May 3, 2007

Local fluff is no gas

Posted in Astronomy at 4:00 pm by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours

 

Local fluffSending astronauts up to our nearest star to reignite the Sun, the premise of sci-fi movie Sunshine, is truly the least of our problems when we are currently faced with global climate change, global terrorism, and global economic collapse. Nevertheless, astronomers are concerned about recent findings regarding the hot gas surrounding our star and its stellar neighbours. Put simply they cannot find them.

A team led by Martin Barstow of Leicester …

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Apr 25, 2007

Welcome to Earth 2.0 (beta)

Posted in Astronomy at 1:00 am by David Bradley -- 7 Comments; add yours

 

Earth 2.0No, before you switch off, this is not a Second Life clone, or anything to do with global wikis and blogs. This is the first astronomical post on Sciencebase for quite some time, but because it is not your usual run of the mill supernova announcement, or dark energy revelations, we thought it worthy of a slot. Okay, so what’s all the fuss?

Well, astronomers have finally discovered an Earth-like planet …

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Jan 5, 2007

Pluto is a planet

Posted in Astronomy, Science at 3:00 pm by David Bradley -- 3 Comments; add yours

 

Well, no, it is, and it isn’t. It all depends on your perspective and what you feel about there being more than 20 planets in the Solar System rather than the more usually seen 9.

David Weintraub takes us on a cosmic tour through the history books from Aristotle’s logical fallacies of aether and perfect spheres moving in perfect circles to the discovery of dozens upon dozens of …

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