AstronomyTeacher

News articles and posts about astronomy and astronomy education

Monday, July 31, 2006

Stardust@Home

posted by Jeff Adkins # 8:19 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Cassini's Radar spots lakes on Titan

Titan has lakes! We suspected it from earlier photographs, but this series of photos confirms it. The only other known object in the solar system with lakes.
Cassini-Huygens Home

posted by Jeff Adkins # 8:06 AM 0 comments

"Folk Astronomy"

The concept of "folk astronomy" takes as much time to dispel as teaching how real astronomy works.

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Folk Science -- Why our intuitions about how the world works are often wrong

posted by Jeff Adkins # 7:47 AM 0 comments

Monday, July 24, 2006

Global Warming-- Signed, Sealed, Delivered

posted by Jeff Adkins # 10:59 PM 0 comments

Sunday, July 23, 2006

SPACE.com Video Player: Figure the Odds of ET

A video clip made by the Starry Night folks that explains how the Drake Equation is used to estimate the odds of alien life in the galaxy.

SPACE.com Video Player: Figure the Odds of ET

posted by Jeff Adkins # 8:10 AM 0 comments

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Office of Science - Decades of Discovery

A cool list of important scientific discoveries. All linked.
Office of Science - Decades of Discovery

posted by Jeff Adkins # 9:33 PM 0 comments

Office of Science - Decades of Discovery

A cool list of important scientific discoveries. All linked.
Office of Science - Decades of Discovery

posted by Jeff Adkins # 9:32 PM 0 comments

Archives

08/01/2004 - 09/01/2004 10/01/2004 - 11/01/2004 11/01/2004 - 12/01/2004 12/01/2004 - 01/01/2005 01/01/2005 - 02/01/2005 02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005 03/01/2005 - 04/01/2005 04/01/2005 - 05/01/2005 05/01/2005 - 06/01/2005 06/01/2005 - 07/01/2005 07/01/2005 - 08/01/2005 08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005 09/01/2005 - 10/01/2005 10/01/2005 - 11/01/2005 11/01/2005 - 12/01/2005 12/01/2005 - 01/01/2006 01/01/2006 - 02/01/2006 02/01/2006 - 03/01/2006 03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006 04/01/2006 - 05/01/2006 05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006 06/01/2006 - 07/01/2006 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006 09/01/2006 - 10/01/2006 10/01/2006 - 11/01/2006 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006 12/01/2006 - 01/01/2007 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007 03/01/2007 - 04/01/2007 04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007 05/01/2007 - 06/01/2007 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007 08/01/2007 - 09/01/2007 11/01/2007 - 12/01/2007 12/01/2007 - 01/01/2008 01/01/2008 - 02/01/2008 02/01/2008 - 03/01/2008