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More M95 supernova news: progenitor found! | Bad Astronomy

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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This is very exciting: the star that blew up to form Supernova 2012aw may have been seen in an older Hubble image! First, here’s a lovely shot of the galaxy and supernova: [Click to galactinate.] This is not from Hubble! It’s from Adam Block, a frequent contributor of stunning pictures to this blog, who took it using the 0.8 meter (32″) Schulman Telescope at Mt. Lemmon on March 20. The supernova is… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 23/03/2012 15:33 Number of articles : 2

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Faith and begaurora | Bad Astronomy

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday in the US traditionally celebrated by wearing green and drinking too much. In that spirit, how about a nice, soothing time lapse video of green aurora? This video was made by Mark Ellis (who did the wonderful “My Soul” time lapse video I put up a while back) on a freezing cold night in northern Minnesota after the big March 7 solar foofooraw . Some of the… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 18/03/2012 14:06 Number of articles : 2

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The Sun ate another comet | Bad Astronomy

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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It’s tough to be a comet. You spend most of the time — billions of years, really — out in deep space where it’s cold and dark. Of course, since you’re mostly made of ice, that’s not so bad. After all, the Sun is hot, and if you venture too close… Well, you know what happens then. And such was the fate of Comet SWAN, discovered just a few days ago as it plunged headlong into the seething fires of the… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 16/03/2012 05:32 Number of articles : 3

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The Moon’s history of violence | Bad Astronomy

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is a NASA space probe that’s been orbiting the Moon since June 23, 2009. On March 19 it will mark its 1000th day in orbit! To celebrate, NASA released this cool animation showing the history of the Moon: According to current thinking, the Moon itself formed after a planet roughly the size of Mars slammed into the Earth at a glancing blow. This colossal impact threw… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 14/03/2012 14:30 Number of articles : 2

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GDC: Maxis announces SimCity for PC in 2013

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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During the EA Game Changers event at the 2012 Game Developers Conference, Maxis announced SimCity . It’ll be coming to PC in 2013, which clearly isn’t soon enough. Curvy roads were announced first, much to the applause of the audience. This is the first SimCity in which your cities will exist alongside your friends’. The goal is to make the most “playful and responseful” SimCity yet , and the teaser… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Destructoid Discovery Date : 06/03/2012 00:59 Number of articles : 2

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The Sun unleashes an X5.4 class flare | Bad Astronomy

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Around midnight UTC last night, Active Region 1429 on the Sun exploded with a fairly large flare: rated at class X5.4 , it was among the largest seen in the current cycle. Video of the flare has been created using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory: Yowza. This flare was big enough that it may cause some communication issues and will probably lead to some nice aurorae, but otherwise is no… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 07/03/2012 04:37 Number of articles : 3

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WATCH: Mariah Carey Performs For First Time Since Giving Birth

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Mariah Carey returned to the stage for the first time since giving birth last April to twins Moroccan and Monroe . Check out her performance (and svelte new body) here! Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gossip Cop Discovery Date : 02/03/2012 12:50 Number of articles : 2

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My Late Late Show segment is now online | Bad Astronomy

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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I have no idea how legal this is, but a guy who has lots of videos up from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has posted my segment from February 29 as well: CBS has a copy of it on their site too , but apparently that’s only viewable inside the US. If you want to see those pictures Craig and I were looking at and find out more about them, I’ve written about all three: Picture 1 (Rudolph), Picture… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 02/03/2012 18:27 Number of articles : 2

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Q&BA: The Science of Science Fiction | Bad Astronomy

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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On Sunday, February 26, 2012, I did one of my Q&BA live video chats on Google+ . This one was a little different than usual: it was part of the online convention Dot Con Fest 2012 , celebrating geek life. In honor of that, the topic was “The Science of Science Fiction”. I talked about time travel, faster-than-light travel, Star Trek, Contact, Ringworld, Dyson spheres, artificial gravity, and a lot… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 27/02/2012 02:02 Number of articles : 2

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Moon bites multicolor Sun… from space! | Bad Astronomy

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Earlier today, the Solar Dynamics Observatory had a front seat to a pretty nifty event: a partial eclipse of the Sun. For about 100 minutes, from its orbital viewpoint SDO saw the Moon pass in front of the Sun, partially blocking it. SDO semi-fictional mascot Camilla Corona created a really cool video of the event , using footage from different wavelengths edited together: The false color images show… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 21/02/2012 17:19 Number of articles : 2

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