Credit to Andrew Jaffe for alerting me to the fact that ESA’s first press release concerning Planck has now been, well, released… I last blogged about Planck when it had reached its orbit … more →
In the Darktelescoper wrote 3 months ago: Credit to Andrew Jaffe for alerting me to the fact that ESA’s first press release concerning P … more →
telescoper wrote 3 months ago: An interesting paper caught my eye on today’s ArXiv and I thought I’d post something her … more →
telescoper wrote 4 months ago: Musing yesterday about the rapidly approaching restart of the academic year reminded me that I reall … more →
telescoper wrote 4 months ago: An interesting paper on the arXiv yesterday gave me a prod to expand a little on one of the cosmic a … more →
telescoper wrote 7 months ago: The other day I was giving a talk about cosmology at Cardiff University’s Open Day for prospec … more →
Troythulu wrote 8 months ago: It seems to us as if the entire visible universe is expanding at an ever faster pace, a situation th … more →
mfrasca wrote 8 months ago: QuAD is a collaboration that involves several institutions that aims to measure polarization of phot … more →
telescoper wrote 10 months ago: Once a week the small band of cosmologists at Cardiff University have a little discussion group duri … more →
telescoper wrote 11 months ago: Courtesy of NASA/WMAP science team The picture above shows the latest available all-sky map of fluct … more →
telescoper wrote 11 months ago: Back from the frozen North, having had a very nice time over Christmas, I thought it was time to rea … more →
astrostu206265 wrote 1 year ago: Introduction The Big Bang is one of the fundamental theories (and I do mean “theory” in … more →
telescoper wrote 1 year ago: Over on cosmic variance, I found an old post concerning the issue of whether there might be large-sc … more →
telescoper wrote 1 year ago: It’s probably going to be difficult to describe what these images really are without going int … more →
bloggsurfer wrote 1 year ago: Watch these videos from europeanhubblecast on Einstein’s view of the Universe, beautifully mad … more →
evan wrote 1 year ago: I should stop calling these “cop-out” shorties, because apparently they have just become … more →