• Eye-catching: Earth As Art!

    Updated: 2012-11-30 16:52:09
    A new NASA app features time-lapse satellite images of locations on Earth undergoing significant change over decades. This app celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere. The app has a thumbnail gallery of the images as well as an interactive directory with images organized [...]

  • Gigantic Plasma Jets Pour From the Heart of Hercules A

    Updated: 2012-11-30 16:48:08
    Talk about pouring your heart out! Astronomers using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the recently-upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico have identified gigantic jets of plasma, subatomic particles and magnetic fields blasting out of the center of Hercules A, a massive galaxy 2 billion light-years away. The image [...]

  • CSExtra – Friday, November 30, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-30 13:24:25
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA’s Messenger mission finds ice, lots of it, at the [...]

  • In the Shadow of the Moon: Experience a Solar Eclipse From 37 Kilometers Up

    Updated: 2012-11-30 06:36:34
    The Moon’s shadow stretches over the Earth in this balloon-mounted camera view of the November 14 solar eclipse (Catalin Beldea, Marc Ulieriu, Daniel Toma et. al/Stiinta&Tehnica) On November 14, 2012, tens of thousands of viewers across northeastern Australia got a great view of one of the most awe-inspiring sights in astronomy — a total solar [...]

  • Space Station Will Turn to Face the Sun

    Updated: 2012-11-30 05:03:09
    This is the first time the station's attitude has been changed to allow a scientific instrument uninterrupted observations of the sun.

  • U.S., European Scientists Lend New Accuracy to Greenland, Antarctic Ice Losses

    Updated: 2012-11-30 03:30:39
    An international alliance of scientists, using a wide array of data gathered by satellites as well as airborne sensors, confirms a 20 year record of ice melt from Antarctica as well as Greenland, findings that suggest significant losses related to global warming that  will be passed to the United Nations in its campaign to address [...]

  • Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing

    Updated: 2012-11-30 02:37:34
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing By Keith Cowing Posted November 29, 2012 9:37 PM View Comments NASA Antarctica An international team of experts supported by NASA and the European Space Agency ESA has combined data from multiple satellites and aircraft to produce the most comprehensive and accurate assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica and their contributions to sea level . rise In a landmark study published Thursday in the journal Science , 47 researchers from 26 laboratories

  • A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

    Updated: 2012-11-30 02:26:32
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A By Keith Cowing Posted November 29, 2012 9:26 PM View Comments NASA et al Hercules A Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imaging power of two of astronomy's cutting-edge tools , the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, and the recently upgraded Karl G . Jansky Very Large Array VLA radio telescope in New . Mexico Spectacular jets powered

  • First-ever Hyperspectral Images of Earth's Auroras

    Updated: 2012-11-30 02:24:22
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets First-ever Hyperspectral Images of Earth's Auroras By Keith Cowing Posted November 29, 2012 9:24 PM View Comments OSA Hyperspectral Image Hoping to expand our understanding of auroras and other fleeting atmospheric events , a team of space-weather researchers designed and built NORUSCA II , a new camera with unprecedented capabilities that can simultaneously image multiple spectral bands , in essence different wavelengths or colors , of light . The aurora as seen as a color composite image from the NORUSCA II

  • A Colorful and Unexpected Reversal at Titan

    Updated: 2012-11-29 22:02:39
    This artist’s impression of Saturn’s moon Titan shows the change in observed atmospheric effects before, during and after equinox in 2009. The Titan globes also provide an impression of the detached haze layer that extends all around the moon (blue). This image was inspired by data from NASA’s Cassini mission. Image Credit: ESA A certain [...]

  • NASA Fends Off Mars Organics Rumors

    Updated: 2012-11-29 22:01:29
    NASA has said there will be no "historic" announcement about organics on Mars on Monday. Bummer.

  • Coated Sapphire Is Invisible to Infrared Cameras

    Updated: 2012-11-29 20:32:19
    A layered material causes infrared light waves to cancel each other out.

