this is not a Planck post...
- Visalization of the Gödel Universe
- WMAP-9
- Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays? - Astrophysicist lets you pick the priors and decide...
- Harvard did WHAT?
- "Detection of Carbon Monoxide and Water Absorption Lines in an Exoplanet Atmosphere" - Konopacky et al Science (sub) - HR8799 good S/N spectra
- "Direct imaging discovery of 12-14 Jupiter mass object orbiting a young binary system of very low-mass stars" - Delorme et al (arXiv) - substellar circumbinary companion to an M dwarf binary
why, yes, I am procrastinating...
and there is Moore:
Moore's Law in Astronomy and UFOs
The Prose Awards: academic books
"Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy, With R Applications"
By Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu
winner in Cosmology and Astronomy
and...
The Physics of the Kip, and not in the way it mean to me for decades. It only looks impossible.
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