Archives for September 2008
Carnival of Space #69
Published on 5 Sep 2008 at 11:44 pm.
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The sixty ninth Carnival of Space is now live over at Irene Klotz’s Free Space site. She’s got this edition alphabetized. Go check it out.
For those of you who just stumbled over my site and don’t know, a blog carnival is a collection of good blog posts collected from a variety of authors and blogs […]
An Unspotted Sun?
Published on 3 Sep 2008 at 2:35 pm.
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Just for fun, Miki, from Rampup Solutions, sent me a link to this astronomy news spoof. I found it hilarious. However, it gives me something to blog about. This past month continued the unusually long period of extremely low solar activity that I had written about nearly two months ago.
The Sun […]
GLAST = Fermi
Published on 2 Sep 2008 at 4:42 pm.
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Several months ago, I wrote about NASA’s plans to rename GLAST (the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope). Last week, NASA announced that the new name for this mission is to be the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who became well known in the 1920s and 1930s […]
Hanna and Hubble
Published on 1 Sep 2008 at 6:31 pm.
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STS-125 is scheduled to launch October 8 on the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. That is a delay from a September launch that had originally been planned. But, in order to launch, the Space Shuttle Atlantis has to be rolled out to the launch pad. That should be happening […]
