mia_mcdavid and I heard Christian Ready talk about this Friday night at Windycon.
Tag Archives: astronomy
Smart kid!
37 years later…
Don’t trust the headline!
At USA Today you can see the title: Mystery solved: Dark energy isn’t there.
But in the body of the article it says:
The only problem is that for the equations to work, we must be “literally at the center of the universe, which is, to say the least, unusual,” says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University in Tempe. “I think this is plausible mathematics, but it doesn’t seem physically relevant.”
So in order to get “mystery solved” you have to assume something that science has been moving away from ever since Copernicus.
Much more at Dark Energy: Still a Puzzle.
From logarithms to Shakespeare
Colliding Galaxies
The hole in Jupiter
The black spot is huge, nearly 10,000 kilometers across, making it roughly the size of the Earth.
Following up on this post.
A violent universe out there
Thankful for an institution
While at Convergence I heard there is a movement to get a star named after Michael Jackson. This idea is destined to the oblivion it deserves: All nomenclature of the sky is managed (quite well, IMHO) by the International Astronomical Union, which is not going to do anything so silly.