by Pamela | May 20, 2007 | Meetups
Just a heads up: I will be attending the American Astronomical Societies Summer meeting in Honolulu next week. Expect lots of news and interviews. Anyone wanting to meeting up can find me at 6:20pm on Monday (after the Cannon lecture) outside of registration....
by Pamela | May 19, 2007 | Observing
Tonight, all across the world, guerilla astronomy will be waged on the public as amateur and professional astronomers inflict their hobby on individuals in random locations. Today is the 1st Annual International Sidewalk Astronomy Night. There is a nice article...
by Pamela | May 19, 2007 | Books
It’s summer, and that means I get to read fiction. The time I spend preparing for class during the semesters prevents me from often getting to enjoy the simple luxury of a book that I’m not either teaching from or reviewing. With my grades turned in, it...
by Pamela | May 17, 2007 | Space Carnival
Instead of writing a long post today, I’d like to encourage everyone to click over to my Astronomy Cast cohost Fraser Cain’s Universe Today and check out the list of posts he has pulled together for this week’s Carnival of Space. I’m hoping to...
by Pamela | May 17, 2007 | Space Craft
We seem to be entering a renaissance age of planetary science. Using the great observatories of the Earth (on and off the surface), scientists are discovering new worlds of every imaginable shape and size. More locally, we are building space craft to explore our solar...
