Archives for July, 2008
Arecibo Oh NO!
Posted by Claire L. Evans on July 6, 2008
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Dear readership, As far as I know, I have never used this website as a political platform. I have weakly festered under the steely gaze of a particularly anti-science American administration without uttering much of a peep, but this, however, I cannot let stand. The Arecibo telescope is the world’s largest radio telescope and currently…
Life On The Space Station
Posted by Claire L. Evans on July 2, 2008 Earlier this year, I attended a “Star Party” at the MacDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, a venerable institution perched on a hill in the far west Texas desert. The skies out there are, understandably, crushingly big and so teeming with stars that the astronomers guiding the public stargazing events need to aim high-powered laser pointers…
