonderfully clear… [...]

Mercury and Moon shining together tonight…

If the sky’s clear this evening, take a look to the west and you might – if your horizon in that direction is uncluttered and low – see something very pretty… Tonight a very, very thin crescent Moon will be shining just above the elusive planet Mercury at dusk. Not only that, but the Pleiades [...]

Look through a “Portal to the Universe”…

Wouldn’t it be useful if there was one site you could go to for a snapshot view of the best space-related webcams, blogs and sites? There is! “Portal to The Universe“

Another HiRISE volcanic treat!

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday – don’t take newly released HiRISE images at face value when they appear on the HiRISE site. Images that appear to be a bit, well, “ho hum” can actually be just tiny parts of a much more wow-some view that’s worth some serious exploring. This is one of the [...]

HiRISE zooms in on Pavonis…

The HiRISE camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconaissance Orbiter has done it again – sent back a stunningly detailed image of a fascinating part of Mars, that is… Anyone and everyone “into space” has heard of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars and, probably, in the solar system. But fewer people know the names Ascraeus, [...]

If Altair fails, the Eagle might land..?

Im sure you’re well aware of NASA’s plans to Return to The Moon around 2020, using the shuttle replacement “Orion” Crew Exploration Vehicle, and the next generation lunar lander, “Altair”. Plans are pretty well advanced on these programs, test flights are being scheduled and everything… and yet… Not everyone in NASA – or the wider [...]

Carnival of Space #99

… is now online and available for your reading pleasure, over at “Alice’s Astro Info“… Alice has done a great job with the Carnival, so go catch up with the best of the week’s space blogging!

Kepler opens a window on Mankind’s future…

** Welcome to Carnival of Space #100 readers! ** As you read this, far out in space, way out in the Deep Black, after its dust cover was ejected succesfully, the first glints of starlight have streamed down into the Kepler telescope, been collected by its CCDs and turned into images. Here’s the first image released by [...]