Welcome to the 554th Carnival of Space! The carnival is a roaming weekly news roundup that brings together the best online writing on space science and astronomy. Every week, it finds a new host who curates the articles and publishes them on their own website or blog. This week, it’s my turn again! Before you scroll down to the meat below, a quick promotion for the Urban Astronomer Podcast: The most recent episode went live a few days ago, and … Continue reading →
Welcome to the 27th episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast! This is a special episode where I break from tradition and try for something completely new: Unscripted content, delivered solo, with just a few notes to guide me! In the first segment, I explain how tides work, and in the second I muse on what makes Flat Earther’s reject established scientific knowledge. I recently got back from the 2018 Symposium of the South African Astronomical Society, where I plugged this … Continue reading →
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This is the 26th episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, where we get back to our original focus of interviewing people involved in South African astronomy. Whether they’re professional or amateur, South African, or merely visiting to do astronomy under our clear skies through our world-class observatories, we want to talk to them. In this episode, we chat with Neville Young. Neville Young Neville has been a member of the Pretoria center of the Astronomical Society of South Africa since the … Continue reading →
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Welcome to the 25th episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast, which is also the 1st episode of 2018. Happy New Year! Over the past few episodes, I’ve been running a series of public lectures that I recorded at ScopeX 2017. ScopeX is an annual telescope and astronomy expo held every year at the Military History museum in Johannesburg. This is the last lecture in the series, on the topic of the Apollo Program. Clyde Foster was the speaker. News Next … Continue reading →
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Welcome back to the Carnival of Space, where space science and astronomy writers from around the world share their best writing of the past week. Today’s contributions: Universe Today A Black Hole is Pushing the Stars Around in this Globular Cluster Just Like Earth, Titan Has a “Sea Level” for its Lakes and Seas Researchers Develop a New Low Cost/Low Weight Method of Searching for Life on Mars Cosmoquest We Can Use Your Help – Tell Us What You … Continue reading →
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