This Week in Space

It's time for the weekly edition of In Case You Missed It from the Space subsite paired with links from around the web of news we didn't cover here. It was a slow-traffic week for Space this week, so if you read something you like, pass it along to a friend!

• Quantum mechanics inspiring jewellery designs.
• Celebrating May the 4th with Star Wars science stories.
• A wee bit of love for the Cat's Eye nebula.
• Celebrating the anniversary of Alan Shepard's first spaceflight.
• Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with cool cloud patterns over Guadalupe.
• Video of a daytime fireball in Toronto, Canada.
• Star Wars on the red carpet as a Death Star evening gown.
• Real life Doctor Who/Star Trek/Ghostbusters crossover resulting in an acoustic tractor beam.
• The US climate change report is bad news.
• I got a bit obsessed with space junk, first finding it pretty, then researching the history of space junk, and finally finding junk crashed in Australia.
• I ran into a bit of trouble while playing the Kerbal Space Program.
• Tornado destruction traced out in a satellite image.
• The sun was downright interesting this week, with image releases of an unprecedented set of solar flare detailed observations, a weirdly soothing solar flare video, a geometrically striking coronal hole, and a new set of models of how our magnetic field blows in the solar wind.
• Tracking people chatting about sunrises on Twitter is surprisingly fun.
• A look at Titan from different heights in the atmosphere.
• An exploration of new technology for automatic hazard detection.
• The science of sinkholes, including the recent surge of car-eating sinkholes.
• Dinosaur-day extended beyond one day, looking at my first dinosaur, illustrating the Iguanodon, a national park dedicated to dinosaurs.
• Fossilized footprints are a fun mystery.
• The science in EuroVision songs.

Still not satisfied? Here's a look at planetary science news that I didn't cover this week:

• A deep-sea robotic explorer was lost despite a whole lot of safeguards, probably imploding in the depths.
• Photographs from a continental plate tearing apart.
• Why is seismic interpretation so difficult? This flowchart starts getting at the complexity of the problem.
• Fundamental principles of science in 140 characters.
• Carnival of Space #353

Top image: Nereus, the lost deep-sea explorer. Photography credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.