Herschel and Planck are on their way to L2, and soon I hope we'll be seeing new and exciting discoveries from the science teams involved. purplecthulhu , a friend of ours, and one of the scientists involved, posts his first impressions here . Well done PC!

The bizarre crap that gets accepted for arxiv.org. Once you go to the page, in the top right hand corner there is a link to the pdf file. Evidence #1: http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5321 - check out the references and it also states that pi varies with time. wtf? Evidence #2: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.5377 - check out the figures, that is literally their 'galaxy cluster'

I'm addicted to Amazon.com. It's official. I've just spent the last god knows how long sitting around looking up books on astrophysics. I've been looking at 'Parallel Worlds' by Michio Kaku. The problem is, books like that are nearly impossible to find in St. Helens. The closest thing I found to a book on astrophysics was a GCSE science revision guide. WHAT? I did all that stuff a year ago! I have...

This is not exactly my field, since I'm doing galactic black holes, which are the little siblings of the big ones thought to power AGN ( Active Galactic Nuclei ), but it's an interesting question anyway... including our own and Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, they are also confirmed by other, kinematical, methods. But accretion onto black holes and AGN are a topic for an other entry guys, really :D

...scale continues to rollick down the mountainside. Onwards and downwards it goes until at last it clobbers some poor unsuspecting fool and robs him of his hopes and dreams. Take that, career in astrophysics! No offense to astrophysicists who may happen across this blog (Like that'll happen.) Your job just isn't that important, though you should really get to workin' on those space stations for...

  Methane in Mars January 21, 2009     Mars, the red planet - image from NASA   English version: On Earth, 90 percent of the gas is produced by living beings  There are methane...metano requieren la liberación de los reservorios de gas por debajo de la superficie. Sin embargo, su origen puede ser biológico o no”, escriben los investigadores en Science.   traducido de   Publico

...in width, 50% more dense and turns at a speed nearly 15% higher than previously thought. These data were presented by researchers from the National Radio Observatory and the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Harvard-Smithsonian a meeting of the American Society of Astronomy held in Long Beach, California. in  Lusa image from  NASA It has more weight and be faster, it also has greater gravitational...

...california academy of sciences in san francisco tommorow! the only thing that could make it better is if i got to attend one of the lectures. ah well, they;re only on weekdays, and in a year and half, i'll be getting constant lectures on the same topic (astrophysics--1.5 years is my countdown to college, and hopfully i'll be heading off the dream-school uc berkley and that's what i wanna study)

Как бы, объяснение, выдвинутое одной из теорий, претендующих на "теорию всего", почему произошёл The Big Bang (аналог, в определённом смысле, этой статьи, на русском языке - тут ). Про "теории всего"...какими методами (учитывая то условие, что мы всегда отвечаем на вопрос "каков мир на самом деле?")? Цель науки - ответить на любой вопрос . Иначе - это не наука уже, а какое-то бесполезное упражнение

Originally published at NEQNET: Non-equilibrium Phenomena . Please leave any comments there. Dear friends Before I proceed to the (becoming usual already) list of posts published at NEQNET during...(and one of them - every single day). * Google Books now include magazines Google has just announced that it is going to include all issues of many magazines into the Google Books index.