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Orlando Science Center: Month of astronomy events
Thu, 03 May 2012 12:53:53 -0700
Orlando Science Center is expanding its Astronomy Day event, sprinkling events over select weekends through June 2. Activities will include SunWatch sessions, where visitors will peer at the sun through the Crosby Observatory telescope; four NASA speakers; “Orlando by Night,” a live planetarium show in the Dr. Phillips CineDome; the “Science on a Sphere” exhibit and the Kinesthetic [...]
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xkcd is the very model of a modern major science grad | Bad Astronomy
Mon, 07 May 2012 08:15:24 -0700
Hmmmm… the astronomer in today’s xkcd comic looks familiar, even as a stick figure. At least he didn’t draw me as a zombie . But I’m no Feynman. And hey, together with SMBC I think this makes me king of the four-letter comics. I mean, um. Well. [N.B. And yes, it really is me, I got word from The Man himself. Funny how a minimalist drawing with some context invokes recognition; I've been getting ...
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Australia hails surprise super-telescope decision
Fri, 25 May 2012 19:47:25 -0700
Australia has hailed a surprise decision giving it a role in a radio telescope project aimed at revolutionising astronomy, vowing to draw on its decades of experience in space science.
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Big Picture Science: Antivaxxers (and updates) | Bad Astronomy
Tue, 15 May 2012 10:56:32 -0700
I do a roughly monthly segment with astronomer Seth Shostak on Big Picture Science, a radio show/podcast done by The SETI In< 2.4 kilometer- < May 2012 11:43:09 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A NASA-sponsored astronomy program for 9-14 year-olds will be held this summer at the Nahant Public Library and at East Point Solar Observatory.<br /><a href="" style="text-decoration: none;">Read More...</a></p></div><div style="margin: 5px 15px 5px 15px;"><h3>Saturn, surreally | Bad Astronomy</h3><p>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:31:02 -0700<br />Take 7+ years of Saturn observations by the Cassini spacecraft, stitch a whole lot of them together into short, film-noir-like segments, and add a Beethoven soundtrack. What do you get? Awesomeness . The video was put together by Nahum Chazarra , who says on Twitter he’s a "Geology student, science lover". There’s literally too much in this to describe! Moons, rings, the planet itself… but I ...<br /><a href="" style="text-decoration: none;">Read More...</a></p></div><div style="margin: 5px 15px 5px 15px;"><h3>California Science Center Names New Wing for Space Shuttle Endeavour</h3><p>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:38:37 -0700<br />When NASA's space shuttle Endeavour lands at the California Science Center in Los Angeles this fall, it will be displayed in a temporary exhibit, and later a new museum facility named for an entrepreneur, explorer and philanthropist.<br /><a href="" style="text-decoration: none;">Read More...</a></p></div><div style="margin: 5px 15px 5px 15px;"><h3>Telescope a 'significant win' for NZ science</h3><p>Fri, 25 May 2012 20:50:51 -0700<br />The world's biggest radio telescope capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life is to be partly built in New Zealand.<br /><a href="" style="text-decoration: none;">Read More...</a></p></div><div style="margin: 5px 15px 5px 15px;"><h3>Small asteroid to buzz Earth on May 28 | Bad Astronomy</h3><p>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:15:45 -0700<br /><br /><a href="" style="text-decoration: none;">Read More...</a></p></div></div><script type="text/javascript">/* <![CDATA[ */var root = '';
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