by Jim Stitzel | Jul 29, 2010 | Asides
How a Tiny Magnet Could Produce a Force Field Big Enough To Protect a Space Ship. Interesting stuff with potentially exciting implications.
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 23, 2010 | Asides
Enceladus is erupting! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine. Click through if you want to see some astonishing and gorgeous views of Enceladus (a moon of Saturn) in all its geyser-erupting glory!
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 2, 2010 | Asides
Hubble captures picture of asteroid collision! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine. I absolutely love astronomy. It is by far my favorite branch of the sciences — and Phil never has any shortage of really cool stuff to report on. Check out what happens when...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 2, 2008 | Science
Did anyone get to observe the “conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter”:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/12/01/venus-the-moon-and-jupiter/ “last...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 12, 2007 | Science
Looks like yet another cool astronomical phenonmenon is going to pass me by before I’ll get to see it. I’ve been checking the horizon every night for the past several days in hopes of being able to see Comet McNaught, but unfortunately, I’ve been...
