Greetings, fellow space nerds and geeks! For the US folks, I hope you have recovered from your turkey coma and are getting back to your regularly scheduled week. We’re getting ready to celebrate the longest night of the year here…
Tag Archive for carnival
On Black Holes, Dragons, and Yarn…
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 4 Comments
Oh. Uh, hello there. *Unburies self from pile of papers* Glad you are still here, reading this and such. My research took a turn for the busy in the last month (yay!) and now I’m focusing my attention on writing.…
Spacey links!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
This week’s Carnival of Space is posted on the lovely Spacewriter’s lovely blog. It has the real deal on the so-called “planet Tyche” fooferah, as well as the stunning pass of Stardust by Comet Tempel 1. And…. SPACE BEER! With…
Spacey Carnival Goodness
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
The Carnival of Space is back with edition #182 at Next Big Future after a month-long hiatus. It includes this lovely flyby of Phobos by Mars Express: And I am back after a week long hiatus during which I was…
Listening "Above the Sky"
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
While I was at the #SDOisGO tweetup, I got to meet a really cool, fun, and sweet musician who drove all the way through the snow down from Jersey to be there. Yes, I am talking about the lovely CraftLass!…
Telescopes from Space!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut currently living aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 23, loves sending back gorgeous pictures of the Earth and Moon via his Twitter feed, astro_soichi. This morning, I woke up to a lovely picture…
Spacey Carnival and the Ladies of Science
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
This week’s carnival, number 146, is hosted by Simostronomy! I was particularly entertained by the submission from Alice’s AstroInfo, where she compares her own planetarium repair experiences to the last Hubble servicing mission. At the time of the STS-125 mission,…
AstroJargon of the Week: Parsec
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 9 Comments
This week I thought I’d scale back from such a rich topic as AGN and tell you a little bit about the parsec. (In this case, I do not mean the podcast awards!) A parsec is a measure of distance.…
And the winner is… SPACE!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
The ever-fabulous Ian O’Neill hosts this week’s Carnival of Space #144. There are lots of great astronomical highlights from this week, but I’m particularly in love with this gorgeous multi-wavelength image of NGC 1068: via Chandra, Hubble, and the Very…
I love the Carnival of Space
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
The Carnival of Space #143 is up at Next Big Future! Get it? I love… 143? When I was in high school, before cell phones were popular, everyone (but me) had a beeper. We used silly little codes to each…
