An unprecedented opportunity to contribute to the state of astro-geology is being presented by the University of California at Berkely. You can participate in their stardust@home project to analyze aerogel images for interstellar dust grains that were returned to Earth a few days ago aboard the NASA mission Stardust. If you pass the training course …
Category Archives: Science & Space
Galactic Fireworks
The Cartwheel Galaxy is a spectacular galaxy. It was recently (in astronomic terms–something like 100 million years ago) run over and penetrated by a smaller galaxy which set off a round of star formation. For all the details from CalTech about the galaxy and how the put the image together, click on the thumbnail.
It Rocks! Literally!
Check out PartiallyClips for a rockin’ good cartoon.
Argument by Incredulity
A British philosopher was quoted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today saying, “A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature.” This philosopher, Antony Flew, has been a devout atheist (if that is not an oxymoron) for a good while now. Check out his wikipedia entry for …
Tangled Bank
For those of you not yet familiar with the concept of the blog carnivals, I’m not going to tell you about them. Instead, I’ll let you follow the links and discover for yourself. Instead of reading about blog carnivals, you can go to one and experience it! Try Tangled Bank on for size which is …
Freaky Cool Asteroid!
Monday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is of asteroid Itokawa, which is currenlty being examined by a Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa. This is a fascinating mission which involves a sample return, but that’s not why I’m writing this… Take a look at the image. The asteroid is nubbly! No craters! No smooth surface! It looks …
Thin Member Fracture (a.k.a. Fun with Spaghetti)
What do you do during your lunch break? Today, I decided to check out who was awarded the 2005 Ig Nobel Awards and for what. My favorite one of these was the alarm clock that runs away and hides, which I heard about on NPR a few weeks ago. I think it was on Morning …
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Complete Lunation
The Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 13, 2005 is spectacular!
NY Times' Bitch
Sometimes I feel like I’m the NY Times’ Bitch because so many of the leads I get for blog postings comes directly from their online news service. For example! Today they have an article about…Bird Flu [ominous music, kettle drums, etc]. Specifically about some questions raised by researchers into the 1918 Influenze epidemic that killed …
Never Look at the Sun!
Never Look at the Sun! Especially with a telescope in between you and it. Don’t believe me? Try the link and see what happens to a conspicuously eyeball-sized grape that is placed in front of the eyepiece of a solar telescope. This link seconded to me through the Bad Astronomy Blog.