Astrosphere for August 7, 2007
Today’s astrophoto for the astrosphere is of Hoag’s Object, captured by RickJ. This is a difficult galaxy to capture with an amateur telescope, so nice work Rick.
Sshhhh. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of the Universe.
A levitation device? Oh, now that would be cool.
There’s a great 6-page article over at Newsweek about Global Warming deniers. Having dealt with it myself, it was great to see a main stream media article that goes this deeply into the concerted effort by polluters to confuse the public.
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