1 month ago
nelson : Eclipse HDR - Nice use of very wide exposure range to show an eclipse in a new way
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4 month ago
nelson : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Follow the lander
Simon Willison : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Twitter / MarsPhoenix. NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”.
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gleuschk : NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse: February 20, 2008 - marked on my calendar
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11 month ago
nelson : Lunar mapping - Marius Watz discovers some amazing map visualizations
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Weird story from Wired News: Astronomers have found a huge area of the Universe completely devoid of, well, anything... - My mind leaps to terms like Necrid Expanse from Star Trek. This is because I am a dweeb.
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : A study of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle - A study of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle. More than twenty years later, the science of the Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life mostly still holds.
adamrg : A study of the "Galaxy Song" by Eric Idle
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13 month ago
gleuschk : KOKOGIAK - All Solar System Bodies Larger than 200 Miles: The Poster - holy cow. WANT
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13 month ago
jonhicks : Renfrewshire Community Website - Coats Observatory viewing nights
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14 month ago
deusx : Lick Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory, owned and operated by the University of California. It is situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, USA."
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18 month ago
nelson : Einstein Cross - A specific gravitational lens. Beautiful example.
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21 month ago
philgyford : vi-R-us » Blog Archive » Planets - Total Perspective Vortext / Powers of Ten style images to make you feel very, very tiny.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC reports on attempts to reconstruct an ancient device thought to measure the movements of the stars - I don't know to what extent the reconstructions referred to in the article are trusted by Classicists or Archaeologists. I should really explore this more. It's sort of fascinating...
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The Hubble Deep Field - A rather grandiose narrative and some Pink Floyd and pan pipes can't quite obfuscate the idea that in the tiniest patch of our darkest night sky lurk tens of thousands of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars...
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC report on the spotting of the Mars rover from space - I'll resist the temptation to mock and say that we sort of already knew that was there, and instead ask why on earth the BBC or NASA would say that there's a picture of the mars rover that's visible from space and then show a picture in which it clearly i
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24 month ago
plasticbag : A huge fluffy planet in another star system appears to be confusing astronomers - It's apparently larger than Jupiter but half the mass. No current theories of planet formation seem to be able to explain it. Super awesome. Other planets. Woof.
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25 month ago
gleuschk : Kansas City Star | 08/13/2006 | Kansan’s find faces celestial status loss - the poll at the end is, um, let's say potentially not completely impartial
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25 month ago
jimray : Damn Interesting » Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford - In the late 50's, the US tried to blanket the earth atmosphere with tiny copper needles to create a redundant ionosphere for shortwave radio communications, in case the Russians cut our terrestrial cables. Crazy.
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Desktop Earth 2.0 - Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment
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31 month ago
jimray : Outrage at attacks on NASA science - It seems that some punkass 24 year old kid from Texas A&M is now dictating NASA's science policy. This is sheer lunacy.
deusx : Bad Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Outrage at attacks on NASA science - "NASA is not in the business of teaching religion. They should be teaching science, and the Big Bang is definitely science."
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32 month ago
plasticbag : SkyScout - awesome device that identifies celestial objects that you use like a telescope - I so want to get one of these, but it's kind of pointless given that I live in London and can't even see any stars most of the time. The sky is a perpetual red horror of light polution. I miss the countryside...
deusx : SkyScout - "The SkyScout is a revolutionary, one of a kind, patented handheld device that instantly identifies and/or locates any celestial object visible to the naked eye, providing educational and entertaining information, both in text and audio."
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37 month ago
jimray : Stellarium Astronomy Software - Really impressive looking open source planetarium software
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37 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : American Astronomical Society writes open letter to Bush about "intelligent design" - Awesome.
deusx : And Now A Word From the Astronomers...: Corante > The Loom > - "It would be a lot more helpful if you would advocate good science teaching and the importance of scientific understanding for a strong and thriving America."
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38 month ago
kayodeok : New Scientist Breaking News - Tenth planet discovered in outer solar system - Astronomers have found a tenth planet, larger than Pluto and nearly three times farther from the sun as Pluto is today
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Astronomers detect '10th planet' - Astronomers in the United States have announced the discovery of the 10th planet to orbit our Sun
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