24 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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26 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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27 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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35 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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44 month ago
plasticbag : Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are in a relationship, their publicists have confirmed - This breaks the half your age plus seven lower limit rule and as such is sick and wrong and must be stopped!
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