by Pamela | Feb 15, 2008 | Astronomy, Space Carnival
It’s that time again. A GIANT carnival awaits you over on New Frontiers Blog. It may require more than one circuit to take it all in 🙂
by Pamela | Feb 14, 2008 | Astronomy, Cosmology
I’m still here, but it’s an exam week, so I bring you another guest blogger, Ethan Siegel, who knows way more about dark matter than I probably ever will (a theorist even!). Enjoy his guest post! This is Ethan from Starts With A Bang! over here at...
by Pamela | Feb 13, 2008 | Teaching, Technology
The following is a guest blog post written by Dr. Lenore Horner of SIUE (a physics professor who works down the hall from me and who has the best toys in the department.) In late October or early November of last year, eons in academic life, one of our graduate...
by Pamela | Feb 13, 2008 | Astronomy, Planets, Stars
As some of you may know, my favorite favorite star to bring up when discussing binaries is Tau Boo B (Go ahead, say it out loud. Giggle. Join me in the giggling. Wasn’t that fun?). This little red dwarf star is the companion star to the much more famous, but no...
by Pamela | Feb 11, 2008 | Astronomy, Nebulae, Stars
I am so so frustrated that I can’t get the full journal article associated with this press release. I’m going to have to do some emailing tomorrow to see if someone can get it to me. Here is what has me excited. In a new paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics...