The launch of COROT is excellent news, but the work is only just beginning for the team behind what will be the first of several planet-hunting missions. The hard bit is extracting the tiny signal which represents the transit of a Earth across the face of a star from the huge mass of data. COROT’s [...]
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January is the 650th Sky at Night program, and we had a little party to celebrate when filming last week (normally we film very close to transmission, but with Christmas we’ve taken a gamble. This is probably the best way to induce a bright comet.). There’s a write-up in the Guardian.
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I know, long time no post. All I can do is say sorry and move on! I’ve still got a post from California on the way, but this weekend I joined Omega Holidays on one of their trips to see the Northern lights. Unlike those I’ve done before, involving turning all the lights off and [...]
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JPL was personally something of a disappointment. We got some wonderful interviews – which you’ll see in due course – with many of the people involved in Mars missions past and present, and I feel like I’m finally getting my head around exactly what the current state of our knowledge of the planet is. Why [...]
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