Here’s an excellent image of today’s transit of Venus, as photographed by the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) satellite. It was cloudy here, so I’m just as glad I didn’t get up early enough to try to see it with my ancient Tasco refractor.
If you’re a kid interested in astronomy, as I was, there are few thrills to compare with your first view of the rings of Saturn. So you can imagine how excited astronomers (and ex-kids like myself) are with the imminent arrival of the International Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. The $3 billion space probe, launched October …
If you’re a kid interested in astronomy, as I was, there are few thrills to compare with your first view of the rings of Saturn. So you can imagine how excited astronomers (and ex-kids like myself) are with the imminent arrival of the International Cassini-Huygens Mission at Saturn. The $3 billion space probe, launched October …
…and the world will beat a path to your door. Carbon nanotubes could give us the first major redesign of the incandescent light bulb in more than a century.
…to watch the Transit of Venus, courtesy of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. No one alive has ever seen this phenomenon; the last time it happened was 1882.
This is cool! Researchers are using optical-scanning equipment to create virtual copies of old analog recordings–vinyl disks, wax cylinders–that sound better and can be played over and over again without damaging the original.
SpaceShipOne, the privately built spaceship competing for the X-prize, has set a launch date–June 21.
…can keep heart disease away, says a new study. Sweet news indeed!
Wil McCarthy’s Lab Notes is my favorite take so far on that eminently silly blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow.
Most people know the appendix is a vestigial organ, a body part that no longer serves any function. But it’s hardly the only one. Our bodies are littered with bits and pieces that serve no apparent function. Some are leftovers from ancient ancestors, others leftovers of prenatal development, just hanging around the body because they’re …
If the concept of dark energy doesn’t intrigue you, you have no scientific romance in your soul.
Check out the groovy rings of Saturn in the latest Cassini image. And The Pajama Game run went splendidly, thanks for asking! Blogging should be more frequent again now.
