by Pamela | Jul 17, 2007 | Personal
It sometimes seems like the exoplanet folks put out a press release every time anything half way novel or solar system-like is found. What we don’t hear about are the boring discoveries that fill in the details. One recent paper seems to be flying under the...
by Pamela | Jul 15, 2007 | Events
I’ll be at AstroFest hanging out, meeting students, and giving a talk on standard star calibrations. If you’re an an SAO alum, consider coming 🙂 Here’s the info on the talk I’ll be giving: Standard Stars, Standard Colors, and the art of not...
by Pamela | Jul 15, 2007 | Personal
Fraser and I got a great letter from someone who listens to Astronomy Cast. This person noted quite correctly that Carl Sagan was strongly criticized for spending so much time popularizing astronomy. This person asked if things have changed significantly for us today....
by Pamela | Jul 14, 2007 | Teaching
Over on Stuart’s Astronomy Blog, he had a really neat post about an upcoming Harry Potter and Book 7 Star Party. This is a brilliant idea that I’m thinking of stealing (maybe some of you might also consider stealing his idea). All the book stores around...
by Pamela | Jul 13, 2007 | Personal
In the past decade, a few things “real” scientists once poo poo’d as science fiction have been found happily taking place in our universe. For instance, just the other day I heard a colleague discussing how planets aren’t found in binary...
