Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2010
Digital Journal of Photography: Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2010 – Results. Gorgeous astronomy photos at the link above, all winners of this year’s Royal Observatory competition. The winner is shown above. The young astronomy photographer winner is a 14-year old Indian boy, with a photo of a solar eclipse taken on an older digital […]
An Enchanting Time-Lapse Look at the Greatest Show in Space
An Enchanting Time-Lapse Look at the Greatest Show in Space. Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo. Beautiful time-lapse video of the recent Perseid meteor shower. Pretty awe-inspiring. [Via Gizmodo]
Bad Astronomy and some drawbacks to personal DNA testing
A few quick things that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while: I’ve added a link to the Bad Astronomy blog by one of my favorite astronomers/debunkers of pseudoscience. Always an enjoyable read, and another example of how to run a good blog. And today’s post mentioned the Amazing Randi, with some links […]
Another long hiatus – lots to catch up
Well, it’s been a while since I made time to blog (Should be able to get back to something approaching regularity from today). To get things up to speed, here’s a stunning picture by the Hubble Space Telescope; see below for more links sites celebrating 20 years of Hubble. Been busy, doing some more freelance […]
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science. This is a section that appears every January in Popular Science, and tries to predict the top news stories of the upcoming year. I wrote two sections in it, ‘Life After Death?’ and ‘Births and Deaths’ (on pages 2 and 5 respectively), but I just posted […]
Interview: NASA Scientist’s Plan to Extract Moon Water Affordably Using Microwaves | Popular Science
I had a chat with Dr. Ed Ethridge, who’s been using microwaves to extract water from the moon. Now that there actually seems to be a lot more water on the moon than previously predicted, we need a way to get it out. Microwaves seem to be currently the most promising technology for this. Follow […]