CNN.com: Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/vint-cerf-interplanetary-inter... #space
Time.com: Where in the Universe Is Voyager? The Surprising Showdown Over Where Our Solar System Ends http://science.time.com/2013/03/21/where-in-the-universe-is-voyager-the-... #science
CNN: Welcome to the year of the comet (we hope) http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/02/us/comets-2013/index.html #space #science!
Will 2013 be the Year of the Comet? Let's hope so. http://waitingforison.wordpress.com/comet-observing/ #science!
LATimes: Beneath 50-foot ice layer, an Antarctic lake full of life http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-beneath-50foot-... #science
Rocket Strike Moon! CNN: U.S. had plans to nuke the Moon in the 1950s. http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/28/u-s-had-plans-to-nuke-the-moon/ #risk2210 #space
Discovery News: The Rise of the Zombie Nebula http://news.discovery.com/space/zombie-supernova-121121.html #science #netheads
The Rings of Earth
"What Earth Would Look Like with Saturn's Rings" is a YouTube video that gives Earth its own ring system. It provides views of the planet and rings from space ... but then takes it a step further and shows what the rings would look like from the planet's surface (a thin edge rising through the sky on the equator, a wide band near the poles). Very, very cool.
CNN.com: 32 planets discovered outside solar system
According to CNN, thirty-two new planets have been discovered outside of our solar system, bringing the grand total to 400. I've got to say that as a science fiction geek and space enthusiast, I love that we live in a world in which we've confirmed the existence of so many exoplanets. I can't wait until we reach the next stage: identifying terrestrial planets with Earth-like atmospheres.
Reuters.com: NASA rolls out new moon rocket for test flight
According to Reuters.com, NASA's Ares 1-X rocket -- the proposed successor to the space shuttle, and a scaled down version of the rocket that could return the U.S. to the moon -- is being rolled out to its launch pad. It's scheduled to be launched on October 27th and you can be sure I'll be near a computer to watch a live stream on that day.