The ARKYD Space Telescope kickstarter campaign has reached nearly 9000 backers and over $810,000 pledged towards their $1,000,000 goal.
Planetary Resources has been posting updates and new videos: ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources – Updates — Kickstarter
In this video
Chris Lewicki leads a conversation with a few of the technical staff at Planetary Resources talking about the Kickstarter campaign for a publicly accessible space telescope.
Here’s a review from Bruce Irving of several space related apps for the iPad device: iPad Astronomy – Music of the Spheres.
See also his free ebook, written with Andy McSorley, on the Orbiter spacecraft simulation program: Virtual Spaceflight – Go Play in Space
He includes a free presentation about the Orbiter: Go Learn in Space v2 – (pdf, 2.8MB).
This NASA JPL video shows radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2, which recently passed near earth, and of the asteroid’s moon rotating around the object:
Science Friday has an interview with Dan Durda, who is both a space scientist (at SwRI) and an artist: Out of this World – Justin Nobel/Science Friday.
I’ve had an entry in the HobbySpace Art section Space Art section for Dan from the beginning of the website. Dan had been using acrylic painting but now focuses on digital art. See his gallery at 3D Impact.
An improved view of our section of the galaxy indicates the solar system is in a major arm of the Milky Way after all: Our Solar System’s Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale – Susquehanna Astronomical Society.