This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog. Check out this week’s sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #456. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space, thanks to our […]
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Introducing the Partners: The Planetary Science Institute
The Planetary Science Institute studies the origin, characteristics and evolution of our solar system, including Earth, and the origin, characteristics, and evolution of the planetary systems of other stars, and conveys the resulting knowledge to the scientific community and the public at large. This knowledge is used to support and encourage both human and robotic […]
Poems in the heavens
Poetry is an ancient art, certainly predating written language. From the beginning, poets have described and wondered about the heavens: stars, planets, and the rarer transient events: eclipses, comets, meteors. And as our knowledge about the Universe has broadened, poetic descriptions have changed too. Sometimes studying the Universe can make us feel small, but poetry […]
Carnival of Space #379
Welcome to another round of the Carnival of Space! This is week 379, so settle in for a round-up of this week’s space science and astronomy news. We are of course, all anxiously awaiting the landing of Philae from the Rosetta spacecraft this coming Wednesday. In preparation, on Friday (Oct. 31), the European Rosetta mission […]
New CosmoAcademy online classes for 2014!
We are pleased to announce the start of our 2014 season of online classes at CosmoAcademy! Coupled with that, we’ve relaunched the site under a new address: CosmoAcademy.org . About CosmoAcademy Our class offerings The first class is Introduction to Dark Matter, starting in two weeks and taught by CosmoAcademy director Matthew Francis: Roughly eighty […]
Building a HUGE Telescope
Big science means big collaborations these days. Often, it takes many institutions and partners to probe the Universe deeper than ever before. Astronomy has been moving into the arena already occupied by physicists where it takes a big international collaboration to build a really big instrument. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) began as a dream, […]
Sidewalk Astronomy in Ngliman, Indonesia
Hi, I’m Avivah from Indonesia. I live in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. This is “officially my first story in Cosmoquest blog”. It’s a story about my trip to East Java ( I live in West Java). (more…)