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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 2007-10-20: Martian landscape photography
HiRISE | MSL Color Releases Lots and lots of high resolution images of the Martian surface, showing candidate sites for the proposed Mars Science Laboratory. (via Pruned) (tags: NASA photography Mars images landscape)
Gregory Colbert: ashes and snow
from Ashes and Snow, Gregory Colbert, 2007 (via riotclitshave, via Warren Ellis)
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…
Sagan’s animated evolutionary line
The classic diagram of evolution from the Cosmos TV series, first broadcast 1980. UPDATE: Another clip from Cosmos, A Thousand Years of Darkness is also strongly recommended. If Carl Sagan was alive today, they’d have him on a no-fly list. … 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…
Another Egyptian tomb discovery, could be Nefertiti, or not
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP), led by Nicholas Reeves, announced at the end of last month that, only months after the discovery of the first new tomb (KV63) since Howard Carter’s finding the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amun (KV62) in 1922, … 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.)