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Here is a short science experiment at home. They guy seems to be showing us how to create a plasma inside our microwaves (please be very careful if you actually want to try it). The video is hilarious though…

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YouTube - Phoenix Descends - a video from Bad Astronomy which I rather enjoyed.

Stephen Colbert interviewed International Space Station resident and Wriststrong supporter, Garret Reisman during his May 8th edition.

I had a question via email asking about Comet Holmes. I thought that by answering it on the blog, maybe others would also have some questions answered. so, thanks to Marycie for her question.

Trailers seem to be the ‘in thing’ these days. There is a (very long) trailer for the BLAST experiment’s movie somewhere out on the internet. Today, this very nice trailer popped up in my Twitter feed from Stuart at Astronomy Blog. It’s for the International Year of Astronomy, also known…

This short film, ‘Das Rad’ is shown from the point of view of two rocks, watching the world go by them in ultra fast-forward. It is interesting to try to view humanity on such a long time scale.

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There’s a video going around the web of a UFO sighting on New Year’s Day in San Diego. As usual everyone says a whole lot about what is wasn’t.

You can find the video here at Daily Motion

I would guess that this is some part of some rocket reentering the atmosphere,…

At NAM I heard a great talk by Gary Fuller on Methanol Masers (a sort of laser created by gas in space). Whilst I find the topic quite interesting its a bit beyond this blog for now. However the telescope used as part of his research is the Parkes 64m telescope…