by Pamela | May 29, 2007 | Astrophysics
There are two basic characteristics that describe black holes: Mass and Spin. Mass determines the size of the event horizon, the gravitational mass, and many of the ways the black hole can gravitationally shred people, planets and just about anything else. Spin is...
by Pamela | May 29, 2007 | Exo Solar Systems
Yesterday’s big afternoon press conference was all about exoplanets. The scientists took us on a tour de force of planet related press releases that went from little M stars and their tiny habitable zone, to a new press release on 28 planets, to planets found...
by Pamela | May 28, 2007 | Galaxies
This mornings first press conference spanned the scales of the Universe. From a high speed dwarf galaxy only 1/20,000 times the size of our galaxy, to a new picture of M81 (a nearby spiral galaxy – image shown), to information on how a lack of gravitational pull...
by Pamela | May 28, 2007 | Personal, Technology
Short message while I write longer content on this mornings first, galaxy rich, press conference. This I walked into the press conference room and their was a giant, fresh from the press, printed Hubble Heritage image off to the side. Okay that’s cool. What...
by Pamela | May 27, 2007 | Personal
One of the odd side activities at AAS meetings is the search for neat give aways from the different space missions, companies, and publishers. These items generally take the form of lanyards, pens, and posters. I picked up something kind of new and neat and just in...
