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You’ve just spent two hours on a choked highway trying to get home. You’ve been sitting in your car so long that the local National Public Radio (NPR) station has looped the two hour show and you’re listening to the same stories a second time. You’ve used up a quarter tank of gas, […]
Comet McNaught is a very bright comet, the brightest seen in 40 years. It also holds the distinction of being the brightest comet the SOHO spacecraft has ever seen. Launched in 1995, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been providing unprecedented images of the solar disk in soft x-rays and ultra-violet […]
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the President of the United States can’t pronounce the word nuclear? I’ve been told that’s he’s not the first:
Bush isn’t the only American president to lose the “nucular” war. In his “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine in May 2001, William […]
Astroprof has just started another semester:
But, this might be an interesting semester. I had my first lecture tonight. However, before I had even given my first lecture, I had two students asking questions about the homework problems! That’s right! They downloaded the syllabus and the homework assignments from my faculty web […]
It is extremely easy to earn some extra money using what you know about the night sky. Many amateur and professional astronomers go to schools with their telescopes for free to talk about the stars or what’s up in the sky, I’ve done this countless times myself. There is nothing wrong, however, with […]
If you have a chance, you need to get out in the late afternoon and check out comet McNaught. It has surprised many of us with how bright it has become. Here’s a YouTube video, made by truemartian, on a Sony Hi8 camera that captures what you can see brilliantly. It has […]
Today’s Astronomy Porn comes from Brian Jolley, who captured this beautiful image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, our sister galaxy.
The dust lanes are clearly visible and the stars are all nice pinpoints. Excellent focusing. The details of how the image was taken were not published on his Flickr album, so I can’t give […]
Did you know that you can experience events in a different order than someone else, just by virtue of where you are compared to that person? If you are far enough away, you can experience the SAME sequence of events, but in a different order than a friend, say, on the Moon.
This is a […]
Some amazing news is pouring out of the 206th meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week. I’ve been following the talks and presentations very closely.
In one of the most exciting results produced since the Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field, collaborating astronomers from around the world produced a three dimensional map of dark matter contained […]
Astronomy education in this country: OMG.
I used to go out to public schools and do science demonstrations. One day, I was in a fifth grade class talking about space travel, and I asked the class:
“How many times have we gone to the moon?”
Nothing.
“When did we go to the moon?”
Crickets.
“Why did we go to […]
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