Five Acres with a View

Astronomy Picture of the Day has a very cool photo of the Monday Space Shuttle Launch.

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe.

Orion’s Belt: Scenes from Two Hemispheres.

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National Geographic writes about the “Blue Moon” which will  shine on New Year’s Eve this year.

Today,  the Big Picture presents Martian landscapes from the HiRise (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait writes about What Apollo means to me.

The Big Picture presents another of its fabulous photo-essays in Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com.

The Big Picture at Boston.com has some fabulous photos of the final service call by the Shuttle Atlantis to the Hubble Space Telescope. Bad weather has postponed the shuttle landing until Saturday.

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Venus is about to be hidden by the moon.