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| Image Credit: Patuxent Widlife Research Center, USGS
When I was a kid, I thought that whooping cough was a disease caused by whooping cranes (pictured above). But, it isn't. It's... | |
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| Image Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Some acquaintances of mine in the United Kingdom have discovered two white dwarf stars that have a lot of oxygen in their atmospheres. One of them, with... | |
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| Image Credit: NASA/ Don Davis
Today, the movie 2012 opens in theaters. The basic plot is that the Mayan calendar ends on the solstice in 2012, portending doom for all on this... | |
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| Last month, after NASA's LCROSS spacecraft failed to make a noticeable splash when landing on the moon, I blogged about how it could take months for the data to be analyzed. Well, it took only... | |
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| Image Credit: Steven DeGennaro
Today, we astronomers are honored to welcome yet another newly-minted PhD into our midst: Steven DeGennaro. Steve is a graduate student here at the... | |
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| The past several weeks I've been working on funding proposals for the National Science Foundation. This just means I'm asking the government for money to do research. And, despite what... | |
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| Image Credit: James Liebert
Those of you who regularly read my blog know that I often write about colleagues who are moving on to the next step in their careers, be it postdoctoral... | |
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| Image Credit: McDonald Observatory
Today we were treated to a lecture in memory of Antoinette de Vaucouleurs, who was an astronomer here at the University of Texas at Austin for 25... | |
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| Image Credit: McDonald Observatory
Crystal clear skies. Maybe even clearer. This is how I like my observing runs. I'm finishing the 10th night of a 13-night observing run... | |
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| Image Credit: IYA2009/ James White
Galilean Nights, one of the cornerstone projects of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, takes place around the world this weekend! The goal of... | |
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