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Astronomers
Bad Astronomy:
When Galileo first turned his telescope to the sky, almost exactly 400 years ago, he could not possibly have known what he was starting. Today, four centuries later, we’ve come a long, long way. To celebrate the anniversary o (Read More)
Submitted by coreburn
from Google Reader:
I favorited a YouTube video: An animation put together using data collected by astronomers all over the world to examine the surroundings of the Black Hole suspected to be present at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. (Read More)
StarDate:
In the November/December issue of StarDate, learn about space-based astronomy after Hubble Space Telescope. We'll also bring you a details on how astronomers are searching for supermassive black holes kicked out of galaxies a (Read More)
News Network:
Planetary Science
Topic:
Galaxies
Smashing Magazine:
In the first part of a series on the UX = Brand, the adventure of a web designer starts in a McDonald’s, where he discoveres that there is a worm hole between the world of Branding and User Experience Design (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
from Google Reader:
I’ll be posting my long-delayed appraisal of the movie Surrogates, shortly. But meanwhile, here’s a raft of links and other cool items that remind us that -- despite efforts to turn civilization toward know-nothing foolishne (Read More)
Submitted by eemorningwood
from Google Reader:
In tonight’s episode Raj works alongside Sheldon on “The Dark Matter Problem”. In my opinion this is the biggest problem in physics today that we have a hope of solving.Vera Rubin discovers galactic dark matter. Physicist (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the some of the best ground-based telescopes in southern Arizona plan to observe two lunar impacts at 4:30 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Arizona time Friday. (Read More)
News Networks:
Science,
Planetary Science
Wired Science:
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics went, in part, to the inventors of the charge-coupled device George Smith and Willard Boyle this week. Their innovation, sketched out in 1969, is now the imager in millions of digital cameras (Read More)
Universe Today:
"Now the circle is complete. When I left you, I was but the learner, and now…" Oh, sorry, different triology. The third image of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online, completing this eye-opening dive (Read More)
Submitted by coreburn
from Google Reader:
The Galactic Center of the Milky Way, located about 25,000 +/- 1,000 light years from Earth, lies in the direction of the constellations Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, and Scorpio. There is very good empirical evidence that a super (Read More)
Submitted by loup_dargent
from blog:
Astronomers have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as it was 12.8 billion years ago, is as large as the Milky Way galaxy and harb (Read More)
News Networks:
Unusual & Interesting.,
Planetary Science
Topics:
Black Hole,
Found
Submitted by coreburn
from Google Reader:
Every year, in mid-August, the Earth passes near the orbit of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The comet, itself, is seldom seen. It was last easily viewed by amateur astronomers in 1992 and 1993. With an orbital period of about (Read More)
Planetary Radio - The Planetary Society:
Jupiter got another black eye on July 19. Heidi Hammel returns to tell how astronomers around the world jumped into action, even turning the newly-refurbished Hubble Space Telescope toward the big planet. Bill Nye likes the (Read More)
News Networks:
Planetary Science,
The Cosmos
NASA Breaking News:
With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. (Read More)
Topic:
Space
Submitted by bwana
from Google Reader:
AFP - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies. (Read More)
News Network:
Planetary Science
Topics:
Galaxies,
Black Hole
Bad Astronomy:
On July 20, just weeks from now, it will be the 40th anniversary of the moment a human stepped foot on another world. You’ve seen the footage: Neil Armstrong in his bulky suit, stepping off the lunar module’s footpad. Ironica (Read More)
Discover | General News:
You’d think the return of blemishes on your face would be an unwelcome thing.But if the face is that of the Sun, and the blemish is actually a planet-sized knot of tangled magnetic fields, then it’s actually most welcome inde (Read More)
Submitted by eemorningwood
from Google Reader:
SPACE.com - PASADENA, CALIF. — The most massive black hole yet weighed lurks at the heart of the relatively nearby giant galaxy M87. (Read More)
Bad Astronomy:
For the first time ever, an extrasolar planet has been detected due to its physically slinging around its parent star. Artiost’s impression of the planet orbiting VB10. Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechImagine two children, one (Read More)
Universe Today:
Previous Hubble servicing mission. Credit: NASAThe crew of the upcoming Hubble servicing mission have not only been busy training for all contingencies of spaceflight on the shuttle and telescope repair (have you been followi (Read More)
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