This Week's Space

Stunning views of the planet we live on as seen from the International Space Station.

This Week's Astronomy

100,000 Stars is a new interactive from Google that is an amazing visualization of the universe. It can only be viewed in Chrome. I liked “taking a tour,” which you can click on in the upper left hand corner.

Source: Ferlazzo

This Week's Space

Use this link to access a 360º panorama from the Mars Curiosity Rover; it's amazing!

This Week's Astronomy

Supermoon: the closest, and therefore the biggest and brightest of the year

Did you notice the supermoon this weekend? Here is a collection of images of this phenomenon from around the world.

This Week's Astronomy

Nasa discovers two Earth-size planets outside our Solar System

Astronomers have spotted the two smallest, most Earth-like planets to be discovered outside our solar system. They are orbiting a star called Kepler-20 almost 1,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra. Reaching the two newly-discovered planets would take the fastest spacecraft more than 4m years. For more info, click here.

Source: The Guardian newspaper

This Week's Astronomy

Ham getting ready for lift-off. (He returned!)

The Early Days of Spaceflight is a most informative slideshow by the BBC.

This Week's Astronomy

Today is the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. The Guardian newspaper offers us a film tracking his journey. Click here.

This Week's Astronomy

Clear skies will reveal a "super moon" phenomenon on Saturday as the moon reaches its closest point to the Earth for almost two decades.  See here.

Source: The Guardian