Sometimes it’s useful to try and imagine other people’s points of view. Literally! In this video, Pablo Artal, Professor of Physics at the University of Murcia in Spain, gives a nice demo of what certain eye defects, like myopia or cataracts, do to a person’s vision.
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What other people see
September 29, 2009 By
Astronomers nab photography award
September 27, 2009 By
Two excellent ambassadors for astronomy have been awarded a prestigious Swedish award for their accomplishments in astrophotography. Carolyn Porco, planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and Babak Tafreshi, Iranian science journalist, photographer and IYA enthusiast, were awarded the 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award for Medical, Technical and Scientific Photography, named after the renowned Swedish medical photographer.
Moon River?
September 24, 2009 By
Spectral cube images from Chandrayaan-1
There’s a lot of internet chatter about the recent discovery of water on the Moon – or rather, the discovery of LOTS of water on the Moon. Most of the reactions have focused on the press embargo that was (once again) thrown to the wayside by some naughty journalists, or been rather muted at best. Water on the Moon is not such a big deal: just from looking at the Moon you can tell that plenty of stuff has smashed into it in the past; something was bound to have left some water behind at some stage.
First light for Planck
September 18, 2009 By
First images from Planck, overlaid on an optical image of the galactic plane
The European Space Agency yesterday released first light images from its cosmic microwave background experiment, Planck. Planck was launched together with infrared observatory Herschel in May, and these first data show that the little satellite is in excellent working order.
Blogging research
September 13, 2009 By
You may have noticed the appearance of this little icon on my blog in recent weeks. I though I’d write a quick post to explain! Last month I found out about, and signed up with, ResearchBlogging.org. ResearchBlogging is a site that aggregates blog posts on academic research. When I want to write about a paper, I can use the site to generate a citation in html format that I can include in my post. ResearchBlogging then picks up these citations in blogs that are registered to the service, and collates them according to subject. Once a week or so, editors pick highlights from different subject categorie and publish them on the site’s own news blog.
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