Step right up; no need to crowd. Be one of the first to revel in all the strange and won­drous sights the uni­verse has to offer. For you, my friends, are about to expe­ri­ence the best astro news gath­ered from Earth’s inter­net, with a com­plete archive here.

If this is your first time at Star­ryCrit­ters, wel­come! Stick around for awhile and explore the uni­verse. Share with us what you see in the night sky. If you host a sci­ence or astronomy-related blog, you can take the big hat by host­ing the Car­ni­val of Space. Just write to our gra­cious host Fraser Cain of Uni­ver­se­To­day at info [at] uni­ver­se­to­day [dot] com. It’s a great way to par­tic­i­pate in a grow­ing com­mu­nity, and reach a wider audi­ence with your writing.

Now, right this way into the Car­ni­val of Space #149.

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Every­one should wan­der over to the Car­ni­val of Space #142 this week. Starry Crit­ters dives into the new Hub­ble, Spitzer, and GALEX image of inter­act­ing galax­ies that make up Hick­son Com­pact Group 31.

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Wel­come to the 141st edi­tion of Car­ni­val of Space. Hub­ble Top Star award-winner, Star­ryCrit­ters is host this week to the blogosphere’s most inter­est­ing astron­omy posts of the week. With Mardi Gras begin­ning Feb­ru­ary 16th, Galileo’s 446th birth­day on Feb­ru­ary 15th, and the 20th anniver­sary of Voyager’s Fam­ily Por­trait on the 13th, this is a great week to visit the Car­ni­val. Strap your­selves in, we’re going for a ride.

The (maybe not) last night launch of Space Shut­tle Endeavor seemed to cap­ture the com­bined enthu­si­asm of the world includ­ing Robert Pearl­man at Col­lect­SPACE. As I was fol­low­ing Nancy Atkinson’s tweets, I could tell the event left her speech­less. After col­lect­ing her thoughts, she had time to fill us in on her expe­ri­ence on her per­sonal blog. And since we have more than 140 words, here it is included for free.

The night launch of a space shut­tle is a won­der­ful sight, says Alan Boyle of Cos­mi­cLog. Sadly, it’s a sight we may never see again. The views gets even bet­ter when you’re in space. Tour space inside and out.

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Wel­come to the Car­ni­val of Space #131; the great­est weekly col­lec­tion of space-related blogs here on Earth and beyond! I’ll be your ring­mas­ter for the week.

Last week was Thanks­giv­ing here in the United States. With all the fes­tiv­i­ties, fam­ily time, trips to the sci­ence museum and indulging in the sweet stuff, I fell behind in keep­ing up with all the cool astron­omy going on. So I’m thank­ful I have this trav­el­ing car­ni­val to help me catch up and for the cheat sheet for chat­ting up astron­omy over the din­ner table pro­vided by AliceAs­tro at AstroInfo. Had I done much social­iz­ing, I’m sure this primer would have come in handy.

If you’re vis­it­ing Star­ryCrit­ters for the first time; Wel­come! I am a sci­ence writer, web designer/developer and a JPL Solar Sys­tem Ambas­sador. Star­ryCrit­ters, a NASA Top Star win­ner, was cre­ated mainly to help chil­dren use their imag­i­na­tions by cre­at­ing sto­ries from what they see in images taken by NASA’s Great Obser­va­to­ries, par­tic­u­larly Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. So explore the site and the uni­verse through the amaz­ing images. Use the tool to pan and zoom around the images. A but­ton on the far right of the tool­bar will cause the image to fill your screen with starry won­der. Feel free to play.

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