Splashdown

Once the solid rocket boosters leave the space shuttle, they are pretty much forgotten about by most people. Until now. flickr user nasa1fan has posted a bunch of photos of the solid rocket boosters during their recovery at sea. Very cool lookin’.

(picked this up from Dick’s Rocket Dungeon)

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Podcast: Simo-Slacker Interviews Pt. II

In Part I we presented 2 interviews from Mike Simonsen of Simostronomy (and the AAVSO) from a conference he attended recently, Wild Stars in the Old West II . Mike has blogged extensively about this.

In this episode we present 3 new interviews with professional astronomers about cataclysmic variable stars. Christopher Tout, Paula Szkody and Boris Gaensicke discuss their work and ideas from the conference. It can be heavy stuff at times but gives a fascinating insight into the world of stellar astrophysics.

Many thanks to Mike Simonsen for bringing us these interviews! He is a fun guy to talk to. We’ll be hearing more from Mike!

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Some guy says we are the #5 astronomy blog

This just in, some guy wrote a web page, which is a way to present content on the Internet, a world-wide network of computers networks, and on that web page he made a list of the “Top 10 Astronomy and Space Weblogs“.

I have to say, we are in good company! On the list in positions 1 through 4 are Phil “Please Digg This” Plait, Alan Boyle of Cosmic Log, who seems like a very smart guy despite the fact that he is an actual journalist, Astronomy Blog, manned by the Brit, Stuart, who is a nice fellow who speaks the Queen’s English and NASA Watch, a web site which does not have any connection whatsoever with, endorsement by, or authorization from, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration nor does any product or service being offered or made available to the public have the authorization, support, sponsorship, or endorsement of, or the development, use, or manufacture by or on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

And then, gloriously, the heaven’s part, angels sing, John Williams conducts and Slacker Astronomy is listed as #5! By this one guy! Sah-weet!

So thank you, some guy. You are tops #5 in our book, too.