Greetings, fellow space nerds and geeks! For the US folks, I hope you have recovered from your turkey coma and are getting back to your regularly scheduled week. We’re getting ready to celebrate the longest night of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere, while you Southern Hemispherers approach summer. However you celebrate the impending…
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On Black Holes, Dragons, and Yarn…
Oh. Uh, hello there. *Unburies self from pile of papers* Glad you are still here, reading this and such. My research took a turn for the busy in the last month (yay!) and now I’m focusing my attention on writing. Writing is… hard. Silly for a blogger to say, but this is like writing for…
Spacey links!
This week’s Carnival of Space is posted on the lovely Spacewriter’s lovely blog. It has the real deal on the so-called “planet Tyche” fooferah, as well as the stunning pass of Stardust by Comet Tempel 1. And…. SPACE BEER! With that, I’m heading out to Florida tomorrow morning with the lovely Genevieve, Gail, and Joleen…
Spacey Carnival Goodness
The Carnival of Space is back with edition #182 at Next Big Future after a month-long hiatus. It includes this lovely flyby of Phobos by Mars Express: And I am back after a week long hiatus during which I was writing LOTS and LOTS for a dissertation year fellowship application. Keep your appendages crossed for…
Listening "Above the Sky"
While I was at the #SDOisGO tweetup, I got to meet a really cool, fun, and sweet musician who drove all the way through the snow down from Jersey to be there. Yes, I am talking about the lovely CraftLass! She has released her new album of folk pop, science and space songs, called “Above…
Telescopes from Space!
Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut currently living aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 23, loves sending back gorgeous pictures of the Earth and Moon via his Twitter feed, astro_soichi. This morning, I woke up to a lovely picture of the Atacama Desert, complete with a from-orbit view of the ALMA OSF: Click a…
Spacey Carnival and the Ladies of Science
This week’s carnival, number 146, is hosted by Simostronomy! I was particularly entertained by the submission from Alice’s AstroInfo, where she compares her own planetarium repair experiences to the last Hubble servicing mission. At the time of the STS-125 mission, I was in Green Bank climbing around on our antenna groundscreens again, doing repair work,…
AstroJargon of the Week: Parsec
This week I thought I’d scale back from such a rich topic as AGN and tell you a little bit about the parsec. (In this case, I do not mean the podcast awards!) A parsec is a measure of distance. But, you are thinking, Nicole, don’t you astronomers already use the light year as a…
And the winner is… SPACE!
The ever-fabulous Ian O’Neill hosts this week’s Carnival of Space #144. There are lots of great astronomical highlights from this week, but I’m particularly in love with this gorgeous multi-wavelength image of NGC 1068: via Chandra, Hubble, and the Very Large Array Check it all out at Discovery News this week!
I love the Carnival of Space
The Carnival of Space #143 is up at Next Big Future! Get it? I love… 143? When I was in high school, before cell phones were popular, everyone (but me) had a beeper. We used silly little codes to each other… and 143 meant “I love you.” And my boyfriend’s name at the time was…
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