Astronomers
Google to digitize old books from Rome, Florence
ROME (AP) ??? Google said Wednesday it will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence, including works by astronomer Galileo Galilei, in what's being...
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UN, Iridium rush satellite links to quake-hit Chile
IDG News Service - The United Nations (UN) agency responsible for IT and telecommunications has delivered 25 satellite phones to Chile to help restore communication links vital to bringing...
Small wonder that Stephen Hawking famously said that such a theory would be "the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we should know the mind of God".
Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything New Scientist - Latest Headlines | 1 week ago
Best science on TV: Comedy Central's Stewart, Colbert?
...and ABC's Diane Sawyer. ON THE WEB: See YouTube video of Williams, Tyson, Stewart and Colbert from NOVA Tyson, a television-appearance pro, has visited Jay Leno's Tonight Show...
Sharon Glassman: NOVA's Pluto Files (With Neil deGrasse Tyson) Will Make You a Better American
...from one corner to the other," he says. As a child, Dr. Tyson wondered how many scientists had become U.S. presidents. He paged through his World Book encyclopedia and discovered:
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First contact
...telescope in West Virginia towards Tau Ceti, a nearby star similar to our own sun. His aim was simple: he wanted to pick up transmissions from any alien civilisations that might be...
A new 3-D map of the interstellar gas within 300 parsecs from the sun
...J.-L. Vergely, presents new, high spectral resolution measurements of the calcium (CaII) K line (at 3933 A) and the sodium doublet (at 5889 and 5895 A). These absorption lines have long...
Good riddance, man on the moon
...Jeff Bezos want to fritter away millions playing Buzz Lightyear - let them! NASA does a lot of spooky military work they can't discuss, so that won't be a talking point for them. Space...
Hubble sees Pluto changing color, ice sheet cover
...Pluto. "It's a little bit of a surprise to see these changes happening so big and so fast," said astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Buie said...
Best View Yet of Pluto Shows Rapidly Changing Surface
After more than four years of processing on 20 hand-built computers, the best views ever captured of Pluto are now available. Working from 384 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope...
Pluto images show a dynamic world
...number of sites. "These [images] have been used already to help plan the encounter," said astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who led the...
Pluto's White, Dark-Orange and Charcoal-Black Terrain Captured by NASA's Hubble
...transitions to polar summer quickly in the northern hemisphere, because Pluto is moving faster along its orbit when it is closer to the sun. Ground-based observations, taken in 1988 and...
