Step right up for this week’s Carnival of Space, a weekly roundup of space blogs from around the Web.
View PostPinning the Planets
Between all the social media streams and the good, old-fashioned World Wide Web, there are lots of ways to keep up with happenings on the high frontier. Now there’s a new one, even easier than most. If you’re not already using it, Pinterest is the latest way to share stuff online. Simply put, it lets [...]
View PostGeyser Buzz!
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is quite possibly the most intriguing place in the entire solar system. This weird little world was once thought to be nothing but an unchanging ball of ice. That was until the robotic spacecraft Cassini discovered giant jets of water ice continually erupting from the moon’s south pole. Saturn explorers now [...]
View PostStrange New Worlds
“A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” —Madeleine L’Engle, in her Newbery acceptance speech, 1963 A Wrinkle in Time was published 50 years ago today. The novel was the first work of science [...]
View PostDon’t Fence Me In
Fellow robot rider Libby Norcross painted this fantastic portrait of yours truly. Other than the glasses this is, in fact, exactly what I look like.
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