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The Discovery Channel website has an article on a different idea for locating extrasolar planets that are more earth-like... water, atmosphere, maybe habitable. The idea is to take a look at earth the way we are trying to look at other planets - from a distance. Of course, we can't get as far away...
Some of the more curious flckr members contact me from time to time and ask if the names i give my portraits are real. Others i assume are perfectly intelligent enough to reailse that Phillip is not a natural Thai name and that I am in all likely hood making them up. In fact Somboon, Visuth,...
What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) 07.11.2008 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list July 11, 2008: Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally. So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting...
Deep Prose Software announced today the immediate availability of Uranus 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. With a vast database of over 100,000 stars, planets, galaxies and more plotted in real-time right on your portable device, it's a powerful tool for astronomers of all levels of ability. Version...
I ran across an article full of niftiness today while surfing at work. You know, instead of working... From Live Science and Space.com, apparently not only are people emitting waves of noise out into deep space that might some day attract the attention of some far-flung alien being, but the Earth...
BAM! BAM! BAM! AND BAM! Anyone else think this is awesome? One step closer to the diminishing of our egos. Like so many others, I've always known that the logical assumption about life on other planets is that there would have to be. Considering how big the universe is, it's improbable that we would...
Oh yes, a great science fiction plot object. My father's favorite story line. The "Time Travel" gimmick that entertains everyone from the Geek to the casual reader. I am a big viewer of the "Nerd Channels" on television. I like to watch the Science Channel and Discovery channel quite regularly. I've...
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I don't want to give the impression that UCF is a bad place to study Astronomy, by the way. They do not offer a major for it, only a minor, but by all indications the faculty is working hard to make a fine planetary astronomy program. The school does offer a Physics major, and those interested in...
I'm pretty close to being able to get into the Astronomy class that I want in the Fall semester - at a different college. Maybe I've mentioned before the oddity that UCF offers Intro to Astronomy (AST 2002, at least at UCF) but they don't offer the lab... ever... or at least not anytime in the past...
I spent Saturday night at the observatory first sweeping up --dead ants everywhere-- and then experimenting with the 9-inch telescope. Three local high school students saw that the front door was open and stopped by for a visit. I spoke with them a bit about the observatory and telescope, gave them...
Yeah! The much-anticipated release of the Firefox 3 browser is coming Tuesday, June 17. I'd tried an earlier --beta, I think-- release and it already was already looking very, very good! I haven't been running the pre-release versions since because I regularly bookmark items (actually, too...
Gad, what a hot day! We decided to take it a little easier than we might otherwise have on a sunny Sunday and went on another "photo safari." I thought we would wind up at Hinckley Lake --one of our favorite places-- but She Who Must be Obeyed had suffered several nasty bug bites last night at a...
I have just uploaded my science video on Mars presenting VRMars Astronomy Software. The video shows panoramas and images, including the "Whale" panorama and Martian sunset, taken by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit during the Mars Rover Mission. The video was created with the use of virtual reality science...
When Ken and I got home from the theater tonight I found this little treasure waiting for me at the front door. OK, it's not so little. It's a large format book and it's absolutely loaded with beautiful full page color photos and illustrations. Even if you aren't interested in the science it's a...
I'm looking around and hoping to be able to add a Mars Phoenix Mission weather graphic to my astronomy Web sites -- something that updates daily. So far, only a desktop widget for Windows Vista computers --not what I want-- is available. The Phoenix lander sits at what would be the Martian arctic...
Here's a short video clip from one of NASA's STEREO spacecraft, observing plasma swirl around above the sun. It's very similar to Wooly Willie (the toy where you give Willie different iron hair styles or a beard with a magnetic wand). It's not real time, but not sped up all that much. It's millions...
The Phoenix has landed! For live video coverage from NASA today, click here. For a trip down the rabbit hole, check out the latest at Etemenanki, Phoenix Impact Through the Looking Glass. If you enjoyed that rabbit hole, check out Thuther Thoughts’ latest: We’re in the Middle of WWIII = Wizard...
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