Astrosphere for July 19, 2007

Astrophotographer RickJ completes a hat trick. 3 photos in 3 days. This latest one is of cluster Leo I. While he was taking the photo, there were also 5 different asteroids in the picture.

This week's Carnival of Space #12 is hosted at the

Music of the Spheres.

As if flying to space wasn't expensive enough already.

Now the price appears to be going up

.

Daily Galaxy has an interesting story about how the Solar System's position above and below the galactic plane

may be dangerous for life on Earth

.

Some physics can't be ignored, but that doesn't

stop science fiction writers.