It’s time for another link-round-up of space-related stories that we didn’t cover this week!
Consequences of the impending El Niño for 60 locations around the United States.
Science history! How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery
Building the Giant Magellan Telescope
Astronomy graduate students can apply for a summer school on Education & Outreach.
Astrobites asks, “How weird is our solar system?”
Preposterous Universe goes into more detail on inflation and gravitational waves.
…Preposterous Universe also has a list of current female science writers on a variety of topics that you might want to check out. (And if you are a female science writer, or recognize one who was left off, go ahead and leave note in the comments. It’s an openly-acknowledged incomplete list, so why not make it more complete?)
Recent free-flight tests of NASA’s Morpheus lander.
Image credit: NASA, as highlighted by Destination alpha Cygnus when celebrating the anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope launch this week.