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Bad Astronomy Blog

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.

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  • 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? ...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 3 comments.

shab123

5 stars Shabnam Sultan

The articles are good.

Posted: January 11th, 2009 | More Reviews From shab123 | Report This Comment

5 stars Gary Ansorge

My favorite blog IS the Bad Astronomer.

Posted: December 30th, 2008 | Report This Comment

eben12

5 stars Ben

Really a nice blog, I've read a couple of articles and like it. Keep up the good work!

Posted: March 31st, 2008 | More Reviews From eben12 | Report This Comment

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