For reasons a long way beyond our control, this month’s Sky at Night will be broadcast on Sunday 11th, rather than this Sunday as normal. Your first chance to catch up with Venus Express and the world of extra-solar planets will therefore be on Monday 6th at 7pm on BBC4.
In the meantime, you could celebrate [...]
Posts made in October, 2006
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I’m really looking forward to starting work on our special Sky at Night on Mars, due for broadcast as the 650th program in January. We’ve had this in the diary for years, but kept waiting for the rovers Spirit and Opportunity to die. We’re still – thankfully – waiting, and we eventually blinked first. One [...]
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I’m a little late in reporting this one, but I thought you’d be interested to see how the observatories on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i (my favourite place in the world) are responding to a larger than usual Earthquake that happened ten or so days ago. That Hawai’i is a violent place is obvious to anyone who [...]
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The launch of the book on Monday was a surreal experience, at least for me. I suppose I’d got used to working with Brian and Patrick and it hadn’t occured to me quite how strange a trio we made! The Guardian had an excellent article which begins
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At roughly 6pm on Friday, I became Dr Lintott. I won’t be changing the title of the blog, but thought I’d mention a rather nice tradition, that of starting one’s thesis with a suitable chosen quotation. Somewhere there is enough material for an academic study of this (what did Einstein choose? What does the difference [...]
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Having publicised the 2mass survey earlier in the month, I can’t resist posting links to a couple of other nice movies which illustrate our place in space.
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The first starts off by flying toward Orion, past some of the galaxy’s highlights before heading to the Virgo cluster via M81 and M82 (a galaxy close to my [...] -
An article in the Guardian today – it’s a good job I have Brian to handle all of this media attention and take the pressure off my busy schedule (!).
Apparantly I am the ‘essential geek anchor’. I’m not really sure if this is a good thing…addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fchrislintott.net%2F2006%2F10%2F19%2Fmore-bang-coverage%2F’;
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The Bang! website has just gone live in anticipation of our launch next week. As well as plugging the book, it should provide a place for me to write updates and articles, like this one on the Bullet cluster. The Bullet is important because many people (including the NASA press office) claim that it provides [...]
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An interview with Brian May appears in New Scientist this week (subscription required), and he seems to have done an excellent job of relating the experience of working on Bang!.
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The three of us would meet at Patrick’s house in Selsey on a Friday night, do a little gentle writing, have a couple of drinks, then [...] -
Simon Jenkins had an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday, which came very, very close to being write. Essentially, his point – made in response to the recent fuss about the new science syllabus – was that we should stop pretending that science should be a compulsory subject much past the age of 14. [...]
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