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Bad Astronomy Blog

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog

An astronomer's personal view on life, the Universe, and everything. Informative, funny, skeptical, and topical, it's mostly cool astronomy stuff and science in general, with a definite slant against antiscience and uncritical thinking.

Added on: May 6th, 2005
Country: United States
Language: English

Listed in: Science Humor
Tags: science astronomy cool stuff skepticism NASA antiscience

Recent Posts

Midwest megameteor makes media madness

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 09:00 in astronomy, cool stuff, fireball, meteor, deathfromtheskies!

By now you’ve probably heard of the extremely bright fireball over Utah last Wednesday, proving once again that really cool stuff happens when I’m on travel and can’t write about it. Worse, it was seen from Denver, which means I mig...
LHC: Beams back in business!

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 16:01 in science, cool stuff, cern, lhc

Yesterday, the Large Hadron Collider once again had a beam of protons whizzing around its 27 km-long circumference! After a series of setbacks — some devastating, holding up the world’s largest scientific experiment for many months —...
Cassini buzzes Enceladus once again

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 12:29 in astronomy, space, pretty pictures, saturn, cassini, enceladus

On November 20, 2009, the Cassini spacecraft buzzed the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus once again, returning dramatic images of its water geysers and wrinkled, ridged surface: That raw image (which means it has not been processed to re...
Exquisite rubble

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 09:00 in space, pretty pictures, moon, lro

I know, I usually wax lyrical and scientific over this picture or that returned from various astronomical and space observatories. But honestly, I don’t have a whole lot to say about this particular image, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
Sirius Stargazing

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 15:00 in astronomy, youtube, amateur astronomy, sirius stargazing

I have few regrets in life, but if there’s one, it’s that I didn’t have access to all this amazing technology when I was a teenager and figuring out just how I was going to tackle my love for astronomy. How I would have loved podcas...
NASA wants your junk

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 12:31 in humor, NASA

While driving in Los Angeles recently, I was surprised to see this out my passenger window: Wow. I know NASA’s budget is small, but this seems a bit unnecessary. I wonder if Harry Broderick was driving? ...