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Videos On Planck’s Recent Findings
This is a little off my usual beat, but like so many people, I was excited by Planck’s extraordinary map of the Cosmic Background Radiation, the most detailed look yet at the Universe soon after… more →
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Videos On Planck's Recent Findings
wrote 4 weeks ago: This is a little off my usual beat, but like so many people, I was excited by Planck’s extraor … more →
The Keck Observatory Celebrates 20 Years Of Operation
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wrote 1 month ago: The W. M. Keck Observatory went into operation twenty years ago, and at the time its twin 10m-telesc … more →
A new Py-SPHViewer version (0.43) is available
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wrote 1 month ago: A new Py-SPHViewer version (0.43) is available I am happy to inform the release of the 0.43 v … more →
"The Primer Fields Theory" by David La Point - strong electromagnetism
wrote 2 months ago: In this video, physicist David La Point challenges the conventional theory of electromagnetism using … more →
Cosmic Mystery: Missing Dwarf Galaxies
wrote 2 months ago: This video was made by the space.com team and it explains the paper where we report the interaction … more →
The VAO Community Day In Baltimore, November 29 2012.
wrote 5 months ago: The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is holding a series of community days at U.S. astronomica … more →
Simulations and False Assumptions
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wrote 5 months ago: Just time for an afternoon quickie! I saw this abstract by Smith et al. on the arXiv today: Future l … more →
Keck Science Meeting On YouTube!
wrote 7 months ago: This year’s Keck Observatory Science meeting was held at UC San Diego, and included two days o … more →
Exploring the Universe with Machine Learning
wrote 9 months ago: A short while ago, I attended a webinar on the above topic by Alex Gray and Nick Ball. The tradition … more →
Birth of a Galaxy
wrote 10 months ago: Galaxy formation simulation – just add your own soundtrack. 153 Days to Dec 21st 2012 … more →
A Grand Design Challenge
wrote 10 months ago: While I’m incarcerated at home I thought I might as well make myself useful by passing on an i … more →
Have They Nothing Better to Talk About?
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wrote 10 months ago: Ugh. Yet another Higgs article. Hebert writes The Higgs Boson: A Blow to Christianity? The article f … more →
Milky Way Satellites and Dark Matter
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wrote 1 year ago: I found a strange paper on the ArXiv last week, and was interested to see that it had been deemed to … more →
Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research
wrote 1 year ago: This is the title of an interesting paper by Carol Christian et al., in which they discuss the role … more →
Dr. Reinabelle Reyes to give a talk at Ateneo de Manila University on 8 Feb 2012: "Birth and Death of the Milky Way"
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wrote 1 year ago: "The birth and death of a galaxy" by Dr. Reinabelle Reyes The Birth and Death of the Milky … more →
Dr. Reinabelle Reyes of the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics to give a talk on Cosmology at The Mind Museum on 11 Feb 2012
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wrote 1 year ago: Reinabelle Reyes and cosmology Dr. Reinabelle Reyes, Postdoctoral Fellow at Kavli Institute for Cosm … more →
Stargazing (virtually) Live
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wrote 1 year ago: I hope you’ve all been tuning in to the BBC’s astronomy jamboree Stargazing Live. There … more →
The Pegasus Workflow Manager and the Data Tsunami in Astronomy
wrote 1 year ago: I have written in previous posts about the performance of scientific applications on cloud and grid … more →
The Big Bang Didn't Happen
wrote 1 year ago: This is probably all a lot of rubbish but I started thinking about it and needed to write it down. I … more →
