How a Tiny Magnet Could Produce a Force Field Big Enough To Protect a Space Ship
How a Tiny Magnet Could Produce a Force Field Big Enough To Protect a Space Ship. Interesting stuff with potentially exciting implications.
Enceladus is erupting! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
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!
Hubble captures picture of asteroid collision! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
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 Hubble spies the collision of two asteroids.
Astronomical Conjunction
Did anyone get to observe the conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter last night? We were mildly overcast here in Indiana, but in some ways that actually worked in our favor since the clouds blotted out all the stars and let only the light from those three heavenly bodies through. I kept wishing I [...]
Comet McNaught
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 hampered by consistent cloud cover. And the weather report for the [...]
Full Moon
“In the absence of the sun, I’ll take a full moon.” It’s funny how attuned a person can get to the cycles of the moon. I’d never really paid all that much attention to what phase the moon was in – I never had much cause to. It took buying land and actually moving our [...]
Bits of Burning Rock
I hadn’t realized until my wife and I moved back out to the country just how many shooting stars fall in a given night. Nearly every time I am outside, in the dark, to feed the horses, whether it be early morning or after sunset, I usually see at least one or two. ((My wife [...]
