Tag Archives: Astronomy

2010 Mar 23 Tuesday

Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn (via TED.com)

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Very cool talk by planetary scientist Carolyn Porco on the Cassini space probe‘s investigation of Saturn and its moons…kinda makes you feel impressed by human potential. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn | Video on TED.com

by Dr. Agonize @ 9:21 pm

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2010 Mar 22 Monday

Halley’s Comet, Or Why We Need Photographs (via Gizmodo)

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When Halley’s Comet blew through the neighborhood last, I was almost 10, and old enough to grasp the cosmic importance of seeing it with my own eyes. I did the math: the next time the “snowy dirtball” would do a flyby, I’d be dead or really freakin’ old. Unfortunately, I was not old enough to [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:56 pm

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2009 Jul 16 Thursday

We Choose the Moon: Earth Orbit Begins

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This website is truly interesting…far more so than the recent movie about our huge grey satellite. It’s a recreation of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon with audio, video, photos, and data from the real event… We Choose the Moon: Earth Orbit Begins

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:46 am

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2009 Apr 11 Saturday

Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor Films (via Vimeo)

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The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced [...]

by Jeff @ 12:37 pm

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2008 Apr 21 Monday

2,100-year-old astrological calculator

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The Antikythera Mechanism is a very cool device: …the front of the mechanism shows two concentric circular scales, the inner one showing the Greek zodiac with 360 divisions. The outer, moveable scale is the Egyptian calendar, with 12 30-day months plus five days… The movie Zeitgeist has gotten me thinking about the importance that the [...]

by Jeff @ 7:33 pm

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2007 Nov 06 Tuesday

Halloween Solar Storms (EIT 195A, Oct 17 – Nov 5 2003)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyej0swwVAI Wow, the Sun and its boiling temper is such a beautiful thing to watch. You can also see the effect that the flare-ups have on the recording equipment.

by Jeff @ 4:42 pm

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2005 Jul 20 Wednesday

Google the moon

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Google keeps the fresh new features coming…like Easter Eggs in a video game!

by Jeff @ 10:53 pm

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2004 Sep 02 Thursday

SETI might actually have found something…

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A telescope in Puerto Rico has picked up a radio signal from deep space three times, lending credibility to the likelihood of intelligent origins. If it is found a few more times “it really begins to get exciting,” says Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath in western England. Data from the telescope was [...]

by Jeff @ 12:15 pm

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2004 Apr 03 Saturday

Space Balls to Measure Twisting Effect

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In 1916 Einstein predicted that gravity changes the shape, or the flow, of spacetime. BBC News reports that NASA’s Gravity B Probe will test those predicted effects using four quartz balls in a vacuum tube. A warping effect has been detected, but the twisting effect (called frame-dragging) has not. The satellite is set to launch [...]

by Jeff @ 12:46 pm

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2004 Mar 15 Monday

New Planetoid Dubbed Sedna

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The rumor of a tenth planet has been bandied about by practical jokers and space geeks forever, so why did it take so long for scientists to confirm that this object exists? These images comparing orbits clears it up a bit, and there’s this: “The planetoid is so far from the sun, it takes 10,500 [...]

by Jeff @ 10:19 pm

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