Okay, maybe not all of astronomy, but I got these numbers yesterday from the people who handle HST proposal submissions: Platform Proposals Mac OS X 492 Linux 297 Windows … more →
Tom Comeau, Geek Dadhavealittletalk wrote 2 weeks ago: Did you realize that most of the images the Hubble telescope has relayed home to Earth which have be … more →
jtintle wrote 2 months ago: Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA Explanation: In 1787, astronomer Will … more →
jtintle wrote 4 months ago: Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) et al. Description: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagin … more →
Particular Kev wrote 8 months ago: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been used to take the first visible-light photograph of a planet o … more →
jtintle wrote 9 months ago: Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Columbia/F.Bauer et al); Optical (NASA/STScI/UMD/A.Wilson et al.) Explanati … more →
jtintle wrote 10 months ago: Credit: X-ray(NASA/CXC/Stanford/S.Allen); Optical/Lensing(NASA/STScI/UC Santa Barbara/M.Bradac) Add … more →
jtintle wrote 11 months ago: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI Addition Images: JPEG (391kb) Tiff (9.3 MB) PS (7 … more →
jtintle wrote 11 months ago: Description: The Pinwheel galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 101, sports bright reddish edges in th … more →
jtintle wrote 12 months ago: Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Univ. of California Irvine/P.Humphrey et al.); Optical (NASA/STScI) Other P … more →
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 →
jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/P.Plucinsky et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI … more →
jtintle wrote 2 years ago: Credit: X-ray:NASA/CXC/GSFC/M.Corcoran et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI Description: Eta Carinae is a my … more →
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 →
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: Harvard University has a series of tests of implicit assumptions people make, under the aegis of Pr … more →
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: hugh macleod at Gaping Void does these great little cartoons, “drawn on the back of business c … more →
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: So, here are my usual almost stream-of-consciousness notes from today’s All-Hands meeting. T … more →
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: Here’s an experiment: They need a category “Java One Noob” for people like me. tc … more →
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: With the HST contract signed, we will probably do another staffing plan. Fortunately, we have a run … more →
Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: It’s official, I’m moving over to lead the System Engineering Branch. The last three yea … more →