This week on JPL/Nasa, there is a pretty interesting article on THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND CIB with photos taken by the Herschel Space Observatory- this intrgiues me very much, as it is the infrared version of CMB – and well worth a read. Herschel Measures Dark Matter for Star-Forming Galaxies A region of the sky …
If you are interested in Exoplanets – then there are TWO good PDFs for free download from Nature this week – they are both must read documents: Exoplanets on the cheap The search for planets outside our Solar System will always be pricey. But creative solutions are proving that it no longer has to break …
Many of the content items that were available are not longer available. All posts in this blog from now on will be written by Estelle, and not by other authors.
There is so much great and exciting news around at the moment, and most of you have probably read some of the articles of the most distant object, well for those who haven’t I’ve been reading furiously about many of these latest developments, and have a list of articles and papers and photo that you …
It interesting to know that we may soon actually have observational evidence of Black Holes, but viewing the black hole within our Milky Way galaxy. Video simulation of detection of Black Holes: http://bcove.me/ge3hzdgt The concept is better revealed in this video: http://bcove.me/9i9xve43
2011 looks like a great year for Astronomical and Cosmological research as another important detector (dare I say telescope – for want of a better word) came online: The construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was completed at the South Pole in Antarctica on December 18, 2010. This scientific milestone marks completion of the world’s …
There has been a few really interesting things happening lately and I wanted to share them with you all. If you have already read about them then that’s even better – but with studies and work is sometimes hard to keep up with everything, here are a couple of news items that I found interesting. …
Two significant events happened recently and if you aren’t presently aware of them; then, I’d like ot share them with you here: 1) The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has seen first light and is fully operational. and worth reading about as it one of the new VLTs around. While the The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer …
A couple of interesting articles appeared on New Scientist in past weeks, you will probably need a subscription to read them, so I’ve posted the main theme here: __________________________________ The scientist pope who lit up the Dark Ages 22 December 2010 by James Hannam – Magazine issue 2792. AROUND AD 1000, Gerbert of Aurillac served …
Big news surrounding the exhumation of the body of Tycho Brahe – was he indeed poisioned? Read both articles for the full details of what is happening right now: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3864/16th-century-astronomer-exhumed-solve-death And even better read this one too: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/44330 Interesting… especially in the scope of this course.