Exciting news – http://space.io9.com/was-that-just-a-gamma-ray-burst-1582373688

Nature blog post – http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/rare-cosmic-blast-sends-astronomers-racing-to-telescopes.html

I love these blog posts –

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/bill-dunford/20140512-another-day-in-the-solar.html

Because bacon is awesome: http://gizmodo.com/bacon-was-the-first-thing-ever-eaten-on-the-moon-1561222954?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

I’m a big fan of Cosmoquest and their online star parties held via Google Hangout. Then a while back I learned about their efforts to crowd source lunar crater mapping, and best of all it required no experience OR actual understanding of astronomy 🙂 So I signed up and did a little mapping off and on.

I was excited to see this article by the Bad Astronomer in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/16/moon_mappers_citizen_scientists_count_craters_like_the_pros.html

I love when science is accessible even to those of us who have no real knowledge, but have a real interest in it. How cool is that?