3 hours ago by skanaras

The world is different at 3 a.m. The dog’s asleep, and if she were around, probably snoring a nice soothing rhythm. But she’s at a friend’s house for the weekend, and I am at my mom’s house. There’s a lamp, one of those giant post lamps that blasts light into the huge family room compensating for th ...

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10 hours ago

Follow me on Tumblr! (AGAIN!) http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Tour de Nerdfighting CD available now: http://dftba.com/product/zp/2012-Tour-De-Nerdfighting-Album In which Hank explains how and why phycisists think that the univers has no edge.

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11 hours ago by Paul

This week I recommend to follow @AsteroidWatch for tweets from JPL’s Near Earth Object Office, which coordinates NASA’s efforts to detect, track, and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that could approach Earth. For more Twitter follow suggestions see our … Continue reading →

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12 hours ago by Denny Lyon

The Soul Calendar: Awesome Space Station Videos of Glowing Earth Aurora: From Denny: Check out the glowing rim of the Earth as seen from the Space Station. The sun was highly active exploding out a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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13 hours ago by Harlequin Tea Set

I visited Greenwich recently to see the clocks and mechanisms based around the National Martime Museum, which gave an interesting history of Britain and it’s sea adventures. Another interesting place visited was the Royal Observatory which had some huge telescopes to see and also shows you some very ...

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14 hours ago by catholicsensibility

One great thing about science is how its discoveries continue to confound the experts. Venus has slowed down six minutes and thirty seconds in the past twenty years. How on earth does that happen? I mean: how in the hell does that happen? The Venus Express probe found that surface features were twel ...

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15 hours ago by Heather Goss

As we continue to explore our world, our solar system, our galaxy, and our universe, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand exactly how massively big it is…and how tiny we are in comparison. Most of us will never travel to space — much less to far reaches outside our solar system — and get ...

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18 hours ago by Andy Finney

The current edition of Sir Patrick Moore's long-running BBCTV astronomy programme, The Sky at Night, is called Age of the Infrared (follow the link for the schedule). The program abstract says: Space telescopes such as Herschel and Spitzer are peering at the dusty, dark cosmos and with their infrare ...

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18 hours ago by John F. Ptak

John William Nicholson / mathematical and astronomical papers, 1905-1916. 25 offprints, all in original wrappers. $950/all The following from the Oxford University site, Mathematics at Balliol College, Modern: "John Nicholson was Mathematics Tutor at Balliol from 1919-1931. Around 1912 Nicholson had ...

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19 hours ago by professordoktor

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers le ...

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