Carnival of Space 193

Welcome to the 193rd edition of the Carnival of Space.

We'll start out the Carnival with the most exotic objects in the universe: Black Holes. Last week's host Vega 0.0 explains the main features of a Kerr black hole.

Discovery Space news tells of a new visualization tool that helps to model the extreme nature of spacetime in colliding black holes.

Is it possible for life to exist within a black hole? Next Big Future says that it's possible.

Moving to only slightly less exotic objects, astroblogger Ian Musgrave looks for Nibiru while explaining some practical astronomy.

On the Road to Endeavour there is an eerie synchronicity in two photos, one taken on Mars and the other on Earth.

Closer to home Next Big Future has news of Moon Express, a Silicon Valley startup building robots capable of mining the surface of the moon for precious metals and rare metallic elements.

In other space commerce news, Urban Astronomer cheers on SpaceX for winning the contract to launch the next generation of Iridium satellites.

For a bit of space history, Vintage Space talks about the Saturn V - its genesis and why it was "lost".

Finally, Steve's Astro Corner looks through a Galileo telescope at Saturn, with surprising results.

That's it for this week's Carnival of Space. Carnival #194 will be held at the Planetary Society blog; if you want to be involved you can either send your entries to Emily at PSB or enter them in the Carnival of Space articles spreadsheet at Google Docs.