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May 25, 2009

Carnival of Space #103

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Credits: NASA

 

Carnival of Space #103 is hosted by Megan Watzke at The Chandra Blog.

 

This week the focus is on the STS-125 mission, which is the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. You can also read about a 1970-planned lunar base, space-based solar energy, naming asteroids, and much more.

 

 

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May 12, 2009

Carnival of Space #102

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Carnival of Space #102 is presented in five acts at The Spacewriter’s Ramblings.

 

This week you can read about the Stardust mission, discoveries in the Saturn system, variable stars, ultra-long-period Cepheid variables, interstellar craft carrying frozen embryos, the David Dunlap Observatory, and much more.

 

 

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May 4, 2009

Carnival of Space #101

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Carnival of Space #101 is hosted by David Portree at Robot Explorers.

 

This week you can read about dark matter, the Hubble space telescope, solar sails, maverick scientists, near Earth objects, and much more.

 

 

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April 28, 2009

Carnival of Space #100

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Credits: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA

 

Carnival of Space #100 is hosted by Brian Ventrudo at One-Minute Astronomer.

 

This week you can read about the Kepler space telescope, Ky-Sat 1, brown dwarf stars, see spectacular images of Saturn, and much more.

 

OrbitalHub presents Q&A With An Alien Hunter, a Q&A session with Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute.

 

April 25 marked the 19th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has made more than 880,000 observations and taken over 570,000 images of 29,000 celestial objects. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

 

 

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April 19, 2009

Carnival of Space #99

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Credits: NASA/JPL/Dave Seal

 

Carnival of Space #99 is hosted by Alice Enevoldsen at AstroInfo.

 

This week you can read a book review for Seth Shostak’s Confessions of an Alien Hunter, about methods used to search exoplanets, the Big Eye on Palomar Mountain, shadows cast on Saturn’s rings… and the recipe for Alice’s delicious bread.

 

 

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April 14, 2009

Carnival of Space #98

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Carnival of Space #98 is hosted by Fraser Cain at Universe Today.

 

This week you can read a movie review for Moon, see the original pilot for Star Trek, read about the Martian adventures of MER Spirit, colliding dark matter, and much more.

 

 

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