http://chrislintott.net The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:05:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm still in the US, where we've been filming pieces for the next few Sky at Nights. I need to write up the amazing two days we spent in mission control for Phoenix, but for now the Discovery blog has details of the Large Binocular Telescope and the alien-hunting Allen ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/30/talks-and-travels/ 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. http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/20/discovery-post-why-constants-are-constant/ I'm shortly off of my travels again, recording interviews for Sky at Night in California and Arizona. On the way back, I'm visiting Pamela of astronomycast fame to work on a few projects. If anyone lives in or around St Louis, U.S.A., then you might be interested, nay, delighted, to ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/19/public-talk-in-edwardsville-near-st-louis/ With the successful landing of Discovery a few minutes ago, the next mission on the schedule is a trip to the Hubble Space Telescope, a mission which ranks as one of the most ambitious ever planned, and one which I'm extremely excited about. Welcome home Discovery, and fingers crossed for ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/14/discovery-down-next-stop-hubble/ 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. http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/12/new-discovery-post-up-2/ You can read my thoughts on chasing one of the Netherland's most famous astronomers around here. http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/11/new-discovery-post-up/ This is a screenshot from NASA TV's media channel coverage of the GLAST telescope launch. All seems to be going well so far, but commentary is being provided by the chap you can see here, running up and down along the large bank of screens in front of him. I thought ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/11/not-quite-so-glamourous-any-more/ You now don't have to listen to my attempt to parse Sean Carroll's talk, but can go and read his take on the research at Cosmic Variance. In commenting here, Sean said I was mostly trying to make the point that, although multiverse ideas are very new and underdeveloped, ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/09/in-his-own-words/ At any conference there's one talk that changes the way you think about something, or crystalizes thoughts that you've had anyway. In the last few months I'd been thinking carefully about the answer to the question 'but what happened before the Big Bang', and a talk by Cosmic Variance blogger ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/06/a-time-before-the-big-bang/ 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 ... http://chrislintott.net/2008/06/06/discovery-blogs/