Space Explorer

Just an FYI; I am removing Space Explorer from the blogroll. It appears that this blog cuts and pastes entire articles from new sites. That’s plagiarism bro, and it’s not going to remain on this blogroll.

Great Worldwide Star Count Results

Some of you may remember my post Fight The Light: Calling All Readers to participate in the Great World Wide Star Count.
There were over 6,600 observations by citizen scientists in over 60 countries! Here is a results map of North America… notice the diagonal string of lower star counts in the northeast region of the [...]

Awesome Astrophotographer

I found this guy while crusing the digital astro group on Yahoo.

Joe Carr has some photos in his astrophoto gallery on Zenfolio. Truly amazing photographs; I thought these were Hubble images or something!

Truly talented, I think this is the type of quality all astrophotographers should strive for. Great job Joe!

Holmes Revival

Johnny Horne from Sky & Telescopes Observing Blog captured this extraordinary example of comet 17P Holmes on 11/27 (when many websites reported it no longer visible to the naked eye). This is probably my favorite Holmes photo yet.
Check out the site and learn the details of how this photo was taken with a new Nikon [...]

Lights With No Sun

The ESA’s Rosetta, the first ever spacecraft whose destination is a comet, took this picture of the Earth at night. Large cities are clearly visible as mankind’s presence on this planet is clearly visible– even when the Sun is not.

Rosetta has a super complex trajectory is making its course to comet 67P Rosetta. This [...]

Flickr Find: Great Mars pic!

mars-11to15 Originally uploaded by chipdatajeffb
Great Flickr find here! Here’s an awesome webcam photo of Mars taken with a Phillips ToUCam Pro.
Just shows how incredibly awesome a webcam photo can truly be. Check out our web cam post, and be sure to view all the technical [...]

Flickr Find: Great Venus pic!

Venus, the Morning Star Originally uploaded by gainesp2003
I found this pic on Flickr and used it in my previous post about all the great new Venus stuff going on. I loved it so much, I wanted to make a post showing it in all its glory.
Check [...]

The Earth Without Humans

I found this interesting chart on one of my favorite blogs, The Daily Galaxy, on the recovery process of planet Earth if humans were eradicated completely. Not sure if it applies to this blog, but cool nonetheless.

Gift Idea: An Acre on the Red Planet!

Looks like there’s a hot new real estate market opening up… acre lots on the Red Planet!
That’s right friends, you too can own a piece of the red planet! For a mere $34.00, you can own an entire acre on the red planet itself.
Registration includes:

Letter of Proclamation

Property Fact Sheet

Full Color Photo of Mars

Lifetime registration in [...]

A Different Kind of Venus…

Venus recently seems to be a hot topic, and for good reason: the ESA’s Venus Express probe has been churning out some very interesting data. You can even check out our most recent Venus post titled The Oceans of Venus for even more information.

We know that the solar wind interacts with the hydrogen in Venus’ [...]