  • New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury's North Pole

    Updated: 2012-11-29 19:14:46
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury's North Pole By Keith Cowing Posted November 29, 2012 2:14 PM View Comments NASA JHUAPL North Pole of Mercury NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has identified large concentrations of hydrogen at Mercury's north pole , thought to be in the form of water ice , researchers announced . today The hydrogen-rich layer , more than tens of centimeters thick and found in cold , permanently shadowed regions on Mercury , was identified using measurements from MESSENGER's Neutron Spectrometer NS

  • Opportunity Mars Rover: Studying “High-Value” Surface Targets

    Updated: 2012-11-29 18:30:55
    While the world anxiously awaits next week’s news from the NASA Curiosity rover, the elder rover on Mars – Opportunity – continues to grind away at Red Planet science. Opportunity has begun a science campaign on some high-value surface targets. The robot’s set of arm-mounted science instruments is in full swing; “Sandcherry” is the target [...]

  • Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8

    Updated: 2012-11-29 16:49:45
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8 By Keith Cowing Posted November 29, 2012 11:49 AM View Comments NASA Asteroid 2007 PA8 A collage shows nine radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 that were obtained between Oct . 31 and Nov . 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA's 230-foot-wide 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone , . Calif On Nov . 5 at 8:42 a.m . PST 11:42 a.m . EST 16:42 UTC the object came about 4 million miles 6.5 million kilometers from Earth , or 17 times the distance between Earth and

  • CSExtra – Thursday, November 29, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-29 15:48:12
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  • Rapid Change in Seasons Seen on Saturn’s Moon Titan

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:41:29
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  • International Space Station Turns SOLAR to Face the Sun

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:28:39
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  • Apocalypse Rumors Have Dark Side, NASA Warns

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:15:00
    Children and impressionable youth may suffer anxiety amid Mayan doomsday rumors, NASA scientists say.

  • Full Moon and Friends, November 28, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-29 00:33:33
    The full Moon rising with Jupiter and Aldebaran on November 28, 2012 in North Carolina, USA. Credit: Tavi Greiner. The full Moon is a-rising tonight, and it is not alone. There are lots of other bright and beautiful stars and planets out there — some snuggling right up together — and already we’ve got astrophotographers [...]

  • 3-D Printer Makes Parts From Lunar Simulant

    Updated: 2012-11-28 22:33:17
    Turns out that you can leave home Earth without it! If you’re on the moon and in need of that needed wrench or replacement part, why not just 3-D print the item? Amit Bandyopadhyay, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University and his colleagues are demonstrating how to print [...]

  • “Oddball” Galaxy Contains the Biggest Black Hole Yet

    Updated: 2012-11-28 19:24:58
    Image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 taken with Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA/ESA/Andrew C. Fabian) It’s thought that at the heart of most if not every spiral galaxy (as well as some dwarf galaxies) there’s a supermassive black hole, by definition containing enormous amounts of mass — hundreds of millions, even billions of times the mass [...]

  • NASA Study Could Improve Hurricane Strength Forecasts

    Updated: 2012-11-28 18:10:49
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets NASA Study Could Improve Hurricane Strength Forecasts By Keith Cowing Posted November 28, 2012 1:10 PM View Comments Forecasters could soon be better able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments , finds a new NASA-led . study Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Pasadena , Calif . UCLA and the University of Hawaii at Manoa analyzed relative humidity data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder AIRS

  • Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered

    Updated: 2012-11-28 16:53:57
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered By Keith Cowing Posted November 28, 2012 11:53 AM View Comments ESO Quasar SDSS J1106+1939 Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope VLT have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen , at least five times more powerful than any that have been observed to . date Quasars are extremely bright galactic centres powered by supermassive black holes . Many blast huge amounts of material out into their host galaxies , and these outflows play a key role in the

  • A Tribute to the Efforts of Everyone Who Helped Make the Curiosity Mission a Success

    Updated: 2012-11-28 16:06:15
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  • Sci-Fi Icons Highlight How NASA Space Program Improved Our Lives

    Updated: 2012-11-28 15:52:26
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  • Rutgers Astronomer to Lead South African Astronomical Observatory

    Updated: 2012-11-28 14:59:35
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  • NASA Looking for Ideas for Innovative Uses of Large Space Telescopes

    Updated: 2012-11-28 14:40:16
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  • CSExtra – Wednesday, November 28, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-28 00:28:16
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Can NASA win new Congressional support for the agency’s commercial [...]

