.Astronomy 5: What's Next?
The .Astronomy 5 Unphoto - Credit: Demitri Muna As the fifth .Astronomy came to a close on Wednesday, I felt as I always do at the end of these meetings:â¦
That's No Supermoon
The periodic mention of a 'supermoon' in the news cycle is starting to annoy me. A supermoon is simply not that much bigger than any other Moon! It's…
More on Men and Women in Astronomy
The response my previous blog post about gender bias took me by surprise. Apparently if you talk about this stuff openly, people have a lot to say. More thanâ¦
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ZooTeach: Using the Zooniverse in the Classroom
[](http://www.zooteach.org) I was at RAL today, as part of a teacher training event run by the National Space Academy, to talk about the Zooniverse and how our…
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Our Stargazing Oxford mini-lectures are online for all to see
During our Stargazing Oxford event on January 12th we had three sets of mini-lectures. These are short, concise talks about astrophysics that anyone should getâ¦
Unproceedings of .Astronomy 4
We’re very pleased to present the Unproceedings of the Fourth .Astronomy Conference (.Astronomy 4), which was held in Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-11 2012. The…
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New direct image of a massive planet around another star
New direct image of a massive planet around another star (arXiv 1211.3744)
Mapping Collaboration in Astronomy
A couple of weeks ago I began to geocode the database of astronomical research I scraped from NASA ADS during .Astronomy 4. This database consists of all theâ¦
Geocoding the Literature
I (or rather my computer) spent most of this morning geocoding the database of astronomical papers that I scraped from NASA ADS a while back. Iâve got about aâ¦
Apollo Astronauts and Solar Radiation
The Apollo astronauts narrowly avoided serious health problems, and even death due to exposure to radiation from the Sun. Hereâs a plot of the approximateâ¦
More Astronomy Data Mining: It's Word-Matrix Time!
I have been exploring the terms used in the astronomical literature (see previous post), and have turned my attention to terms that seem to correlate with eachâ¦
Mining the Astronomical Literature
At .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg, I began hacking on some natural language processing of the astronomical literature as part of my Hack Day project with Sarahâ¦
ITER: A Thermonuclear Reactor That Scientists Will Tidy Up When It's Done
Yesterday I toured the site of ITER, the nuclear fusion plant under construction near Cadarache, France. A multinational collaboration is pumping 150 billionâ¦
.Astronomy 4
In 2008, in the midst of my PhD, I ran a conference called .Astronomy. The idea was to bring together all the other astronomers who were into the web andâ¦