The Carnival of Space is a traveling list of the week’s best astronomy blog posts as submitted by bloggers from around the world. Our buddy Ray Sanders is hosting the Carnival of Space over at his blog, Dear Astronomer. There are a lot of great stories this week, including: Astrophotography with simple equipment Coverage of […]
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Strong Foundations
It’s amazing how much we fail to appreciate the little things that make the big, complicated projects work. Sometimes, even getting concrete poured is a big milestone for a huge project. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) pathfinder MeerKAT announced that its foundations are complete for new radio telescopes to serve as a lead-up to the […]
LRO Waves at LADEE
In the last few years, we’ve had a lovely little run of spacecraft photographing each other on other worlds. There was the Phoenix lander on Mars, photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during descent and after landing. Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity have all been spotted as rovers get bigger and orbiting cameras get better resolution. […]
Supernova Alert!
TL;DR: A white dwarf supernova was just discovered in the nearby starburst galaxy M82. Details are still coming in, but this will be an excellent chance to study this type of system up-close, plus it may come within visual range of your backyard telescope. And here it is, courtesy of @NickAstronomer I should have been […]