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Science vs Consumer Detectors: Thank you, Mary.
I have been trying to figure out recently why people don’t understand what IR detector data looks like, given that we have examples and studies and in a few cases specifications of what we… more →
Tom Comeau, Geek Dad
M51 Hubble Remix
jtintle wrote 2 days ago: Credits: S. Beckwith (STScI), Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA Additional Processing: R … more →
Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion
jtintle wrote 2 days ago: Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA), the HST Orion Treasury Project Team, & L. Ricci (ESO … more →
Koala Fires MPMF.09
Kendall Bruns wrote 3 months ago: Koala Fires will be performing at the MidPoint Music Festival on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 9:30p … more →
Science vs Consumer Detectors: Thank you, Mary.
Tom Comeau wrote 4 months ago: I have been trying to figure out recently why people don’t understand what IR detector data lo … more →
The Eagle Has Risen & Other Stellar Public Domain Images
havealittletalk wrote 6 months ago: Did you realize that most of the images the Hubble telescope has relayed home to Earth which have be … more →
The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble
jtintle wrote 7 months ago: Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA Explanation: In 1787, astronomer William He … more →
Orion Nebula: The Hubble View
jtintle wrote 9 months ago: Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) et al. Description: Few cosmic vistas excite the imaginat … more →
HUBBLE TELESCOPE: PHOTOS OF FOMALHAUT PLANET
Particular Kev wrote 1 year ago: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been used to take the first visible-light photograph of a planet o … more →
SN 1996cr: Powerful Nearby Supernova Caught By Web
jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Columbia/F.Bauer et al); Optical (NASA/STScI/UMD/A.Wilson et al.) Explanatio … more →
A Clash of Clusters Provides Another Clue to Dark Matter
jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray(NASA/CXC/Stanford/S.Allen); Optical/Lensing(NASA/STScI/UC Santa Barbara/M.Bradac) Addi … more →
NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux
jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI Addition Images: JPEG (391kb) Tiff (9.3 MB) PS (7.8 … more →
"No Organics" Zone Circles Pinwheel
jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Description: The Pinwheel galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 101, sports bright reddish edges in thi … more →
NGC 4649: A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes
jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Univ. of California Irvine/P.Humphrey et al.); Optical (NASA/STScI) Other Pi … more →
Macs take over astronomy
Tom Comeau wrote 1 year ago: Okay, maybe not all of astronomy, but I got these numbers yesterday from the people who handle HST p … more →
M33 X-7:Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
jtintle wrote 2 years ago: Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/P.Plucinsky et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/ … more →
Eta Carinae: New View of Doomed Star
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jtintle wrote 2 years ago: Credit: X-ray:NASA/CXC/GSFC/M.Corcoran et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI Description: Eta Carinae is a mys … more →
Is Junk E-mail Impeding Postal Mail?
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Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: I get 200-300 email messages a day in my three accounts, about two-thirds of them in my STScI (work) … more →
Tim Wise followup: Implicit Preference?
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: Harvard University has a series of tests of implicit assumptions people make, under the aegis of Pro … more →
It's not what the software does, it's what the user does.
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: hugh macleod at Gaping Void does these great little cartoons, “drawn on the back of business c … more →
