Archives for February 2006
Posted by Davin Flateau on 1 Feb 2006 at 11:03 am.
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To celebrate the opening of the new CyberDome Theater show Black Holes on Friday, February 17, we’ll be featuring articles about these mysterious and powerful objects all month long. By the time March rolls around, you’ll be a an expert, ready to roll into your next cocktail party talking about event horizons and Hawking […]
Read ‘Black Holes All February!’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 4 Feb 2006 at 12:00 am.
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Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission now enroute to Pluto, will give a lecture at KU to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh’s birth. The lecture will be in Kansas Union’s Alderson Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 4.
Following Stern’s lecture, there will be star and planet telescope viewing […]
Read ‘Lecture: Alan Stern at KU’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 7 Feb 2006 at 5:22 pm.
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This is the first article in a series about black holes, in conjunction with the release of the new Black Holes CyberDome show at Exploration Place on February 17.
The History of Black Holes, Part 1
Every child in school learns about the basics of the scientific method: observation, hypothesis and experiment hopefully leading to some […]
Read ‘Black Holes: A Massive Birth’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 10 Feb 2006 at 12:06 pm.
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This is the second article in a series about black holes, in conjunction with the release of the new Black Holes CyberDome show at Exploration Place on February 17.
The History of Black Holes, Part 2
In the first part of our history of black holes, we covered an amazing 228 years in the development of physics, […]
Read ‘Black Holes: A Massive Birth Part 2’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 14 Feb 2006 at 10:15 am.
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The theories were there; the thousands of pages of equations telling its story could plaster the inside of an aircraft hanger from floor to ceiling. Science had written a tale of black holes that would seem completely absurd if it weren’t backed up by so much physics. Black holes were an inescapable celestial abyss that would crush […]
Read ‘Black Holes: A Massive Birth Part 3’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 15 Feb 2006 at 4:41 pm.
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The great Italian astronomer and philosopher Galileo Galileii was born on this day in 1564. His work and invention in astronomy was nothing short of revolutionary, as he observed and recorded details about Jupiter, the Moon, sunspots, and the stars that would rock our view of the Universe from that moment on.
His […]
Read ‘Happy 442nd Birthday Galileo’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 16 Feb 2006 at 5:53 pm.
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There’s a theory that subatomic particles from space hitting our atmosphere may create incredibly tiny short-lived subatomic black holes right here inside Earth’s own air supply. It’s a wild theory that has has a lot of implications, from the possibility of scientists creating their own tiny black holes in the lab, to the confirmation […]
Read ‘Atmospheric Black Holes’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 17 Feb 2006 at 12:00 am.
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Join us in the CyberDome Theater at Exploration Place as we premiere our new major fulldome digital space show Black Holes. Narrated by Star Trek’s “Q” John de Lancie, Black Holes is an exciting look into these powerful and mysterious objects lurking throughout the Universe. What are they? How are they born? […]
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Posted by Davin Flateau on 17 Feb 2006 at 2:32 pm.
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Comedian and The Daily Show star Lewis Black is angry, in case you didn’t know. Last night on The Daily Show, he had some choice words for the New Horizons mission to Pluto slated to arrive there in 2015.
“I can’t wait that long!! I need to know what’s going on at […]
Read ‘Lewis Black Yells Into Space’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 18 Feb 2006 at 12:00 am.
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In conjunction with the opening of the new CyberDome Theater show Black Holes, University of Arizona astronomer, author and black hole expert Dr. Fulvio Melia will be presenting a lecture about black holes February 18 at 1pm, featuring his own research into these mysterious objects. Visitors will be treated to a screening of the […]
