Universe Today
Today's astrophoto is supplied by forum member andyschlei. It's a great photo of M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules. The photo was taken using a C-11 telescope, with a total exposure time of 37.5 minutes.
You've heard about the dust devils on Mars, but they're actually much larger than even tornadoes here on Earth. The Stars My Destination has some diagrams to show us a sense of scale.
Is it a star or a planet?
Centauri Dreams
has a story about a
brown dwarf planet
.
Now this is cool, Carl Zimmer is collecting images of science related tattoos. Show him your ink.
Have you heard? Queen guitarist Brian May
turned in his PhD thesis
in astrophysics... or was it
astrology
? Thanks to
DaveP
for the catch.
Did you know there are 13 telescopes perched atop Mauna Kea? Astroprof
breaks them all down for us
.
Sentient Developments has the transcript of a speech about the Fermi Paradox.
Wondering where the aliens
are gives a few clues about the future of humanity.