  • Give your family some space — outer space! — at Family Space Day this Saturday

    Updated: 2012-11-27 21:24:19
    You probably spent a lot of time with your family over the Thanksgiving holiday, and we know just what you need: SPACE! A couple hours (or days) to yourself aren’t gonna cut it. We’re thinking this year you need some … Continue reading →

  • Do Missing Jupiters Mean Massive Comet Belts?

    Updated: 2012-11-27 18:45:17
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Do Missing Jupiters Mean Massive Comet Belts By Keith Cowing Posted November 27, 2012 1:45 PM View Comments ESA Artist impression : debris disc and planets of Gliese 581 Using ESA's Herschel space observatory , astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds . The comet reservoirs could have delivered life-giving oceans to the innermost . planets Artist impression of the debris disc and planets around the star known as Gliese

  • Detailed Images of Rocknest3 Rocks Relayed From Mars

    Updated: 2012-11-27 14:39:24
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  • Scientists Spot a Second Pacman on Saturn Moon Tethys

    Updated: 2012-11-27 14:21:21
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  • Year-Long Space Station Mission Approved

    Updated: 2012-11-27 02:39:40
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Year-Long Space Station Mission Approved By Keith Cowing Posted November 26, 2012 9:39 PM View Comments NASA International Space Station NASA , the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and their international partners have selected two veteran spacefarers for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015. This mission will include collecting scientific data important to future human exploration of our solar system . NASA has selected Scott Kelly and Roscosmos has chosen Mikhail . Kornienko

  • DOE and NASA Demonstrate Fission Reactor Prototype

    Updated: 2012-11-27 02:30:53
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets DOE and NASA Demonstrate Fission Reactor Prototype By Keith Cowing Posted November 26, 2012 9:30 PM View Comments LANL Demonstration Using Flattop Fissions A team of researchers , including engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory , has demonstrated a new concept for a reliable nuclear reactor that could be used on space . flights The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine at the Nevada National Security Site's Device

  • U. S., Russian Astronauts Selected for 1-year Space Station Mission

    Updated: 2012-11-27 02:10:27
    NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will prepare for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, a move intended to help prepare human explorers for the physical and mental rigors of future deep space missions.   The launching of the Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the two men to the station is [...]

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, November 27, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-27 00:21:48
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos select an astronaut and a cosmonaut [...]

  • Astronomers Spot Candidate for Most Distant Known Galaxy

    Updated: 2012-11-26 21:29:10
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  • CSExtra – Monday, November 26, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-26 13:40:53
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world, including a summary from the weekend.  Europe reaches an agreement [...]

  • Looking Back on the Giotto Encounter With Comet Halley

    Updated: 2012-11-26 00:42:01
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  • Monitoring A Martian Dust Storm

    Updated: 2012-11-25 21:13:42
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Monitoring A Martian Dust Storm By Keith Cowing Posted November 25, 2012 4:13 PM View Comments NASA JPL MSSS Mars Weather Map A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on . Mars Using the orbiter's Mars Color Imager , Bruce Cantor of Malin Space Science Systems , San Diego , began observing the storm on Nov . 10, and subsequently reported it to the team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity

  • Dwarf Planet Makemake Lacks Atmosphere

    Updated: 2012-11-25 20:43:53
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Dwarf Planet Makemake Lacks Atmosphere By Keith Cowing Posted November 25, 2012 3:43 PM View Comments ESO Artist's Impression of Makemake Astronomers have used three telescopes at ESO's observatories in Chile to observe the dwarf planet Makemake as it drifted in front of a distant star and blocked its light . The new observations have allowed them to check for the first time whether Makemake is surrounded by an . atmosphere This chilly world has an orbit lying in the outer Solar System and was expected to have an

  • This Week at NASA Recap: ISS Science Research and More

    Updated: 2012-11-23 18:10:47
    Onboard the International Space Station NASA's Kevin Ford continues to settle into his role as Commander of the orbiting laboratory. Ford and Expedition 34 crewmates Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency are continuing work with the multitude of research being conducted on the station -- including investigations on human research, biological and physical sciences, technology development and Earth observation. Also, Joe Acaba visits Marshall's Payload Operations Center, Johnson Space Center's new Director, some milestones for the SLS program, an award for some NASA Technology and more!

  • Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status: Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica

    Updated: 2012-11-21 23:18:05
    : , Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status : Novolazarevskaya Station , Antarctica By Keith Cowing Posted November 21, 2012 6:18 PM View Comments Weather image today via . NOAA Its about 120 km over the glacial ice fields between Novo Station and the lake . Its a rough ride with variations in the amount of snow or blue ice that one encounters along the way but the route is relatively safe , avoiding most major crevasse . fields Weather image today via NOAA . Novolazarevskaya Station Novo is located on the coast in

  • Thanksgiving on the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-11-21 19:58:03
    Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA displayed some of the food he and his crewmates will enjoy on Thanksgiving Day on the orbital outpost and discussed the significance of flying in space over the holidays during a downlink message November 20. Ford and his Russian crewmates, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin are tending to station operations and research as a three-man crew until three additional crewmates arrive at the complex on December 21.

  • Fermi space telescope to get software fix for woefully stupid error 039 Knight Science Journalism Pr

    Updated: 2012-11-15 19:55:31
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  • Addiction by Design How Slot Machines Keep People Playing Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT

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  • Thank you

    Updated: 2012-11-12 17:16:04
    This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate magazine. It has been my pleasure and honor to be a Discover blogger for more than four years. Still, I remember my science teacher in [...]

  • Revealed: My tattoo

    Updated: 2012-11-12 13:00:09
    Folks, it’s time. And an appropriate time: for my penultimate post here at Discover Magazine, I’ve decided to show you my tattoo. I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but there were a lot of behind-the-scenes issues getting permissions I won’t bore you with. But by the time I was able to post [...]

  • Nerd deGrasse Tyson

    Updated: 2012-11-10 14:00:22
    Speaking of Neil Tyson, if you’re a fan of his you’ll be pleased to know that his show, Star Talk Radio, is now going to be part of the Nerdist Channel network! Thats actually a pretty big deal; Chris Hardwick has created this juggernaut of Nerdist and it reaches a lot of folks. The new [...]

  • Astronomy podcast for kids

    Updated: 2012-11-09 19:00:47
    I love it when kids get excited enough about science to go out and do something about it. That’s why I’m digging Jeffrey Tang – who’s 10 – because he created the Astronomy For Kids podcast, where he talks about different astronomical things. The first podcast went up in February 2012 ("The Solar System") and [...]

  • Repost: Carl Sagan Day

    Updated: 2012-11-09 16:30:07
    [Today is Carl Sagan's birthday, celebrated by lovers of science and rationality around the planet. I wrote the following post last year, but I think it's still appropriate (and I updated his age). Happy birthday, Carl. It's a darker cosmos without you, but we still walk with the candle you lit for us.] If Carl [...]

  • Moon bounce

    Updated: 2012-11-09 14:00:23
    Of all the amazing pictures returned from the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – and I may include the Apollo landing sites among them – I think my favorites are the ones showing boulders that rolled down slopes. Did I say rolled? I mean bounced! [Click to enselenate.] This shot from LRO shows the [...]

  • Uwingu wants you to submit names for their planetary baby book

    Updated: 2012-11-08 16:38:26
    Astronomers are discovering a lot of planets these days. The official count is 800+, with thousands of more candidates (unconfirmed but suspiciously planet-like). Right now we give them alphabet soup names. Alpha Centauri Bb. HR 8799b (through HR8799 e). And of course, everyone’s favorite, 2MASS J04414489+2301513b. These catalog names are useful, but less than public [...]

  • Back to work

    Updated: 2012-11-07 19:07:11
    A few people – including my pal Deric Hughes – put together this non-partisan and nicely done video in honor of democracy: If you like it, give it a thumbs-up on YouTube and Like it on FB. And they’re right. As I wrote last night, there is much work to be done. I don’t think [...]

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