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Southern Stars
[](http://oldblog.atomic-temporary-53335355.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/photo3.jpg)Partly to test out the use of email posting to this blog -â¦
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Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
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The International Astronomical Union
On Monday I will be setting off for Rio de Janeiro for the 2009 International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA). This is a massive…
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Tweprints Update
Back in April I launched a new project called arXiv on Twitter, or just ‘Tweprints’. This website collects the tweets that mention papers from the arXiv…
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.Astronomy 2009 Poster
The posters for the 2009 .Astronomy Conference are being delivered to several places around the world and should be appearing in a department near you soon. Ifâ¦
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Open Science
Yesterday I gave the final departmental astrolunch of the semester, which reviewed Michael Neilsenâs excellent Physics World article âDoing Science in theâ¦
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How I Got Into Astronomy
\UPDATE: Submit an audio version of your story for a podcast. See [this blog post ] How did I get into astronomy? I was born in 1981 so my formative yearsâ¦
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Bienvenue OverTwitter
I have been working on a way to internationalize (is that a word?) my OverTwitter feeds, which predict visible passes of satellites as well as Iridium flares.â¦
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Eyes on the Skies
I have just found myself in possession of a DVD called Eyes on the Skies. I watched a few minutes of it just now and it looks very interesting. It seems thatâ¦
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Herschel and Planck Launch Minute-by-Minute
On Thursday (at 13:12 UT) Arianespace will send into orbit two scientific satellites for the European Space Agency: the Herschel space telescope and the Planckâ¦
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Networking Meteors
I donât normally talk about the daily APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) images from NASA becasue they are so popular and well annotated. Todayâs has reallyâ¦