Tag Archives: astronomy
Gliese 581
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet of similar size to Earth in orbit around a nearby star. A team of planet hunters spotted the alien world circling a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, 20 light years away. At … more…
you are here
APOD: 2008 June 6 – Two Armed Spiral Milky Way It’s been a good old while since I reposted an APoD. This one’s the largest scale “you-are-here” map I’ve ever seen, taking a point of view some thousands of light … more…
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today ยป A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)
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…
Antikythera Mechanism, revisited
It must be Enigmatic Box Day or something. News of the latest round of forensic investigation of the Antikythera Mechanism (blogged previously) has been released all over the place today, and confirms that the device was almost certainly used to … 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…
Sunspot pictures
Hand me down the thesaurus, Molly. These pictures of sunspots from the ROYAC Solar Group in Stockholm will require some attempt at variation on “impressive”. Lemme see now… affecting, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, commanding, distinguished, evocative, exciting, formidable, grand, grandiose, great, … more…
Earth’s little brother found
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth’s little brother found Astronomers report the existence of a 100m wide object which follows the earth’s orbit around the sun – although for the life of me I can’t work out how the physics … more…
Reality is a Gray Area in Astronomy
Why Reality is a Gray Area in Astronomy An entertaining piece on determining the colour of the universe, which does not shirk from asking, well, why bother? (yahoo news, via fmh)
new picture of the Eagle Nebula
Panoramic View of ‘Pillars of Creation’ Unveiled this new picture of the Eagle Nebula is literally awesome. I am put in mind of certain painted baroque ceilings, but this outdoes them all. (Yahoo news – high res images here)