Following on from Tony Travaglia’s impressive image of Venus on New years Eve, here another one on New years Eve, but a little earlier.
An hour before Sunset, actually (you need to click on the image and get an enlarged version to see Venus clearly).
Now, as regular readers of this blog know, I’m obsessed with [...]
This beautiful image of the Moon and Venus on New Years eve comes from Tony Travaglia of Otago, New Zealand. As usual, click on the image to see a larger version (with nice Earth shine). Lets hope 2009 will be a good year for all astrophotographers!
Evening sky as seen facing west in Adelaide at 9:00 pm ACST, December 31. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at similar local times.
2009 is almost upon us, but 2008 has one last beautiful astronomical view for us. The thin crescent Moon will be near Venus, with Mercury and Jupiter close by each [...]
Carnival of Space #85 is now live at Cheap Astronomy. There is tales of the leap second, free astronomy lectures on line, Summer Solistice musings, Astronomy festivals, space exploration prizes, 200 year long space missions, space elevators and much, much more. Put on ypour New Years party hat and head on over.
Happy New Year for 2009! Have a good one all of you! (Inmage is fireworks from the local jetty).
Evening sky as seen facing west in Adelaide at 9:00 pm ACST, December 31. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at similar local times.
2009 is almost upon us, but 2008 has one last beautiful astronomical view for us. The thin crescent Moon will be near Venus, with Mercury and Jupiter close by each [...]
Hey, I got listed in the Top 100 Space and Astronomy Blogs. Okay, so I’m number 82, but I’m there. Actually the numbers don’t mean a heck of a lot as they sort of represent the top 10 in 10 different themes (Bad Astronomy comes in at number 44, but is really number 1 in [...]
You may be familiar with red/(cyan or blue) anaglyphs. These are pictures where a 3D effect is produced by overlapping red and cyan (or blue) images. I have used anaglyphs to make stereo images of Mars and the Sun, for example.
A couple of days ago MiddleOne asked if you could draw 3D pictures. I thought [...]
With 2009 just over the horizon, stargazers around the world are busy preparing for the International Year of Astronomy. A staggering 135 nations are collaborating to bring the Universe closer to Earth. Events and activities will take place over the coming 365 days and beyond, in a spectacle of cosmic proportions.
The International Year of Astronomy [...]
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)
New Image Shows the Power of Visual Remix
The same way a visible-light photographer can choose to shoot black and white instead of color, astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have their choice of what colors to use or not use in their images, as shown in an image of star-forming [...]
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In Part 2 of our year-end wrap up, host Blair Butler takes a look at the best floppies of 2008, including Echo, Jonah Hex, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ex Machina, The Killer and Pax Romana. And that’s not all! You’ll also get taste of Criminal, The Sword, Secret Six, and [...]
The Wall Street Journal was a lengthy writeup on The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3. The book, written by two former IBM employees involved with the creation of the Cell processor, chronicles the chip designs for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It turns [...]
We’ve all yelled at our computers before, it can be very therapeutic, but we never thought it would do anything. Thanks to Brendan Gregg of Sun’s Fishworks team, we know for a FACT yelling at your computer doesn’t do anything helpful, and in fact increases latency.
Brendan wanted to see the effects of vibration on a [...]
Funny or Die found itself quite a niche during the election season with a plethora of targets with which to satire politically. Tons of celebs drop by to participate in their professional big-budget virals, putting them in place to be the Channel 101 of 2008. (And perhaps ‘09.)
However, they do more than just hide the [...]
An airport in Tokyo got foiled by a woman using a most underrated spy tool: tape.
The Japanese spent 45-million dollars installing biometric systems in their airports back in 2007 for immigration purposes.
A South Korean bar hostess, who initially got deported back in ‘07 for being in Japan illegally, entered the country again with a fake [...]
An airport in Tokyo got foiled by a woman using a most underrated spy tool: tape.
The Japanese spent 45-million dollars installing biometric systems in their airports back in 2007 for immigration purposes.
A South Korean bar hostess, who initially got deported back in ‘07 for being in Japan illegally, entered the country again with a fake [...]
Toyota Motor Corp. — maker of the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, the Prius — is quietly developing a car that will run completely on solar energy.
Solar cells from the car will provide some of the power which can be recharged from solar panels on home rooftops.
It appears the Japanese automaker isn’t immune to the global [...]
It’s "Wolverine’s Celebrity Hot-Tub Party!" Well, given the scowl on his face, it seems like Logan might actually be expressing a bit self-consciousness towards bathing with other men. (Not that such a reaction is one I recognize from experience.) Actually, it is a brand new X-Men Origins: Wolverine pic released from Ain’t it Cool News [...]
In a project being conducted by Portsmouth University and funded by Advanced Workplace Associates, big companies are experimenting with Sony’s PlayStation Home service to hold virtual meetings (would this be considered Homework? *snicker*). Using a service like Home enables companies to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions. The participants include Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, [...]
We’ve all yelled at our computers before, it can be very therapeutic, but we never thought it would do anything. Thanks to Brendan Gregg of Sun’s Fishworks team, we know for a FACT yelling at your computer doesn’t do anything helpful, and in fact increases latency.
Brendan wanted to see the effects of vibration on a [...]
