Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. catdynamics
  2. Classic astronomy: AAS pretty

Classic astronomy: AAS pretty

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user catdynamics
By catdynamics on January 7, 2007.

National Optical Astronomy Observatory shows off some of its photography skills

The Bubble Nebula - NGC7635

Tags
astro

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • To Boomers, An AI Relationship Is Not Cheating
  • 'The Operating Reality Has Changed' - Without Mandates, The Electric Car Market Is Collapsing
  • Berkeley STEM Teacher Peyrin Kao Criticized Israel - Was He Wrong To Get Suspended?
  • Truth Or Consequences
  • Christmas Gift Book Reviews - Clay By Franck Bouysse

Science Codex

  • Who Controls The Chicken Controls The World

More by this author

QRT
October 14, 2017
scienceblogs.com is shutting down moving back to ye olde blog: catdynamics out
A missing piece of the puzzle
January 22, 2017
I've been puzzling over the rationale for some recent events... Exxon has a large contract to develop oil and natural gas resources in the Russia. This can only go forward if sanctions on Russia are lifted, which seems likely to happen in the near future. But, there is too much oil and capacity to…
Glöggt er gests augað
January 22, 2017
The Aspen Art Museum is doing a series of interdisciplinary lectures, titled "Another Look" Another Look Lecture: Gabriel Orozco & Cosmology - so this is a thing. I did one of the lectures. The first one, I gather. It was quite an interesting experience, for me at least. Good fun, riffing on…
Jólasveinar og Jólakettir
December 23, 2016
The origins and history of the Yule Lads with bonus Christmas Cat... Even I did not know that peak Yule Lads was 82! Criminy!
Last minute stocking stuffers for nörds
December 23, 2016
Ok, I confess, I was supposed to get these reviewed before the Holidays, but a Sequence of Unfortunate Events Intervened and I am only part way through these. Anywho, if you need a last second pressie for random acquaintances so disposed, there are a couple of interesting science books out there…

More reads

Islamists have brain leeches!
Susan Blackmore always lectures entertainingly -- really, if you get a chance to hear her, you should -- so I can guess how surprised she was when students claimed offense and walked out on her talk. They were religiously indoctrinated, and simply shut down their brains when the word "evolution" came up, and when she started presenting rational and secular explanations for the existence of…
Going Broad with Terminator Salvation: Can McG Teach Us Something about Artificial Intelligence or Cyborgs?
So I scanned the reviews for director McG's Terminator Salvation at the Washington Post, New York Times, and New York Magazine, and it turns out not unexpectedly that in the words of my hometown Buffalo News' critic Jeff Simon that the film "is a remarkable looking piece of work. And you'll find gobs and gobs of action in it at least half of the time. Bullets fly, so do people. Things blow up…
The Oldest Human Bones, Jebel Irhoud, Morocco
You've heard to story. I'm here to give you a little context. A pretty typical early handaxe, made by a Homo erectus. This was a big flake made from a bigger rock. The big flake was subsequently flaked to make this handaxe. The word "handaxe" can be spelled about nine different ways. But in case you haven't heard the story, this is from the press release which is, so far, the only information…

© 2006-2025 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.