TheEvolvingPlanet.com hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
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Suggestions on what to look for in the night sky this month courtesy of NASA JPL:
And a longer preview from the Hubble Telescope observatory:
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Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly created an elaborate song cycle show titled Planetarium, which I posted about back in 2013. Only had videos from a live show to post then. Here are official videos of two of the songs – Saturn and Venus:
Here is this week’s Space to Ground update from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
Astronaut Jeff Williams narrates a collection of beautiful pictures of earth that he took while on the International Space Station:
The first time you see Planet Earth from space, it’s stunning; when you’ve spent 534 days in space—more than any other American—it still is! On his most recent trip the International Space Station NASA astronaut Jeff Williams used an Ultra High Definition video camera that he pointed at the planet 250 miles below; here he shares some of those images, and talks about the beauty of the planet, the variety of things to see, and the value of sharing that perspective with everyone who can’t go to orbit in person.