This Week in Space #11

Astronomy Picture of the Day
December 21 - Horizon to Horizon. Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder (PixHeaven.net)
December 22 - Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky. Credit & Copyright: Danilo Pivato
December 23 - Moon and Mars Tonight. Credit & Copyright: John Harms
December 24 - Emission Nebula IC 1396. Credit & Copyright: Kent Wood
December 25 - Mars and Orion Over Monument Valley. Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com)
December 26 - Trifid Pillars and Jets. Credit: J. Hester (Arizona St. U) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
December 27 - Earth at Twilight. Credit: ISS Crew, Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Lab, JSC, NASA

Cosmic Log
The year in space

NASA Image of the Day
December 24 - Greetings From Apollo 8. Image Credit: NASA
December 25 - Snowflakes in the Universal Sky. Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, P. S. Teixeira (CfA)
December 26 - Trifids!. Image Credit: NASA, HST, WFPC2, J. Hester (Arizona St. U) et al.
December 27 - Earth at Twilight. Image Credit: NASA
December 28 - The Equal Night. Image Credit: NASA

Sky & Telescope
Odds of Mars Strike Now 1-in-25 by Kelly Beatty
That Was the Year that Was by Stuart Goldman
Sky Highlights of 2008 by Tony Flanders
This Week's Sky at a Glance by Alan M. MacRobert

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