Science, skepticism, and critical thinking are all about admitting when...
Bad Astronomer and skeptic Phil Plait posted a rant last week about a supposed miracle– a woman, who survived a car accident against all odds. After being deluged by comments from irate readers,...
View ArticleA better top ten
Bad Astronomer Phil Plait presents "The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010". Phil has been doing this for several years now - 2009, 2008, 2007 (runners up), 2006. (Previously)
View ArticleTempel 1 Part Deux
On February 14 NASA's Stardust-NExT mission revisited the comet Tempel 1. Tempel 1 was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact, which smashed into the comet back in July 2005. NExT (New Exploration of...
View ArticleVLA no more
Rename the VLA (Very Large Array)! The famous desert radio telescope, made of a bunch of independently movable giant satellite dishes, has just finished a ten-year upgrade and they're holding a contest...
View Articlethere ain't no arsenic in them thar hills
A strange bacterium found in California’s Mono Lake cannot replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic, according to researchers who have been trying to reproduce the results of a controversial...
View Article"H. R. Gigerstuff was by far the creepiest Sid & Marty Krofft show ever."
"If I ever go to an alien planet, I’m bringing a Giger counter."
View ArticleIce on Mercury?
New evidence for water ice on Mercury. (via Bad Astronomy at its new home)
View ArticleThe Universe is beautiful.
Phil Plait presents the Best Astronomy Images of 2012. Plait and Bad Astronomy previously.
View ArticleMore beholden to magnetism than gravity
Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun (via badastronomyand NASA'sSDO)
View ArticleTwirling, twirling, twirling toward the nebulous 3rd dimension
Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsävainio has created some stunning 3D animations (more at his blog) of far-flung nebula. Phil Plait first pointed to them back in October. Today, there's a post on the...
View ArticleJupiter's Great Red Spot
The Great. Red. Spot."On July 11, 2017, at 00:55 UTC, the armored tank of a space probe Juno reached perijove, the closest point in its orbit over the mighty planet Jupiter. Screaming above the cloud...
View ArticleTime to renovate the Nobels ?
Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait lays out problems of modern science and the Nobel awards.
View ArticleSpace... Well, It's Big
Phil Plait, astronomer and writer of the Bad Astronomy blog, has a Crash Course on Astronomy on YouTube. In 47 10-12 minutes videos, Plait explains basic concepts of astronomy, does a tour of the Solar...
View ArticleBIG badaboom
So, two massive stars a significant fraction of the way across the observable Universe exploded, blasting out death rays into space so energetic that when they reached Earth they created...
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