Andrew Grey doesn’t fit most people’s idea of an astronomer. He works in a car repair shop, not in a lab or university, yet the Australian repairman discovered a star system hiding in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Mr. Grey is one of millions of citizen scientists helping ...
15. A thorough investigation of the time series of spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry within the first year of the SN explosion suggests that the SN ejecta expands into a dense torus of disk-like CSM20. Such a configuration is in good agreement with the picture depicted by the spectroscopic an...
Gauss, who as well as being one of the most brilliant and prolific mathematicians and physicists of all time, never turned down an opportunity to experiment, in 1833 wrote to the astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers: “I don’t remember any mention to you about an astonishing piece of ...
I’m 40 years old, and I’ve been in contact (more or less) with the Internet as it’s grown from inchoate network in the early 1990s to the Thing that it is today. This means that I’ve been aware, and to some extent Rubbernecked, the blogging movement as it has developed. This...
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It was a tool, and as 2001 depicts in the first part of the movie, tools can be used to help humanity or as a weapon in humanity’s wars. In Profiles of the Future, published in 1962, Arthur Clarke wrote: The old idea that Man invented tools is… a misleading half-truth; it ...
Barry Malzberg touched on it briefly in his blog post. In a nut shell, the Shaver Mystery was the “UFO phenomenon” before the actual UFO phenomenon. www.amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/02/the-art-of-the-shaver-mystery *** DELICATE CONNECTIONS David Darling, an astronomer and graduate of Shef...
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