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Later this month, three planets will gather very close in the twilight sky -- make sure you don't miss this stunning conjunction!
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Well, for some unknown reason, WordPress decided to mess up my great blog post on sand. Litterally, nothing is left. No words, no pictures, no pithy remarks. Nada. I am in meetings all day today, so I will try and fix it and post it again. Sorry for the messup. Damn you WordPress blog eating … Continue reading »
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So, Star Trek Into Darkness. The new Trek movie. Big summer blockbuster. Lots of box office, lots of buzz.
Yeah, that. I didn’t like it.
Now, I didn’t hate it. It was fun, and entirely watchable. But, well, I just didn’t actively like it. It was OK for a fast-paced action movie where you can just watch and go along for the ride, but as a Trek movie it fell short. I think this reboot series still has a lot of promise, but this movie, for me, was just marking time.
Here’s why. Obviously,
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A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.
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A look at an older paper describing Galileo's possible sighting of individual ring particles orbiting Jupiter as companions to its inner moon Amalthea.
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Lynn Recker commented on the post, Friday fold: Rorschach blot, on the site Mountain Beltway Two bison butting heads.
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BEER is not the solution to life’s problems, but it might help astronomers characterize new exoplanets. As you probably surmised, BEER isn’t the beverage: it’s an observational technique standing for BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection/emission modulation. (That wins the award for the most awkward acronym I’ve seen in some time. As Mary Roach would say, it’s […]
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NASA’s operating plan for fiscal year 2013 will reportedly reverse the increases awarded to the agency’s planetary science program by Congress, according to a report. The Planetary Exploration Newsletter (PEN) reported Wednesday that the operating plan, which details any tweaks NASA plans to make to the final FY13 appropriations passed in March, will return planetary [...]
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A new study has just come out that looked at nearly 12,000 professional scientific journal papers about global warming, and found that—of the papers expressing a stance on global warming—97 percent endorse both the reality of global warming and the fact that humans are causing it.
Ninety-seven percent. That’s what we call a “consensus”, folks.
The study was clever. They found the papers by searching on the terms “global warming” and “global climate change”. Once they compiled
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Podcaster: Fraser Cain, Nicole Gugliucci, David Dickinson, Nancy Atkinson, Pamela Gay Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Space Highlight May 10th, 2013 Link : http://cosmoquest.org Here are this week’s stories: Emergency spacewalk for coolant leak: http://www.universetoday.com/102072/emergency-spacewalk-likely-for-serious-iss-coolant-leak/ Annular Solar Eclipse photo gallery: http://www.universetoday.com/102049/an-awesome-annular-eclipse-images-and-videos-from-earth-and-space/ Planet polluted […]
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Thanks to Sam Rametse for forwarding this press release:The first scientific paper based on observations performed with South Africa's new KAT-7 radio telescope, has been accepted for publication by the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society. "This is a significant milestone for South Africa's SKA project, proving that our engineers are able to deliver a cutting-edge scientific instrument, and that our scientists are able to use it for frontier science," says Derek
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If you've never looked through a telescope, if you've always wanted to see the rings of Saturn or the craters of the Moon with your own eyes, then get down to Brightwater Commons in Randburg tonight. The Johannesburg centre of the Astronomical Society of South Africa are trying out a bit of Sidewalk Astronomy on the lawn facing the skateboard ramps, meaning that they're bringing their telescopes and making them available for casual passer's by to have a quick look and see what it is they do.
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Outside the window, the neighborhood kids are running again. They’re about 12 years old, a boy and a girl and the girl’s little sister, about 8, and they’re racing around the court, up the street, along the alley, through a yard, and back onto the court, altogether maybe a full block, around and around. They’re [...]
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John Freeland wrote a new post, Deja Vu: Remembering the 1947 Texas City (Fertilizer) Explosion, on the site terra central
The 1947 Texas City Disaster is known as the worst U.S. industrial accident and the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The disaster, like the recent West, Texas disaster (video), was preceded by a fire. […]
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After nine years of hard Mars roving, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has broken a 40-year-old extraterrestrial distance record. Continue reading →
