Tag: astronomy

Why “Critical Density” Could Determine the Fate of the Universe

http://io9.com/why-critical-density-could-determine-the-fate-of-the-1550168923?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

I don’t remember seeing Esther (the author of the above article) at last Saturday evening’s ASKC meeting and Dr. Feldman’s lecture on Dark Matter and Dark Energy … but I’ve seen that graph very recently.

Hmmm…

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Dr. Feldman and the Definition of Cosmology

Professor Hume A. Feldman, Ph.D.

Dramatic photos of Venus disappearing behind the moon | Human World | EarthSky

http://earthsky.org/space/dramatic-photos-of-venus-disappearing-behind-the-moon#.Uw3M6MFME0M

Some day I hope to be in the right place at the right time to see an occultation like this.  If only I’d been visiting India this week.

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Video: The Problem with Facebook

Thanks to one of my astronomy Facebook friends, I watched a video on Faster Than Light Travel (don’t get your hopes up) by Veritasium (an element of truth), which led me to this excellent post on the Problem with Facebook:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g?rel=0]

We might be destroying the universe just by looking at it

http://io9.com/we-might-be-destroying-the-universe-just-by-looking-at-1514652112?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Weird on more than one level.

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