Tag Archives: Space

The End of Cosmology

By Ian | Published: June 6, 2007
Here in Queen Mary, we hold a discussion group every Wednesday during term time. The paper we are discussing this afternoon is a recent essay by Lawrence Krauss and Robert Scherrer, which has been causing a bit of a stir in cosmology circles, both in the blogosphere and the real world. The essay won 5th [...]
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New Dark Matter evidence

By Ian | Published: May 15, 2007
NASA is holding a press conference today in which new evidence for the existence of dark matter will be presented. There will be an audio feed and graphics on the web as soon as the conference starts. A comment at the Angry Physicist’s blog links to the abstract of the upcoming APJ paper which describes [...]
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Brighten up your day

By Ian | Published: May 8, 2007
It’s not a resource per se, but I probably should have mentioned the Astronomy Picture of the Day, run by NASA, which features a different space related picture every day. As you can see, some of these are amazing works of art in their own right, but with the accompanying blurb you can also learn [...]
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