Category: astro
Congress today takes on an omnibus continuing resolution spending bill for 9 out of the 11 appropriations for the current fiscal year. The bill proposes to continue funding for agencies at the 2006 level, with all earmarks stripped out. PS:...
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Category: astro
There is absolutely no truth to the rumour circulated at coffee this morning that the failure of Hubble's Advanced Camera power supply was due to impact from pieces of a Chinese satellite I have, however, not been able to refute...
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Category: astro
Big Boom....
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Category: astro
Neil de Grasse Tyson on The Daily Show now. He is very good. Jon is on form also....
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Category: astro
If you haven't been reading you e-mails, the Hubble call for proposals that expired last friday has been retroactively extended until Feb 9th so people can try to revise their ACS proposals to use WFPC2, or to edit out...
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Category: astro
HST ACS broken. This is not good. At all.
May be an extended CfP to get some schedulable observations to complete the cycle.
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Category: astro
Failure of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. More soon.
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Category: random
Which science fiction author am I I am:Isaac AsimovOne of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales. Which science fiction writer are you? Uh oh. And here...
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Category: astro
Ok, so it is five proposals, not four... Three are in, one should be heading off any minute now, eh? And the last seemed to be in good shape. Could actually be done an hour or two early. Must resist...
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Category: random
Freezin' Friday, and we ask, most humbly, knowing that the answer is subject to the all too human vagaries of the Dreaded TAC: oh, Mighty iPod, what will the outcome of Cycle 16 HST call for proposals be? Whoosh...
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