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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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: bad science, medicine
It's the size of Earth with lots of oxygen, but not a nice place to be.

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: oxygen, atmosphere, white dwarf
Planets come and planets go, but not in 2012

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: bad science, pseudoscience
Water, water, everywhere.

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: space probe, water, moon
Congratulations Steve!

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: astronomers
Begging for money

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: money, proposals
A bitter retirement

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: astronomers, white dwarf
A prized lecture

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: x-rays, astronomers
Clear Skies Abundant

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: observing
Galilean Nights this weekend

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...

Started in Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog • 1 month ago • 0 responses
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