This makes me extremely angry. And it’s dangerous too. In the US, when the religious lobby attempt to import creationism into science classes, there’s the constitutionally defined separation between church and state to fall back on, and so it is sufficient to demonstrate in court that Intellegent Design/Creationism is not science. British schools have no [...]
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An excellent lecture last night at the BAA by Doug Ellison who is doing incredible things with images from the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. He highlighted a result I hadn’t seen before – Spirit’s image of the Orion Nebula. It may not look much, but astronomy from the surface of another planet impressed [...]
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A wonderful sequence of images from Pete Lawrence obtained as part of the Sun program filming yesterday. Using a hydrogen-alpha filter it was possible to view the gas 2000km or so above the visible surface of the Sun (the ‘photosphere’) and see the kind of prominences only normally on show at an eclipse.
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Have been filming for the BBC4 special on the Sun – to be broadcast on the 20th February as part of a two-part series (the other is on the Moon, was filmed earlier in the year and is excellent) – which included an interview with Fred Espernak. He showed us what I think is the [...]
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With NASA’s New Horizons probe to Pluto about to take off (with any luck) I can’t help but think that it’s a few years too late. Assuming it can be launched by early February, it will swing by Jupiter and arrive at the ninth ‘planet’ in nine years time, which is pretty fast. However, [...]
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Made it back to London after a fairly uneventful flight back. We did head into downtown San Francisco, but as I was terminally sleep deprived I’m afraid it seemed like a dream. A dream featuring a world famous prison, so par for the course really!
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As will probably be obvious in the final program that we’re filming out here, I have a very strong affection for the JCMT as it’s the telescope that I’ve used for my own observations. It was wonderful to be sitting in the control room yesterday as the scientists from Cambridge worked on commissioning the new [...]
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Just about to go back to the summit to film sunrise, but had to share UKIRT’s image of the chicken nebula. An imposing presence, especially when I kept catching his/her gaze out the corner of my eye while trying to conduct an interview.
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Wonderful day up on the mountain yesterday visiting Gemini North. There are new photos up on the Flickr stream including an excellent shot (if I do say so myself) of Gemini open and ready for the night. The sides of the dome open up to allow a smooth flow of air, keeping the mirror clean [...]
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