Before the skies are filled with bottle rockets and Roman candles, you may want to check out these blogs, then look to the skies.

Astronomer, teacher, lecturer, writer, and self-proclaimed skeptic runs the Bad Astronomer‘s site which, he states, is "devoted to airing out myths and misconceptions in astronomy and related topics."  Tom’s Astronomy Blog offers wonderful images and news of the stellar regions.  Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (SIUE) host Astronomy Cast, which airs weekly podcasts on astronomy.  You can also find them on iTunes.  If you want to follow someone’s observation logs, find links to other great astronomy sites, or see the sky from Lincolnshire, GB, visit Davep’s Astronomy.  For "scientific and other ‘neato’ projects in astronomy, geoscience, physics, and electronics," visit Dean W. Armstrong’s blog.  The moderator of Space Prizes defines the aim of his blog: "My goal with this site is to bring together these resources so a reader
interested in space, or similar, prizes can quickly appreciate the
whole of this potentially powerful approach to innovation."

Enjoy your weekend!

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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965 by Francis French and Colin Burgess and with a foreword by Paul Haney.