Content tagged "astronomy"
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Dispatches from Planet 3
Marcia Bartusiak illuminates overlooked breakthroughs and the people who made them.
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Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
“These pieces will transport you to ancient Mars, when water flowed freely across its surface; to the collision of two black holes, a cosmological event that released fifty times more energy than was radiating from every star in the universe; and to the beginning of time itself.”
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Podcast: Tom Levenson, “Einstein, Mercury, And The Hunt For Vulcan”
MIT professor of science writing Tom Levenson discusses his new book, “The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe”.
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Einstein, Mercury, and the Hunt for Vulcan
In this talk, Tom Levenson asks why it took more than 50 years — until Einstein’s general theory of relativity — for science to change its mind about the existence of an unseen planet.
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Tom Levenson on science, religion, and the Thirty Meter Telescope
“The dispute over the Thirty Meter Telescope has been framed as the latest skirmish in the long-running campaign pitting science against religion. That’s a mistake.”
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Book review: “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space,” by Lynn Sherr
“Lynn Sherr has provided the next best thing: a biography of America’s first woman in space that is riveting, beautifully written and rich in detail.”
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Money for the Big Eyes
Telescope research began as private ventures, the Medici family’s patronage of Galileo being a famous historical example. Today, the story is not so simple.
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Heart of Darkness
For years, many scientists didn’t believe black holes even existed. Today, however, black holes appear to be everywhere.
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The Day We Found the Universe
Marcia Bartusiak’s “riveting and mesmerizing story behind the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.”
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Cosmos Incognito: Vera Rubin Shines Light on Dark Matter
Vera Rubin and the irrefutable evidence she gathered to persuade astronomers galaxies spin faster than Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation allows.
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Archives of the Universe: 100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos
Archives of the Universe is Marcia Bartusiak’s “unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries.”
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The Endless Mantra: Innovation at the Keck Observatory
A study of historical, current, and future developments at the Keck Observatory revealed a thriving philosophy of innovation.
