Astrosphere for October 2, 2007

Today's astrophoto was captured by Mike Salway. It's the Milky Way. Wow.

Here's a new blog that I'm watching:

Black Holes and Astro Stuff

. In other words, space bloggers are contacting me, and letting me know they exist. And you should do the same. Email me at

[email protected]

. That way I can help you out and raise awareness of your hard work.

Personal Spaceflight has an interesting story about the trials and tribulations Anousheh Ansari went through

to become a space tourist

.

Pamela looks at a group of galaxies called

Seyfert's Sextet

. It looks like an important stage in galaxy evolution.

CNet has this

interview

with X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis.

My blogging comrades over at Wired News have wrapped up a contest for people to choose a new tagline for NASA. I won't spoil it for you, check out the top entries.

Phil finds

a garden shaped like a galaxy

.

The 2007 Spaceward Games are just two weeks away.

And finally, a community of space enthusiasts are building a fictional galaxy, star by star, planet by planet. It's called the

Galaxiki

, and it's one of those wiki things, where the public is able to freely edit it.