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Astronomy Buff

Archive for February 2008

February 8th, 2008

“New Light on Dark Energy” is Dim

Photo Credit:  chipdatajeffb
Changing careers to work with people who are studying the nature of dark energy has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.  I have never been happier professionally, and I admit there is much I have to learn about exactly how we are characterizing the nature of dark energy.
The discovery that […]

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February 7th, 2008

An Actual, Bona Fide Test for String Theory?

Long time readers know that I find string theory irritating. Very smart people have been studying this idea for decades and have yet to say something about it that I can understand. Of course I leave open the possibility that I’m an idiot, but I know I’m not the only one scrunching up […]

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February 7th, 2008

JDEM Dark Energy Mission is a Go

[Quick note: It looks like the tech guys at b5Media have been having server issues for the past couple of days. My apologies if you couldn’t get to the blog. I’ve gotten a couple of posts written that I’ll post over the course of the day to kind of catch up. Anyhoo, […]

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February 5th, 2008

Mercury MESSENGER Website is Really Cool

I missed the Flyby of the MESSENGER spacecraft as it flew by Mercury last month. I looked at the pictures and read a few news releases after the fact, but I missed all the real-time updates that were coming out of NASA/JPL.
It turns out that I needn’t have worried. I just went through […]

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February 1st, 2008

And the winner is…

… Johanna Valdueza and her entry, ‘Out of Nowhere’.
Congratulations Johnanna! I’ll be emailing you after I get this post up to get your shipping information so I can get your new mount to you. I’m sure you’re going to like this mount.
Here are the final numbers:
Johanna: 158
Jim: 155
Diann: 62
Julie: 11
Andrew: […]

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