by Pamela | Jul 15, 2007 | Personal
Fraser and I got a great letter from someone who listens to Astronomy Cast. This person noted quite correctly that Carl Sagan was strongly criticized for spending so much time popularizing astronomy. This person asked if things have changed significantly for us today....
by Pamela | Jul 13, 2007 | Personal
In the past decade, a few things “real” scientists once poo poo’d as science fiction have been found happily taking place in our universe. For instance, just the other day I heard a colleague discussing how planets aren’t found in binary...
by Pamela | Jul 12, 2007 | Entertainment, Environment, Personal
Tonight I watched the latest installment of The History Channel’s “The Universe.” The week’s episode focused on Spaceship Earth (which re airs Sunday night). This episode addressed many different aspects of the Earth’s formation, how it...
by Pamela | Jul 11, 2007 | Personal
Fraser and I were interviewed about the search for alien life by Skepticality. The interview is in the second half of this weeks episode. (The first half is all about the iPhone (Mmmmm, iPhones…).) If you’re looking for something new to listen to and...
by Pamela | Jul 10, 2007 | Personal
In what is to me the most scientifically important paper of the year, astronomers today announced the discovery of 2 galaxies at redshifts > 10 and 4 galaxies with redshifts >7.7. The most distant of these galaxies was forming stars just 500,000,000 years after...
by Pamela | Jul 10, 2007 | Personal
As we continue to find extra solar planets around increasing numbers of stars and continue to find liquids (water, ammonia, methane…) in increasing places in our own solar system, one has to wonder when will we find life. Answering this question is a complex...
