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NASA | André Kuipers | You know what? Our planet is awesome.[Click to thalassenate.]This photo was taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers, on board the International Space Station. Fru.
See the rest here: The Sun glints off a water world | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
The Board of the African Renaissance Fund has approved a R120-million funding for the initial work to construct a network of radio telescopes in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) African partner countries. The South African …
Originally posted here: Boost for African astronomy « The best from EE Publishers…
Antiscience | creationism | In late 2008, the Louisiana government passed a bill into law that allowed teachers to teach creationism in the classroom. Then the Louisiana Board of Elementar.
See original here: Louisiana fights back against creationist legislators | Bad Astronomy …
Astronomy Curriculums for 8 yr old? What's out there? Parents' Forum K-8 Curriculum Board.
More: Astronomy Curriculums for 8 yr old? What's out there? – The Well …
Yesterday, Alan Stern, the mission's project scientist, called me and asked Astronomy magazine to step on board as a partner in the effort. Now, many of you know the folks here at Astronomy are Pluto backers. I was a friend of …
Read the original here: Let's get ourselves a New Horizons-Pluto stamp! – Astronomy …
Astronomy | Earth | Thanks to astronaut Ron Garan on Google+, I was alerted to some amazing footage of the Moon setting as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Stati.
Continued here: Amazing moonset video taken from space! | Bad Astronomy …
Cool stuff | acceleration | This is one of the coolest videos I've seen in a while: during a routine reboost of the International Space Station to a higher orbit, the astronauts on board s.
View original post here: Space station gives physics a boost | Bad Astronomy | Discover …
When we left off in the earlier blog, I had exposed for readers one of the worst ever astronomy questions conceived by an examination board. I suggested then that this sort of specious question paved the way for the …
Read more: Brane Space: Further Ruminations on the Demise of CXC Astronomy