by Pamela | Jun 20, 2007 | Personal
One of the concepts that confuses people most about the Universe is the Earth’s location relative to the Big Bang. People constantly ask, “Where is the center of the Universe?” and “Where was the Big Bang relative to us today?” and...
by Pamela | Jun 19, 2007 | Personal
When I said we have moles on Saturday, I was not kidding. I walked across our front yard today to water some flowers that were threatening to die, and it felt like I was walking on a crunchy sponge. Our entire front yard is undermined. This creates a bit of a dilemma...
by Pamela | Jun 16, 2007 | Random
Do not try to navigate by the stars while walking some place that moles live. Locate the direction. Locate the mole hole. Only walk after doing both. We have moles. Lots of moles. And a bunch of trees blocking the southern horizon. Clearly a telescope pier on the roof...
by Pamela | Jun 13, 2007 | Personal
This week astronomer Mike Brown and graduate student Emily Schaller released new results showing the Kuiper Belt object Eris is 27% more massive then Pluto (which is a few more percentage points more massive than was previously known. Neither object is a planet....
by Pamela | Jun 12, 2007 | Personal
I have to admit that I’m a msnbc junky. It is a stupid guilty pleasure of a news source that let’s me know both what matters (War updates) and what doesn’t (Paris, anyone?). Just flicked over and there and found a “Breaking News” headline...
by Pamela | Jun 11, 2007 | Personal
NB: Space Carnival submissions due by Wednesday. Please submit! Last month, I took this blog daily and gave it the tag line “Blogging one sidereal day at a time.” Everyday, as I read and explore astronomy, science and academics, I attempt to throw...
