Dark Energy with Dr. Michael Turner
Aaron and I got a chance to interview Dr. Michael Turner , the cosmologist who coined the term “dark energy”.
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Changes in Titan’s Surface Attributed to Seasonal Rainstorms !
Latest news from your favorite ringed planet. –Ben =================================================== March 17, 2011 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today, members of the Cassini Imaging Team are releasing new discoveries, published earlier in the journal /Geophysical Research Letters/ and today in the journal /Science/, showing surface changes in the equatorial regions of Titan attributed to methane rainstorms. The occurrence of these rainstorms now, a year and a half after northern spring arrived at Saturn and on Titan, shows that the weather on Titan and the changes wrought on its surface are affected by the changing seasons
MESSENGER successfully entered orbit at Mercury!
Welcome to Mercury. Put on your Nomex jacket and stay awhile. –Ben MESSENGER successfully entered orbit at Mercury! Mar
The Drama of Starbirth
nice eye candy. –Ben The Drama of Starbirth A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope gives a close-up view of the dramatic effects new-born stars have on the gas and dust from which they formed. Although the stars themselves are not visible, material they have ejected is colliding with the surrounding gas and dust clouds and creating a surreal landscape of glowing arcs, blobs and streaks.
