I do believe it’s true…Galaxy Zoo will be going live in less than a week. We need your help to sort through the million or so galaxies imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. No experience is required, and you get to be literally the first person to set eyes on part sof the Universe [...]
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The 10th Carnival of Space is up. Go and take a look!
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The BBC ask Six decades on from the first flying saucer, is the riddle solved?
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Not by anyone with their grasp of maths, I think:
And for every sceptic who prefers explanations of weather balloons and freak atmospheric conditions there is someone who genuinely believes intelligent life is visiting the planet. A national newspaper survey in 1998 [...] -
This month’s Sky at Night has been shifted all over the place. Sunday’s first episode was late, and the BBC4 extended edition which was supposed to go out yesterday will now go out NEXT Monday, the 9th, at 8.30pm. The repeat on BBC2 will be on Sunday at 12pm (although if the Wimbledon schedule continues [...]
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I’ve been reading Stephen Jay Gould’s The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (highly recommended, by the way) so perhaps I’m more aware than usual of crossovers between science and arts, but I think I’ve found a new analogy to use in lectures.
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I visited the Hayward Gallery in London to see the Antony Gormley [...] -
I managed to forget to put a link up to this week’s Living Space which features an extended interview with Associate Director of UKIRT, Andy Adamson, and Associate Director of the JCMT, Antonio Chrysostomou (whose name I garbled horribly).
Do go and listen for all the latest from my two favourite telescopes.addthis_url [...]
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