The Carnival of Space Shows Off a New Frontier!

August 10, 2009

After the essential schoolboy giggle on reading the New Frontier News tagline, "Uranus is showing," I had a read of this week's collection of the best of the best posts from the space blogosphere in this week's Carnival of Space.

This week we have news about Kepler, a political Pluto, Iceteroids (my new, favourite made-up space name), an enraged astronomer, an investigation into South Korea's space aspirations (that should cheer up the North Koreans) and a Wolf-Rayet star that refuses to stay out of the limelight (I love that star).

But that's not it! There's shedloads where that came from, so boogie down to New Frontiers News and get your space blogging on!

The 107th Carnival of Space at Innumerable Worlds

June 16, 2009

I love the Carnival of Space.

I mean, where else can you find a collection of articles, on one page, that range from exciting exoplanets, menacing Mars, coasting comets, Apollo awesomeness, booming Betelguese, space elevator engineering, space shuttle shenanigans to sexy satellites?

Nowhere, that's where. Apart from over at Innumerable Worlds, a website devoted to the study of extrasolar planets.

The blog is maintained by Christopher Crockett, a PhD researcher from UCLA working at the Lowell Observatory. And this week, pre-Dr. Crockett does a mighty fine job of hosting the 107th installment of the Carnival.

Get over there to see what all the fuss is about!

The 105th Carnival of Space

May 31, 2009

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the 105th Carnival of Space on Discovery Space!

Thank you Fraser for letting me host this fantastic event once again! Also, a huge thank you to David Gamey over at Mang's Bat Page for the outstanding 104th Carnival he hosted last week.

I'm Ian O'Neill, and you may be forgiven in being a little confused. Isn't Space Disco Dave Mosher's gig?

Actually, it used to be, but Astroengine.com carried out an aggressive take-over to overthrow Disco Dave, and won! I now have two blogs. Plus I'll be continuing my writing for the Universe Today when I'm not pillaging other sites. You can never have enough space blogs in my opinion...

Happy 100th, Carnival of Space

April 28, 2009

The 100th edition of the Carnival of Space is now live!

Can't believe we've reached 100 space carnivals, and proud to have my lil' old post about small and insignificant we are in this week's anniversary collection.

Hop on over to the One-Minute Astronomer blog for the full scoop.

Photo: One-Minute Astronomer

Carnival of Space Numero 98 - Easter Edition

April 13, 2009

Fraser Cain over at Universe Today gave everyone a break by hosting the 98th Carnival of Space. Just two away from the 100th edition... wow.

The Carnival of Space, by the way, is a weekly round-up of the best space blog posts.

This week I sent in my entry about the creepiest space photo you'll ever lay eyes on -- click here to see/read.

Photo: Universe Today

Carnival of Space #94: Exoplanet Edition

March 08, 2009

Reading a great blog post about space is great, but what if you could read all of the best each week in a single, tight post?

Well, that's the Carnival of Space!

This week's -- the 94th -- is chock-full of planets over at The Planetary Society Blog by Emily Lakdawalla. Our planet, plus all of the ones NASA's Kepler Mission will soon start scouting for. Click here to read.

I submitted my post about the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast I created about the size and scale of the universe.

Photo: Planetary Society Blog

Warning: Double-Wide Carnival of Space

March 03, 2009

This week's Carnival of Space -- the weekly round-up of the best space blogs from 'round the Web -- is so hefty that it had to be split into two posts at the Launch Pad blog (the official Google Lunar X PRIZE blog).

Ok, so I'm twisting the truth a bit...

What actually happened was a technological glitch causing a bunch of bloggers (myself included) to be missed. So Mike Fabio graciously put up a second post.

Hop on over by clicking here AND here; I entered my post about renaming the upcoming mission to Jupiter "Clarke" after my all-time favorite science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke.

Photo: The Launch Pad

Another Big Carnival of Space

February 22, 2009

Yet another fine Carnival of Space is up and running at Next Big Future, a blog about technological progress by Brian Wang.

Click here to be magically transported there.

This week I asked Brian to point readers to my post about how string theory -- for the first time -- may have real experiments scientists can explore its ideas and predictions with. Very cool stuff.

Oh, and for all of you new to the Carnival of Space, it's quite simply a weekly round up of space bloggers' top posts from across the Web. Want to join in? Click here.

Photo: Next Big Future

Lovey-Dovey Carnival of Space

February 16, 2009

The 90th Carnival of Space -- a weekly round-up of the best space blog posts out there -- is live at 21st Century Waves.

Bruce Cordell gave it a Valentine's Day spin (click here for the post), seeing as the carnival was posted on February 14.

My pick for this week was the post about a hot-tempered magnetar. (What's a magnetar? The super-squished core of a dead star that spins extremely fast and puts off some insane magnetism, of course!)

Photo: 21st Century Waves

Carnival of Space 89: The Lunar Edition

February 08, 2009

How dare Darnell Clayton of the Moon Society Blog deem the 89th Carnival of Space -- a weekly collection of the best space blog posts from around the Web -- as "Carnival of the Space Geeks."

Ok, so maybe we are geeks.

But even if you're not a geek, you should check out Darnell's post -- click here.

I threw in my post about COROT-Exo-7b, a small and rocky exoplanet about 450 light-years from our little nook in the cosmos.

Enjoy!

Photo: Moon Society Blog