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Dear Theta:
You are but a capital, cursive O. Theta, you are but a zero with a curvy line. An egg with a skull cap. You are but a simply decorated easter egg. How simple you are–yet, so useful. You, you, simple symbol, simple ambassador of mathematics, physics, meteorology…. Just […]
I was reading about Birr Castle in Ireland, the site at which the Lord Rosse telescope (biggest telescope of the 19th century) was built, and thought it interesting that they made an arboreal replica of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) with lime trees in the gardens there.
What a strange and so very novel idea this was. […]
“The Starry Night” oil painting by Van Gogh:
The Lord Rosse sketch of the Whirlpool Galaxy:
When I attended David Levy’s talk about astronomy subjects in art and classic literature, he noted that many experts point out that Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” painting bears some resemblance to the Whirlpool Galaxy sketches of Lord Rosse. […]
The Russian astronomer Wilhelm Struve, full name: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, (1793-1864) completed 272 astronomical works and fathered a grand total of 18 children.
That’s a lot of baby von Struves! Some of his most recognized observations were of double stars. He carried on the work begun by William Herschel, who discovered that […]
Apparently there was a research lab at the University of Hertfordhire that was appropriately named the “LaughLab”. Yes, LaughLab. Sounds like a lab run by clowns….which happens more commonly in science labs than one would come to expect, but I digress…
LaughLab’s research interest had to do with what made a joke funny […]
I was just reading more about Flammarion (1842-1945), the French astronomer wood-cut picture guy. He wrote lots of books and was a Spiritualist (meaning he believed in other worlds of spirits and ghosts). He lived during the peak popularity of the Spiritualist movement.
I’m not going to name any names but some astronomers are […]
This is a colored version of the famous woodcut.
I am frequently asked about the image at the beginning of my Hubble Deep Field video.
It a fascinating picture that expresses and symbolizes the wonderment, passion and curiosity of new scientific discovery into space (which is precisely why I chose this picture to be the first image […]
If I didn’t know better, I’d say daylight savings time is a result of some vast solar-astronomy conspiracy. Thankfully, I’ve worked in solar physics and can attest to the fact that they had nothing to do with it.
The Sun is still up the same number of hours as the day before as the day […]
I think I am going to go to this event called “Shakespeare as a Skywatcher: Joining Astronomy and English Literature” at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois on Mar. 25th. If you are in the area, I highly suggest that you should go too.
I love how they describe what the lecture is […]
For the past two days, I’ve been up at Fermilab (and no, the weather was nowhere NEAR as nice as in this photo) for an NSF review of our project, the Dark Energy Survey.
This review was a little strange for me in the sense that this is the first time I’ve seen how the ‘dark’ […]
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