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Tom's Astronomy Blog

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A blog about observations and news of the night sky.

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  • How Fast Can You Figure This One Out?

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 12:01 in General

    UPDATE:  SOLVED!! Are you ready to pull your brain out of tryptophan-saturated cruise control?  Come on… wake up and let’s play!  You can slump back down into turkey-induced euphoria in a minute.  Meanwhile, you’re due for a bra...

  • Looking Back…

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 16:43 in shuttle

    Do you remember the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program?  We’re coming to the end of the program now, and there are a lot of “last times” for the record books.  Tom brought us that great video of the picture-perfect landing of ...

  • Atlantis is Home

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 09:06 in video, shuttle

    Click here to view the embedded video. Congrats to the crew and welcome home! In case you missed the landing, I managed to record it despite myself ...

  • Here Comes Atlantis

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 07:18 in shuttle

    STS-129 Landing (Atlantis) Current Status (1st opportunity @ KSC): GO Deorbit Burn: 08:37 EST – The go for burn has been given Landing: 09:44 EST NASA TV Stills reload page to refresh image Webcam Image courtesy: NOAA’s Forecast: Today: ...

  • HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 12:14 in General

    Oh behalf of Marian and myself,  I’d like to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving. I know we have many-many readers not in the states, you should know we are very thankful for all of you coming here and reading our stuff. Peace and good thought...

  • Spitzer Sees Brown Dwarfs

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 12:06 in spitzer

    WOW! Click for larger. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Calar Alto Obsv./Caltech Sub. Obsv. Kind of a follow-up to Marian’s post of the other day.  Brown dwarfs are REALLY cool! The Spitzer press release: This image shows two young brown dwar...

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5 stars Richard

The best blog I've found yet on space/astronomy. It covers a wide range of topics without getting too complicated. I'd recommend it to anyone with even only a vague interest in space.

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