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A shooting star is not a star at all

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/29 07:08 CST

They Might Be Giants present "What Is a Shooting Star?"

One Man's Quest for SETI's Most Promising Signal

Posted by Amir Alexander on 2012/01/27 03:29 CST | 1 comments

A review of Robert H. Gray's "The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial intelligence."

The Quest for the "WOW!": one man's search for SETI's most promising signal

Posted by Amir Alexander on 2012/01/27 11:00 CST

Today's 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Offers a Free, Online Astronomy Class!

Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2012/01/26 09:06 CST

The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast begins this year's effort with an interview with Bruce Betts, who will be starting an online astronomy course. A transcription of the interview is included in this post, as well as a link to the podcast.

Solar flares from Skylab

Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/01/26 05:26 CST

Before automated space observatories like SDO could send pictures and videos of solar phenomenon in real-time, humans had to do it manually, as in the case of the groundbreaking Skylab space station missions, which featured the Apollo Telescope Mount.