Another report from the SDSS conference is up on the Discovery blog, but I wanted to write about the penultimate talk, describing the next stage for the survey.
Sloan has been through two phases of operation already, and now SDSS-III is about to start, incorporating four separate surveys, each with a different mission. The first, [...]
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If you’d like to know how to rule out intergalactic war on extremely large scales, then you’ll need to wander over to my Discovery blog.
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My first note from the SDSS conference in Chicago is up over on my Discovery blog, reporting on the discovery of a new companion to the Milky Way. There will be more posts there (and possibly) here later today and tomorrow.
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A nice piece of observation in this week’s Science sent me off on a tangent. You can see the results over at the Discovery Blog.
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My latest post over at the Discovery blog is a report on a very nice piece of work from a team led by people here in Oxford; they’ve detected the very beginning of a supernova explosion.
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You can read my thoughts on chasing one of the Netherland’s most famous astronomers around here.
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I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be writing for Discovery’s new website, over at http://space.discovery.com. There are a couple of articles up already, and I’ll try and post links here when I write. My fellow bloggers, including Jennifer Ouellette of the excellent Cocktail Party Physics are well worth a look too.
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