by Pamela | Feb 6, 2008 | Personal
Astronomy content will follow (after I finish email and grading). Never in my adult life have I known of a politician who inspired people to hope, to believe in themselves, and to step beyond the land of what is expected into the world of what is dreamed. It seems,...
by Pamela | Feb 5, 2008 | Personal
Don’t know who to vote for? Haven’t followed the politics? Use this blind “taste test” to figure out who matches your political opinions. Your Web browser software doesn’t support frames, but you can visit Select A Candidate‚Ñ¢ at...
by Pamela | Feb 4, 2008 | Astronomy, Astrophysics
When we look up with gamma-ray eyes (or use satellite’s like Swift above the atmosphere to watch the sky with gamma-ray sensitive detectors), many different things draw our attention. There is gamma-ray emission from pulsars, from quasars, from accretion disks...
by Pamela | Feb 2, 2008 | Astronomy, Observing
Image is link from Dr. Richard Steinberg’s website at Drexel University. It is the combination of (I think) 52 two-second exposure images of asteroid 2007 TU24. Serendipitously caught in the image are NGC 634 and its most recent supernova, SN2008A. (The cross...
by Pamela | Feb 2, 2008 | Personal
There is something magical about snow days that never goes away. Thursday afternoon, as the flakes fell the faculty gathered in giddy anticipation of a possible day of freedom. Everyone prognosticated on the possible time the call would come. Would evening classes be...
