Dark Energy · 3:00pm Apr 27th, 2019

To one of my past blog posts, Booster Spice gave the random comment:

Dark Energy is Magic?

I can’t remember the context, but I’m taking it as a prompt for this post.

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Mar

20th

2019

Astronomical heads-up · 2:33pm Mar 20th, 2019

Super Worm Full Moon tonight.

Yes, really. It's an old Native American name for the full-moon in Mars, to oversimplify. (Not sure which tribe/s. My source doesn't say, sorry.) Here's a brief source if you wish to learn more. It's the same reason a Januri moon is called a Wolf moon.

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Jul

30th

2016

Particle Physics and the Dark Side · 12:10pm Jul 30th, 2016

Last week saw some exciting news on the experimental search for dark matter. The LUX and PandaX experiments have released some new results. Spoiler alert – they haven’t found it.

Latest results in the hunt for dark matter

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Mar

30th

2015

The Sun, the Moon, and a bit of Family History · 11:25pm Mar 30th, 2015

The sun is four hundred times further away than the moon. It's diameter is four hundred times larger. This means when viewed from our planet, the two bodies appear the same size. Depending on the time of year, sometimes one is slightly larger, sometimes the other, but they are very closely matched.

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Feb

18th

2020

That Went Well · 11:17pm Feb 18th, 2020

Seriously, this exceeded my wildest expectations. Thanks to everyone who helped push Astronomy Lessons into the featured box. I do have a few more ideas for this account (which is, of course, my only one.) Can't guarantee when they'll see the light of day, but this was very encouraging. Read on for a hint at one of those ideas.

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Oct

30th

2020

Stellar Science and a New Story · 6:11pm Oct 30th, 2020

If there weren’t already enough reasons this year to write a story about apocalyptic visions of a world consumed by darkness, the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez gave me the excuse to write something about black holes. It took me a few weeks to finish it, but I am pleased to have got it done ready for Nightmare Night.

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Aug

14th

2019

To Touch the Sun · 10:17pm Aug 14th, 2019

Georg’s latest story: The Golden Alicorn of the Sun is a brilliant surreal scific adventure describing a voyage to touch down on the sun itself. It was inspired by the equally crazy 1953 short story by Ray Bradbury.

EThe Golden Alicorn of the Sun