CARNIVAL OF SPACE #380 HERE YOU HAVE IT @ LINKS THROUGH SPACE

This week's Carnival of Space is blown away in the most desert parts of the globe.

The Sahara desert in Morocco.

Among this week's extraordinary space stories, we will be featuring here at Links Through Space an article on our preparations for our Expedition into the world of Meteorites

and Astrophotography in the Moroccan Sahara desert.

Please have a read and enjoy the carnival of Space #380.

Here are this week's Carnival of Space #380 space stories.

It's time for a crew swap on the International Space Station, with astronauts Reid Wiseman, Alexander Gerst, and Max Suraev returning home on an almost-perfect landing.
http://space.io9.com/ - Mika Mckinnon

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Gets Its Color From Sunlight, Study Suggests http://www.universetoday.com/ - Elizabeth Howell

Reprocessed view by Bjorn Jonsson of the Great Red Spot
taken by Voyager 1 in 1979 reveals an incredible wealth of detail.

NASA’s Next Exoplanet Hunter Moves Into Development

http://www.universetoday.com/ - Matt Williams

A Lighthouse at the Heart of the Milky Way: Hunting Cosmic Neutrinos

http://www.chandra.si.edu/blog/node/528 - Andrea Peterson

The IceCube Lab in March, 2012. Credit: Sven Lidstrom. IceCube/NSF

NASA X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory

http://www.chandra.si.edu/blog/node/527 - Megan Watzke

Cosmic Castaways’ Orphaned Stars Lighting Up the Universe in New Numbers
http://cosmoquest.org/ - tinyintern (but who is tinyintern?)

Artist’s conception of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Image Credit: MIT

TESS exoplanet-hunting space telescope ready for development
http://themeridianijournal.com/ - Paul Scott Anderson

After a 10-year, 4-billion mile journey to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G for short), the Rosetta spacecraft (which is now orbiting the comet) will drop a probe about the size of a kitchen range from a height of 13 miles.

http://fraknoi.blogspot.fi/ - Andrew Fraknoi

Astronomy Club Toutatis is preparing for an expedition in Moroccan Sahara desert.
The sequel of the astronomy trip of 2012 at Sahara Sky Observatory.
Links Through Space - Stefan Lamoureux

Sahara Sky Observatory and your host Fritz Gerd Koring.
credit: S. Lamoureux/KTY Toutatis.

This week's Carnival of Space #380 picture is a free wallpaper of a flying circus (used as blown out tent for carnival effect). Credit: S. Lamoureux/KTY Toutatis

So here you have it! All the thrills and excitements of the Astronomy/Space community.

The Carnival of Space #380

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Please have a read about Astronomy Club Toutatis Kustavi, Finland