Category Archives: Cosmos
only a paper moon
Adam “Ape Lad” Koford alerts us to only a paper moon, a haunting collection of century-old studio photos employing the classic paper moon prop. As Adam points out, there’s some excellent faces among these pictures — mostly on the subjects, … more…
lunar eclipse with star
lunar eclipse with star, turfcutter, 2007 Pictures of the recent lunar eclipse are now showing up on Flickr, but none of the latest batch rival this composite image by turfcutter, posted in March. This picture captures the colours I remember … more…
links for 2007-07-18: planetary alignments, conservatives
Crescent Moon, Venus, Regulus, Saturn conjunction, 16th July 2007 over Pony Express Lake, Osborn, Missouri, by Dan Bush (via APOD) (tags: astronomy sunsets crescent-moon venus saturn, regulus) AlterNet: Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t … more…
links for 2006-12-20: natural nuclear reactors, ball lightning, cash crop, ISS, behavioural separation
Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors – Fact Sheet (tags: nuclear reactors waste Africa geology) Texas State professor probes ball lightning phenomenon (tags: ball_lightning AtD Dahlia_Rideout) All-time high for homegrown as pot becomes top cash crop in US | Special reports | … more…
Neal Pollack — Science Friday
I hadn’t visited Neal Pollack’s site in I really don’t know how long. Found a link in Ye Old Blogrolle, and yes, he’s still doing the business. Recently, Neal Pollack and son have been brainstorming on cosmology: Elijah in the … more…
Dark Matter ‘Official’, and The Pioneer Anomaly
This Slashdot post appears to announce some kind of empirical validation of the existence of Dark Matter, and (possibly) refuting the theories which held Dark Matter to be the result of misunderstanding the effects of gravitation at distance. The main … more…
Meteor near miss
Also from today’s Daily Bleed: (August 10th) 1966 — Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere & leaving it again. (Some say it was in 1972.)
little man, you’ve had a busy day
I was up and about at 5.30 this morning, feeling fine, and happily sat down to work. I’ve spent most of the last, what, sixteen and a half hours on this blog, and I require a pat on the head, … more…
Celebrating the Sabbath in space
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Celebrating the Sabbath – in space Israel’s Science Ministry has said it is investigating ways to allow Colonel Ilan Ramon, the country’s first astronaut, to cast his ballot aboard the space shuttle … more…
Leonid shower washed out
It looks like I’m staying up late to no avail; there’s low cloud and ground mist, there’s little wind, and I can’t even see the full moon, nor the nearby TV mast at Crystal Palace, let alone the biggest meteor … more…