This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. Each page has my text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information. www.nineplanets.org
A new astronomy web forum caught my attention, Eastside Astronomical Society Forum. It seems friendly enough, and as a bonus, they seem to know what they are doing.
Tehachapi Skywatch: Who is this guy, anyway? This month marks a whole year that I've been writing this column. I don't get a lot of fan mail and thanks goes out to all of you who do write but I hear through the grapevine that my column does get widely read. I've told you a lot about the sky, and I've gotten to know some of you. Now I think it's time to tell you about me. Read more
And it came from the CMB . . . Fraser (my co-host over at Astronomy Cast) and I like to joke about how everything we know in astronomy we know because of the Cosmic Microwave Background. How do we know the universe formed during the Big Bang? The CMB. How do we know the cosmic geometry is flat? The CMB. How do we know the mass distribution of the Oort Cloud? The CMB. How do we know where babies come from? The CMB. Read more
Six months on from starting, and on Wednesday last week we finally got permission to install the antenna for the meteor experiment on the roof. In the background you can see the Lovell telescope. The building is the corner of the control room, and the antenna is the silver-looking T bolted to the brickwork near the roof. Read more