As found on Slashdot yesterday: " A contributor at ScienceBlogs.com has compiled and published a " shockingly long list of systematic attacks on scientific...

In the past I have seen aurora from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont but it is not common there. So I am planning on an Aurora watching vacation to...

Optics: Statistics light the way http://phys.org/news/2013-05-optics-statistics.html Krivitsky and his team trapped a photoreceptor cell from a frog on ...

I have created astronomy programs in Java Script. Azimuth Altitude calculator is also a library of bright stars, nearest stars, and messier objects. Easily...

Solar event on the west limb of the sun appears to have been large enough to produce significant auroral activity on the evening of the 25th for viewers...

Space Weather News for May 24, 2013 http://spaceweather.com CME STRIKE: As expected, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field on May 24th around 1800 UT. It...

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK05 Serial Number: 715 Issue Time: 2013 May 24 1853 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 Threshold Reached: 2013 May...

Space Weather News for May 22, 2013 http://spaceweather.com SIGNIFICANT EXPLOSION: A solar radiation storm is in progress on May 22nd following an...

Space Weather Message Code: WARK05 Serial Number: 838 Issue Time: 2013 May 19 2317 UTC WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected Valid From: 2013...

Space Weather Message Code: WATA30 Serial Number: 106 Issue Time: 2013 May 19 1855 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G2 Predicted Highest...

I don't see the "brag" in this story. But it's nice to see they are reduced to replicating 60 year-old...

I was on Alibaba and I counted at least 10. Most of the scopes look about the same, before being rebranded as Explore Scientific, AstroTech, etc.

There was a solar event on the 17th of May that should lead to Kp index greater than 4 on the 18th through the 20th. Check the short term forecast at...

Space Weather Message Code: WARK05 Serial Number: 837 Issue Time: 2013 May 18 0531 UTC EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected ...

Space Weather Message Code: WATA30 Serial Number: 105 Issue Time: 2013 May 17 2124 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G2 Predicted Highest...

Occam's Razor and the primary conditions of Existence. ==. At first I take the simplest reference frame - - the Euclidean space ( 2D). Now I will put a...

2013 Start May 16, 10PM Equipment: Hardin Optical StarHOC 6" F5 Newtonian 30mm Celestron Ultima: 25x, 2.0 deg 12.5mm Celestron Ultima: 60x, 0.8 deg M68:...

New principle may help explain why nature is quantum http://phys.org/news/2013-05-principle-nature-quantum.html We know that things that follow quantum...

Space Weather News for May 14, 2013 http://spaceweather.com Solar activity is high. During a 24 hour period straddling May 13th and 14th, the sun...

2013 Start May 12, 10PM Equipment: 66mm F6 Astro Tech ED Doublet 30mm Celestron Ultima: 13x, 3.8 deg 18mm Celestron Ultima: 22x, 2.3 deg (b=44x) 12.5mm...