blog results Professor Astrono... (1) | | 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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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | 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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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | Image Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech
Our Solar System is such a nice, ordered place. Eight (or nine or thirteen) planets have been happily circling our sun for 4.6 billion years, and the whole... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | Image Credit: NASA/ ESA/ K. Barbary
In spite of everything we know about the Universe, there are still some things out there that we cannot yet even provide a basic explanation for. At the... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | After two days at a conference on stellar death and supernovae, it's become pretty obvious that the more we learn about Type Ia supernovae, the less we seem to know or understand. It's fairly... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | This week I am conferencing. I'm in Santa Barbara, California, at a conference called "Stellar Death and Supernovae". As you might guess from the name of the conference, we're spending the week... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | Yesterday, University of Texas grad student Elizabeth Jeffery successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, becoming the newest PhD astronomer. Congratulations, Elizabeth!Dr. Jeffery's thesis... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | Image Credit: McDonald Observatory
Since returning from last weekend's teacher workshop, I've been working on planning observations with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the largest telescope at... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | I'm out at McDonald Observatory again for our summer teacher workshop on white dwarfs and the age of the Milky Way galaxy. This is my fourth year of participating in the workshops (look in the blog... | |
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 Professor Astrono... (1) | | Sorry to have been quiet recently, I've been fighting a bout of writer's block. It's not a lack of ideas, it's just that none of them make for even mildly interesting entries. (Of course, this... | |
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