Writing tagged: ‘astronomy’
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Newsletter No. 19: ‘Ruinous propensity’
Darwin’s 215th birthday • moths to the flame • Darwin’s personal library • caterpillars and blue tits • more moths • Hell chickens • the birth of the moon • navel gazing • book recommendations • and more…
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Cosmological conversation with my dad
How far away is the sun?
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Two triumphant predictions for science
In which one of Darwin’s correspondents compares Darwin’s famous moth prediction with the prediction of the orbit of the planet Neptune.
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400 years of telescopic astronomy
400 years ago today, on 26th July, 1609, the early English scientist Thomas Harriot pointed his new-fangled telescope at the moon and made a drawing.
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Life on Mars!
‘Popular Scientific Recreations, Profusely Illustrated’ on the subject of Mars.
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In a word…
Amazing space photo.
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Chalk another one up for science
Science explains the Perseid meteor shower.
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The right kinds of relics
What is it with keeping the remains of dead people as relics?
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Lunar Eclipse
Against all the odds, the March Pennine skies were crystal clear during last night’s total lunar eclipse.