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Todd Timberlake author of Finding our Place in the Solar System discusses the key topic in his new book: The Copernican Revolution. "The Earth really does go around the Sun, but for a long time it was entirely reasonable to believe otherwise. This helps us to see why scientific controversies exist, but also how they are eventually resolved"
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This blogpost advertises our new Cambridge University Press book Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas [1], by Goedbloed, Keppens and Poedts. We encourage all colleagues to send us feedback and criticisms, for possible future editions. Comments on the blog itself may be directed to its author, R. Keppens [email protected].
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This picture of the Andromeda Galaxy is not from a major observatory. It is not even an exceptional example of amateur work. It is a routine picture taken in my driveway in a medium-sized town with a telescope 6.5 cm (2.6 inches) in diameter. For a long time (about 1970-2000), amateur and professional astronomy were […]
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William Nellis author of Ultracondensed Matter by Dynamic Compression, 2017, discusses how the discoveries of NASA's Voyager Mission changed what we thought we knew about the magnetic fields of gas giants Neptune and Uranus.
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For most of us, 1917 reminds us a year in the terrible World War I. While European scientists were on the battlefront, in America, their colleagues away from the frontlines were pursuing their research. For astronomy, 1917 was a year of reckoning. 1917 when astronomers got a grasp that our Milky Way was one of […]
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Jean-René Roy author of Unveiling Galaxies discusses the importance of images in astronomical discovery and understanding.
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The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) both place great emphasis on public engagement, giving back to the taxpayers who support space exploration. When NASA sent out a bulletin asking astronomers to speak to groups during the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017, I signed up. […]
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“…a time would come, when men should be able to stretch out their eyes…by which means they should be able to discover…every nebulous star appearing as if it were the firmament of some other world at an incomprehensible distance…that they should see planets like our Earth”- Inaugural lecture of Christopher Wren (aged 25) as Professor […]
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