by Pamela | May 24, 2007 | Space Carnival
It’s that time of week again: There is a Space Carnival in progress over at Universe Today. Make sure you get there while the news is fresh and check out all the free links – Some of them just might take you out of the universe. I’ll be hosting one...
by Pamela | May 23, 2007 | Astrophysics, Stars
Opening my press release email folder this morning, I found what could have been the beginning of a good joke if I were actually a skilled humorist. So a black hole and a brown dwarf both start to form. As the black hole consumes his parent star, he shots powerful...
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 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...
by Pamela | May 14, 2007 | Galaxies
Throughout math and physics certain trends occur over and over. The unique numbers of pi and phi (the golden ratio) respectively define circles and spirals. The mathematical forms of the equations for gravitational force and electric force are the same, and the...
