Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply wrote: I don't recall the reference, but I recall reading a paper in the Astronomical Journal dated sometime...

Several months back, I mentioned the commencement of a new freely-available lecture series, the Evolutionary Biology Lecture of the Week, on the list. Because...

] I.Vecchi wrote: Browsing NASA's "Multimedia Space Educator Handbook" I found this. "Pluto is now known to be far too small to...

Given the recent comments of lack of discussion here I want to raise some issues which I believe are not sufficiently recognised in the (so-called) standard...

Hi people I have just finished Lisa Randall's "Warped Passages, Unraveling the mysteries of the universe's hidden dimensions" and it is a wonderful book. It...

I would like to know how the density of the three new extrasolar planets around (HD 69830) was determined. The press release mentioned that they thought the...

Shortly after the first release of the WMAP data three years ago, I made already the point that the angular power spectrum of the CMB fluctuations is at least...

Greetings. I hope my question is appropriate for this group. I was thinking of installing AIPS++. However, the version of Linux I am running (Xandros Standard...

A new paper is out, astro-ph/0603803, "Kinematics of the Narrow-Line Region in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy" by Das, Crenshaw, Deo & Kraemer. They use HST STIS on the...

Could a primordial black hole of around a solar mass exist undetected near our solar system. By near I mean somewhere between ort cloud and nearest...

I have suggested on my web page http://www.plasmaphysics.org.uk/research/redshift.htm that the Hubble redshift of galaxies is due to the 'stretching' of the...

Hi, I find this rocks in the center very odd: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/807/2P198005445EFFAR00P2407R1M1.JPG do somebody expert in...

A query based on pretty old reports of Jupiter's atmospheric lightning being ~ 1000 times more energetic than terrestrial strokes: Is it possible for Jovian...

(referenced papers can be found on astro-ph) Zhao et al. (2006) tested lensing in Beckenstein's relativistic MOND (TeVeS), and conclude that lensing may be a...

canopus56 wrote: I loosely understand the answer depends on the cosmological model you apply based from the omega diagram. For discussion, let's assume...

It has occurred to me that whereas galaxies are often found in binary and higher multiple bound systems, globular clusters appear to go it alone when it comes...

On Paul Marmet's web site, just past half way down the page http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/BIGBANG/Bigbang.html there is a figure 3 and its description state...

P.S. - Are there any other major surveys, e.g. galaxy cluster surveys, that reach beyond the Zwicky and 2dF GRS wedges that it would be appropriate...

I was reading over: Schaefer, B.E. Jan. 11, 2006. The Hubble Diagram to z = 6.3 with Swift Gamma Ray Bursts. (Abstract) A.A.S. Meeting...

Brian Tung wrote: snip all I would like to expand this thread a bit. (I have made an exception to my usual rule against cross-group posting and expanded...