Space Fan News #15: Don't Lick Brown Things; Difference Between Brown Dwarf & Gas Giant
26th Mar, 2011
Space Bound #2 will be out on Sunday! Got a heads up from space fan paleosmoker about a discovery of the coolest brown dwarf ever found. Also discuss the difference between a gas giant and a brown dwarf. Here are the links referred to in the vid
Space Fan News #14 (Super Moon Edition): NASA goes to Mercury; Ducks on Mars
19th Mar, 2011
NASA finally made it to Mercury. Also, talking about the stupid Super Moon idiocy. Here's NASA's release: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html Here's Bad Astronomy's debunking post: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastr
Space Fan News #13: Before the Big Bang?
13th Mar, 2011
Back from vacation and wanted to talk about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Back in November, a group announced that they have possibly detected gravity waves from interacting black hole in a universe prior to ours. Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/
Space Fan News #12: Something Strange About Gravity
5th Mar, 2011
Don't forgets your tweets: http://twitter.com/DeepAstronomy A couple of weeks ago a paper came out that supported the MOND theory for why the universe is accelerating. Here's the announcement: http://bit.ly/gFSz4Q Here's the paper: http://arxiv.o
How Do We Know Black Holes Exist?
4th Mar, 2011
http://deepastronomy.com is getting more stuff all the time, please remember to check it out! It's a natural question to ask how we know black holes exist if we can't see them. This video step through the history of thinking on the idea of black ho
Space Fan News #11: The Beginning of the End of an Era
27th Feb, 2011
You can haz astronomy tweets: http://twitter.com/DeepAstronomy This week, I wax rhapsodic about the final launch of Discovery, and discuss it's relevance to the Hubble.