http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:34:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-127474 Ooooo, pretty! And a little scary. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:47:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-127474 [...] that cluster sounds familiar, then you are a major BA geek: I’ve written about it in the past here and here. It’s a beefy cluster: if you added up all the stars, they would mass 100,000 times [...] […] that cluster sounds familiar, then you are a major BA geek: I’ve written about it in the past here and here. It’s a beefy cluster: if you added up all the stars, they would mass 100,000 times […]

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4243 webmaster Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:27:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4243 I can’t believe some people believes in that… But they’re happy when someone tells them they’ll be happy today because Venus is somewhere in some constellation… Well, suits them. I can’t believe some people believes in that… But they’re happy when someone tells them they’ll be happy today because Venus is somewhere in some constellation… Well, suits them.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4242 Irishman Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:28:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4242 In the Westerlund 1 description, check your numbers. You have "Its light is dimmed by a factor of 100,00 ". You either have a misplaced comma or a missing zero. In the Westerlund 1 description, check your numbers. You have “Its light is dimmed by a factor of 100,00 “. You either have a misplaced comma or a missing zero.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4241 Jorge Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:03:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4241 That is what fasinated me by space, you never know what you may find in your back yard, let along milians of lightyears away That is what fasinated me by space, you never know what you may find in your back yard, let along milians of lightyears away

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4239 The Bad Astronomer Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:24:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4239 The beauty here is that with infrared telescopes, we *can* see into the disk, and with radio and gamma rays, we can see through it! The image of that clusters shows this! So keep watching those websites. They'll have more as time goes on. The beauty here is that with infrared telescopes, we *can* see into the disk, and with radio and gamma rays, we can see through it! The image of that clusters shows this! So keep watching those websites. They’ll have more as time goes on.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4240 Michelle Rochon Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:39:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/25/astro-round-up/#comment-4240 Our own galaxy hides up so many things from us that I'm frustrated. It also makes me wonder what things we would see with our eyes on the OTHER side of the disk? Too bad I won't live that long! Our own galaxy hides up so many things from us that I’m frustrated. It also makes me wonder what things we would see with our eyes on the OTHER side of the disk? Too bad I won’t live that long!

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