Posts from the ‘astronomy’ category

The Music of the Stars

As the latest in our Terry obsession with Science-Inspired Music, check out Jim Bumgardner’s “Wheel of Stars” Image: European Space Agency/Hubble To make this, I downloaded…

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NASA to Asplode Moon

In what experts are calling “totally sweet”, NASA has announced plans to crash a 2000 kg impactor into the moon, triggering a 28m-diameter crater and a…

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The Girl who Named Pluto

From the New York Times by way of Slashdot: Venetia Phair, who at the age of 11 was responsible for choosing the name “Pluto” for the…

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