Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

This coming Friday, April 4, Dr. Rob Knop will give a talk titled “The Power of the Dark Side: How Dark Matter and Dark Energy dominate our Universe.” Dr. Knop was on the team that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe. …
Original post by Troy

I just arrived in LA after an unremarkable flight (which, ironically, is remarkable these days), and I’m in the hotel room waiting for the other Skeptologists to get back from various errands. Upon firing up teh intertoobs, …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Hartley will discuss his findings at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on today. Quick work The galaxies give away their elderly and inactive status by their reddish color, indicative of old stars. …
Original post by Cmarchesin

After the foofooraw over the LHC a few days ago, much has been said about some folks erroneously thinking the collider will destroy the Earth. As usual, the wonderous and magnificent Jennifer Ouillette has stepped up, pointing out that …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Science writer and broadcaster Timothy Ferris will be on campus April 9 to present a screening of his PBS film, “Seeing in the Dark,” about the joys of amateur astronomy and its contributions to science. The event will start at 7.30 pm …
Original post by Andy

The lowest-mass known black hole belongs to a binary system named XTE J1650-500. The black hole has about 3.8 times the mass of our sun, and is orbited by a companion star, as depicted in this illustration. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobar …
Original post by Cmarchesin

According to today’s issue of New American Scientific Discoveries, the Large Binocular Telescope has found out what the so-called Dark Matter really is. It has been a mystery why models of galactic rotation do not fit the observed …
Original post by tdvance

When I got the asteroid named after me recently, I sent along a press release to my local paper The Daily Camera, because they like to run local-astronomer-makes-good stories. Their science reporter, Laura Snider, agreed to talk to me …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Jedi Master Jonba Hehol - known to family and friends as Barney Jones, 36, of Holyhead - was giving a TV interview in his back garden for a documentary when a man, dressed in a black bin-bag and wearing Darth Vader’s trademark shiny …
Original post by Tuckerfan

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Original post by ToSeek