Posts Tagged ‘space’

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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