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Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal
Many science writers have covered astronomy at some stage in their careers. Now there is a journal all about the subject, communicating astronomy that is, not astronomy, which has more than its fair share of the scientific literature. ...
Did life here begin out there?
Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated in space and was seeded here by some event. This covers a lot of ground sky: comets, Mars, Venus, aliens, and so on. The idea isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. ...
Goodbye Ulysses
About a month ago, a bit longer, I was telling about the Ulysses spacecraft that is orbiting around the Sun and how the timing was great because of the new solar cycle going to be starting. The Ulysses has taught us much about the way ...
Aliens build a galaxy!
Back in 2004, European astronomers announced evidence of a tremendously distant galaxy, discovered only because its light was magnified and brightened by a gravitational lens. If this pans out (it appears that it’s still unconfirmed) it ...
Ulysses’s odyssey comes to an end
You may have already heard that scientists have decided that is it time for the solar satellite Ulysses to shed this mortal coil. Ulysses was launched from the Space Shuttle back in 1990, and was designed to operate for 5 years. ...
Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the Sky
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). Diamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them, say scientists at the NASA ...
A swiftly UV galaxy
NASA’s Swift observatory is designed to detect high-energy radiation coming from the most powerful explosions in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts. But it’s also equipped with a more normal telescope, one that has a 30 centimeter mirror ...
Light Pollution
http://www.globe.gov/globeatnight/ "Come join us for the 2008 GLOBE at Night Campaign from 25 February - 8 March. 2008 marks a monumental shift in human history when more than half the people on Earth are expected to be living in cities ...
Efrain Morales’ Saturn At Opposition
Very recently, he submitted the following images, which he captured with his DMK 21AF04 monochrome astronomy camera. Click for the original, annotated image:. Accompanying his e-mail, Efrain added:. Here is another photo of Saturn on ...
Tilting at windmills
I am a little green, I suppose. I turn off lights when I leave the room, try to think of ways of eating up less power, and so on. I like the idea of windmills, though only for small use; having a farm of them doesn’t make a lot of sense ...