In which I predict that the Rapture won’t happen, and I break out the Facepalm.
MESSENGER’s first image from Mercury orbit!
In which I show off MESSENGER’s first image from Mercury orbit!
[Book Review] How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, by Mike Brown
In which I review “How I Killed Pluto and why it had it coming”, by Mike Brown. (it’s really good!)
Big moon rising!
In which I discuss the larger-than-normal appearance of the full Moon in tonight’s sky. Next month it’ll look even larger!
Stardust flies past Tempel-1 comet!
In which I show off the latest pictures from the Tempel 1 comet!
Planethunters: How to download Kepler Data from MAST and view it in Excel (for advanced users!)
In which I explain how to download Kepler data from MAST, and show you how to import it into Excel!
Planethunters: Kepler Q2 searchable star/planet spreadsheet now available!
In which I discuss the latest Q2 data release, and release a handy spreadsheet containing all the planet and star data!
Kepler discovers the first extrasolar rocky planet!
In which I discuss Kepler’s discovery of an earth-sized, rocky planet around another star!
Planethunters: How to download Kepler lightcurve data! (for basic users)
In which I show you how to download Kepler lightcurve data and plot a graph in Excel!
Planethunters: How to ID a star on the Kepler Data Search site (updated to Q2)
In which I tell you how to find the Kepler ID of a star from the Planethunters.org database!