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Texas conservatives screw history | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

14 Mar 2010 at 10:04am
Antiscience | I recently posted that Don McLeroy, a Texas conservative creationist buffoon on the State School Board of Education, lost his re-election bid. That was good new.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/03/14/texas-conserv atives-screw-history/

Astronomy.com - Scientists say Einstein's theory applies beyond ...

15 Mar 2010 at 5:11pm
"All of our ideas in astronomy are based on this really enormous extrapolation, so anything we can do to see whether this is right or not on these scales is just enormously important," Gunn said. "It adds another brick to the foundation ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=9667

Astronomy.com - Saturn to make its best appearance of the year

15 Mar 2010 at 5:11pm
Saturn's opposition, March 21, marks the best time of year to view the ringed planet because it lies closest to Earth and thus appears its biggest and brightest. Astronomy magazine has all the tools you need to get the most of this ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=9666

Bestsellers in Astronomy | adwarriors.com

16 Mar 2010 at 12:49am
1 A Brief History of Time 321 reviews A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and.
http://adwarriors.com/blog/bestsellers-in-astronomy-52/

Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide - Mediafire, Rapidshare, Megaupload

16 Mar 2010 at 7:10am
Posted by DDN at 06:10 PM Today. Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide Rapidshare, Megaupload, Torrent, Mediafire, Hotfile. Astronomy: A Self-Teaching.
http://dailydown.net/15881-astronomy-self-teaching-guide.html

Buying Your First Astronomy Telescope

16 Mar 2010 at 8:48am
When we were children we were often taught that we could wish upon the first star that we saw in the evening sky. After that wish was made and if we b.
http://www.computers-tech.global-article.ws/buying-your-first-astronomy -telescope.html

Astronomy Without A Telescope ? Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup ...

13 Mar 2010 at 4:09pm
The most powerful operational heavy-ion collider in the world, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) recently recorded the highest ever temperature created.
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/13/astronomy-without-a-telescope-h ome-made-quark-gluon-soup/

Fly over Mars! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

12 Mar 2010 at 3:30pm
Cool stuff | Via Emily at the Planetary Society blog comes this amazing animation, a three-dimensional flyover of Candor Chasma on Mars generated using HiRISE data. Holy cow.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/03/12/fly-over-mars /

UPDATE: Texas revisionist McLeroy on ABC | Bad Astronomy ...

14 Mar 2010 at 7:09pm
About this blog | [This is an update to my previous post, Texas conservatives screw history, so you should read that first to get your blood to a rapid boil before reading this.]
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/03/14/update-texas- revisionist-mcleroy-on-abc/

Yamaguchi understand black holes and the Korea Astronomy ...

16 Mar 2010 at 12:52am
[ Feature ]; Yamaguchi understand black holes and the Korea Astronomy Observatory Alliance; Elucidation of the structure and formation processes of stars and black holes, the headquarters of the Korea Astronomy Observatory Radio ...
http://jp.newses.net/news/article/id/87b5ade29a0d5ec8baf8bcb7ae46ddba/< br />

Astronomy or Astrology | NEWS 2 ALL . DE

16 Mar 2010 at 6:54am
Astronomy or AstrologyHave you ever finally given in to temptation and read your horoscope in the newspaper on Sunday morning? OK,OK, fewer and fewer people.
http://www.news2all.de/wissenschaft/raum-astronomie/astronomy-or-astrol ogy/

Astronomy for Kids: Gemini ? Twins Everywhere! | Universe Today

14 Mar 2010 at 11:39am
Now that we've hunted down Orion and been bull ridin' with Taurus, it's time for us to discover a pair of celestial brothers - the Gemini twins. Gemini is one.
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/14/gemini-twins-everywhere/

Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog: Happy 50th Birthday to Kitt ...

15 Mar 2010 at 10:16pm
This meant that astronomers who wanted to use telescopes had to either be employed by the observatory or had to strike some sort of deal (like buying part of the telescope or building a new camera for the telescope). ...
http://blog.professorastronomy.com/2010/03/happy-50th-birthday-to-kitt- peak.html

How Galileo's Telescope Changed Astronomy | stillaig.com

15 Mar 2010 at 10:18pm
Before Galileo turned his telescope toward the night sky the act of astronomy was pretty much an astrological pursuit where objects and motions of object in the sky were explained using ancient and archaic understandings of the universe ...
http://stillaig.com/blog/telescopes/how-galileo%E2%80%99s-telescope-cha nged-astronomy/

Why were pulsars such surprise? - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today ...

15 Mar 2010 at 4:57pm
This is really a history question, not astronomy question. Right up until Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars, all astronomers AFAIK dismissed neutron.
http://www.bautforum.com/space-astronomy-questions-answers/101966-why-w ere-pulsars-such-surprise.html

I'm looking for "real" information on Vampires - Bad Astronomy and ...

16 Mar 2010 at 8:45am
Basically, I'm looking for a source (preferably on-line) that has the most complete, original information about vampires. The abilities, strengths,
http://www.bautforum.com/off-topic-babbling/101980-im-looking-real-info rmation-vampires.html

"Lunar mirror mystery solved" - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum

16 Mar 2010 at 7:30am
So much for the Moon as an astronomers paradise:- Scientists believe lunar dust heated by the Sun is degrading the performance of the Apollo reflector.
http://www.bautforum.com/astronomy/101977-lunar-mirror-mystery-solved.h tml

Morning Astronomy Pix � The Call of Troythulu

16 Mar 2010 at 8:00am
Bad Astronomy Blog � Make it so tiny March 15, 2010, 23:00. This. Is. AWESOME!!! That is a model of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, created using an ion beam that guides vaporized chemicals and deposits them ...
http://kestalusrealm.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/morning-astronomy-pix-12/

Ebooks Free Download: Astronomy with a Home Computer

15 Mar 2010 at 11:10am
Ebooks Free Download | Astronomy with a Home Computer | There can be little doubt that computers revolutionized amateur astronomy through the 1990s in the same way as mass-produced Schmidt-Cassegrain (or SCT) telescopes did in the 1970s ...
http://ebooks-freedownload.com/2010/03/astronomy-with-home-computer.htm l