This week’s… last week’s… aw, did I miss a week? Anyway, THIS week’s “astrojargon” has a super-fun name, and it’s a pretty fun object as well. I’m talking about blazars. This is a subclass of AGN, the jargon with which I started my series. A blazar is highly variable, very luminous, and quite polarized. (PolarizationContinue reading “AstroJargon of the Week: Blazar”
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Warp speed, Scotty
Last week I took a little break from work to participate in Virtual Drinking Skeptically, which is a fun video chat with cool skeptical people from all over the world. Someone, and I’m sorry because I can’t remember who it was as I was still fiddling with the software and dealing with a slow network…Continue reading “Warp speed, Scotty”