Carnival of Space #557

Hi All and welcome to a new Carnival of Space.

I will start with a new photo I too of the winter Hexagon about a month ago

The winter Hexagon

And for this week articles

From UniverseToday:

• Astronomers Just Found 72 Stellar Explosions, but Don’t Know What’s Causing Them
• Launching Rockets from Balloons is About to be a Thing, But We Need a Better Name than “Rockoons”
• NASA Begins Construction of its New Quiet Supersonic Plane
• NASA Simulates Their Orion Abort System. Now That Would be a Crazy Ride

From TheHill:

• Two asteroid missions will help shape the economy of the 21st century

From Chandra:

• Perseus’s Cosmic Dance Helps Reveal the Secrets of Galaxy Cluster Astrophysics

From HotPopRobot:

• We're very pleased to have Grade Six-er, Artash Nath, deliver a bilingual address at the 2018 #TorontoMarchforScience! He'll be marching with us this Saturday, April 14th; and you should too! Check out his full bio at http://sciencemarchto.ca 

Here are two photos of the same object I took to demonstrate the importance of being tracked.

M45 30 seconds exposures all smudged up

M45 30 sec no tracking

The same with proper tracking - 110Sec exposure!

M45 110 sec with tracking