It may seem too early to be thinking about it, but across the world eclipse chasers are getting ready for the best eclipse of the 21st century which takes place on July 22nd next year. With total solar eclipses like this one, it’s all about the length of totality and – if you’re in the [...]
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I’ve really missed podcasting since the demise of Living Space’s previous incarnation, and the odd interview just isn’t the same. I’m delighted to say that I’ve managed to cajole the very busy and very knowledgeable Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, the European Southern Observatory to join me. You can listen to our first show here :
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Following my post over the weekend about the dangers of satellite building, here’s JPL’s excellent video about the Phoenix landing.
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From the BBC News site this evening:
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It’s exam season in Oxford, and I’ve made my first sightings of scared looking undergraduates in formal academic dress heading for the exam schools. I’m used, at this time of year, to waking up in the middle of the night tormented by dreams of the years that I sat through exam after exam after exam. [...]
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This week’s carnival of space is up here, and it contains an excellent post by someone apparently called Charles Lintott…
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I promise a post about NASA’s announcement will follow when I have some time and am awake. In the meantime, I’m getting lots of emails about this story; a robot conducting an orchestra is being billed as a great breakthrough.
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I promise a post about NASA’s announcement will follow when I have some time and am awake. In the meantime, I’m getting lots of emails about this story; a robot conducting an orchestra is being billed as a great breakthrough.
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At 6pm UK time today, NASA are announcing what they bill as “the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.” I’ll be blogging the press conference live…
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I wanted to share this snippet from Sebastian Faulkes’ Engleby, a novel set in the Cambridge of the 1970s.
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Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet [...]