by Minter Dial | Jan 15, 2009 | Entertainment
It is the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (and from Wikipedia), a collaboration between UNESCO and the International Astronomical Union. Thanks to an interview on Europe1 this morning of Hubert Reeves, the brilliant Canadian astronomer and philosopher, I learned...
by Minter Dial | Aug 22, 2007 | Entertainment
Picked this story up from the BBC. Is it amazing that, just 250+ light years away, we can still be finding oddities? For my part, I think it’s amazing that we can have the gall to think that we know so much about space to be surprised to be discovering something...