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Red Moon
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 2:50 pm.
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I’ve been very busy with extra projects at the college the last couple of weeks. However, I try to wind down at bed time by reading a chapter or two from a novel. The latest one has been Red Moon, by Michael Cassutt. Like the last book that I reviewed here, this one is a […]
Interesting book by Joven
Published on 5 Jul 2009 at 10:29 pm.
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A week or so ago, Byrd was at the library with her niece and brought home a book that was on the new rack. It was called The Book of God and Physics, by Enrique Joven. At first, I thought that it might be a book about reconciling science and religion. Instead, though, it is […]
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Jules Verne
Published on 9 Feb 2008 at 2:31 pm.
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One of the first introductions that most people have to science fiction, including myself, is the work of Jules Verne. He was born 180 years ago, yesterday, on February 8, 1828. Though he was originally writing for adults, his work is often seen as children’s fiction. That is a shame, because he really […]
Braille astronomy
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 5:53 pm.
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This is the supernova remnant N49. It is a composite image created from combining images from the Spitzer infrared telescope (the red image), the Hubble space telescope (the white and yellow parts), and the Chandra X-ray telescope (the blue features). It is a wonderful image. It shows the nebula across many wavelengths […]
Seeing in the Dark
Published on 17 Sep 2007 at 2:18 pm.
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Long before I decided to be a physics and astronomy professor, long before I decided to study astronomy, I was fascinated by the sky. When I was in junior high school, my Dad subscribed to Astronomy magazine (which was fairly new at the time). In college, I studied and read about astronomy […]
My new Sky and Telescope is old
Published on 6 Sep 2007 at 7:31 pm.
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I got my new Sky and Telescope magazine in the mail today. When I opened the packaging, my first thought was, “Wow. What did they do to it?” Then, I had a feeling of deja vu. You see, the October 2007 Sky and Telescope that I was holding in my hand […]
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Two books by R. M. Meluch
Published on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:04 am.
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Recently, I read two very interesting books by R. M. Meluch, an author that I had not previously been familiar with. The first of these books was The Myriad. I liked it so much that I read the follow-on book Wolf Star, but that book was independent enough that the books could be read […]
