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...
by Pamela | Jan 31, 2008 | Personal
Yes, that was a lame title. The carnival on the other hand, is very much not lame, so go check it out on Visual Astronomy. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this many people participate. Go mingle with the astronomy crowd at the Carnival.
by Pamela | Jan 30, 2008 | Astronomy, Cosmology
This is apparently the post I wasn’t supposed to publish. I wrote it yesterday, and had it somehow utterly disappear from my HD after a crash. I then was writing it in wordpress and had Firefox crash on it before the first auto save… In a really cool press...
