Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

It’sa short-ish podcast which discusses the history of Slacker Astronomy with Aaron Price, the founder of Slacker Astronomy, and includes random musings by yours truly about the future of the podcast/blog. I marked this explicit in …
Original post by michael

Text and images have been reproduced here with kind permission of Astronomy Now and Nick Howes respectively. The Imaging Source make a vast number of cameras, with a range of interface types, including IEEE 1394, commonly referred to as …
Original post by Jonathan Maron

We just got back from Carolyn Porco’s talk in Boulder about the Cassini mission to Saturn (yes, my whole family went — quite the occasion!). It was, as usual, very inspiring and interesting — and this is the third time I’ve seen it. …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

From The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Visit our Monthly Sky Highlights and Moon Phase Calendars page for more information.
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Is there such a thing as “Moon weather”? (answer). From The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Original post by unknown

What’s better than a story about a blurry, grainy, out of focus overly-zoomed in photo of a UFO? Stories that don’t even have pictures. We have two — yes, count e’m, TWO — stories of UFOs seen with no footage, just eyewitness reports. …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

WARNING The Astronomy-Physics program has determined that doing poorly in Astronomy 101 may have deleterious impact beyond your GPA. Students failing Astronomy 101 report a higher incidence of: deaths of grandparents, close relatives …
Original post by Juan

A museum exhibit is getting ready to travel the country with an extremely controversial idea: evolution isn’t perfect. Oh wait, that’sa false controversial idea. Reality-based folks know it’s not perfect. We have bad backs, …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Although nights here in Finland are going to be bright on summer time, HomeboyAstronomy.Com is not going to be quiet. We will write astronomy articles on summer time as well, but not necessarily every day. Stay with HomeboyAstronomy. …
Original post by marko