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We need to let go of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It’s dying, is past it’s prime and we may as well start preparing ourselves for it’s eventual death. The death of the HST is far from a bad thing though, we have much better things on the horizon, more exciting discoveries await!
But […]
As has been widely reported, the camera that took the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which in my opinion was the most important image ever taken by humanity, has finally died.
Now, while this is sad news, it’s important to keep in mind that the Hubble is not dead, there are still a great many instruments still […]
Remember that scene in Star Trek: Generations, where Malcolm McDowell’s character had access to this giant gun that would stop all fusion processes within a star, causing it to immediately go out? No? Well, umm, he did and uhhh (damn now I gotta explain the whole movie), so umm, let’s just say […]
Yikes. I used to weigh 220 pounds. I’m six feet tall, 44 years old and I don’t exercise much except to haul out my 75 pound telescopes several times a week, and I love to drink the occasional beer. Not the cheap-ass light beers, but the heavy-duty, space-time warping, heavier than […]
Emily from the Planetary Society Weblog has put together this amazing mosaic of Saturn as viewed from above. She’s taken images from the Cassini spacecraft and manually assembled them into this image:
Photo Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Emily Lakdawalla
Excellent work. This is a truly unique view of Saturn, it is […]
I’m giving you guys a chance to express yourself. There’s nothing sadder than a poll not voted in, it makes it look like no one’s reading my stuff. Even though that’s absolutely true, I expect all ten of you to get off your asses and vote. This is your chance to […]
I think thoughts, that’s what I do. Thinking thoughts thoughfully is hard work, but I am a professional thought thinker; I’ve been trained and I have many special suits to protect me. Scientists are professional thought thinkers.
So, I think many, many thoughts throughout the day, and many of them are strange. […]
So, what kind of space probes would need to be built to explore our galaxy for signs of life, particularly intelligent life? As already discussed, even the relatively simple problem of whipping by stars in our own galaxy and ever so briefly checking for a civilization is a tough one. The problem, as […]
Let’s see, since my birthday, June 5th 1962, here’s what’s happened in the universe (among many other things, to be sure - like, at least six):
SINCE YOU WERE BORN
you have orbited the Sun 44 times
the Earth has spun on itself 14580 times
308 new stars were born in the Milky Way galaxy
the Universe has expanded by […]
I don’t think people really appreciate just how big the universe is. If you consider almost any problem associated with studying the universe, one quickly becomes entangled in some pretty tricky issues of scale. Consider the search for other civilizations in just our small, humble Milky Way galaxy. In a recent paper […]
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