Want to know what’s been happening in the Universe this week? Get over to Carolyn Collins Petersen’s space and astronomy blog (a.k.a. “The Spacewriter”) for a SUPERB Carnival of Space. I’m not entirely sure where to start for week 88, there’s so much to choose from! In fact, looking at the number of entries, I’d say this is one of the largest turnouts so far. Wow, there’s a lot of science writing going on!
From Carolyn’s well-crafted peek into the space blogosphere, here’s a tiny fraction of articles that caused a derailment to my plans for getting any work done this afternoon (plus my first reaction, in a word):
21st Century Waves (Bruce Cordell): Long Waves and the Future of Human Spaceflight – Wow
Centauri Dreams (Paul Gilster): A Workable Fusion Starship? – Whoosh!
Space Video of the Day: Announcement by Pres. Regan after the Challenger disaster – Moving
Mang’s Bat Page (David Gamey): How You Could Pilot a Space Telescope (Upside Down) – Shiny!
Simostronomy (Mike Simonsen): Aperture Fever – Obsessed!
The Martian Chronicles (Ryan Anderson): The MOC “Book”: Introduction – Insightful
Starts With A Bang! (Ethan Siegel): Supernovae and Dark Energy: Part II – Aha!
There are loads more where that came from, so get your bums down to The Spacewriter and enjoy!
From Astroengine.com, I submitted my musings about the secret payload on that Delta IV Heavy… just why are clandestine launches so damned sexy?