Glowing Samples

Glowing Samples

Jul 04

We did a cool experiment last Wednesday about the UV properties of various liquids. It yielded this very cool picture which looks like something from science fiction.

The Font Sizes of the Planets

The Font Sizes of the Planets

Jun 24

A nifty graphic showing the sizes of the planets, moons, comets, asteroids and plutoids in relative font sizes. Best viewed very large!

Photo of a Light Wave

Photo of a Light Wave

Jun 21

Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light. It was just 80 attoseconds long. That's 80 billionths of a billionth of a second.

A 6,000 Mile Telescope

A 6,000 Mile Telescope

Jun 11

May 22 marked a live demo of the first four-continent, Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations. "VLBI uses multiple radio telescopes to simultaneously observe the same region of sky. Essentially creating a giant instrument as big as the separation of the dishes. VLBI can generate images of cosmic radio sources with up to 100 times better resolution than images from the best optical...

IYA 2009 Trailer

IYA 2009 Trailer

Apr 17

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 as 2009. This is going be lots of fun and will with any luck also be when I graduate my PhD. The video is...