by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Inspiration
Three themes permeated many of the sessions at the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, MO June 1-5, 2008. The International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009 is going to be a BIG, world wide event. The number of excellent astronomy related web...
by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Inspiration
In 1301, the medieval Italian painter Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), observed Halley’s comet, which he memorialized as the star of Bethlehem in his painting, Adoration of the Magi. Almost 700 years later, he was honored by having his name carried by the first space...
by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Inspiration
David Letterman made famous his “Top Ten” List. Richard Talcott, a senior editor of Astronomy Magazine created a Top Ten List that Letterman would probably never put on his show. To highlight the 35th anniversary of the magazine, he came up with the “Top Ten...
by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Inspiration
“They are like a hot lump of coal slowly cooling”, Ashley Yeager describes white dwarfs in her piece, “Dead – But Not Duds” in Science News, Oct 11, 2008. White dwarfs, the dead corpse of a star with a mass less than about 1.4 solar masses, create in their final...
by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Inspiration
Figure 1. Measured (dots) and calculated (line) orbital position of S0-2 based on 16 years of observations. The orbit matches Kepler’s law perfectly. From Ghez, et.al., Astrophysical Journal, Aug 21, 2008. Peer toward the Milky Way’s center in visible light, and you...
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