The second day of the “Neutrino Conference XIII” in Venice was dedicated to, well, neutrino telescopes. I have written down in stenographical fashion some of the things I heard, and I offer them to those of you who are really interested in the topic, without much editing. Besides, making...

I learned too late from Amanda at AstroPixie that Sunday was International Women’s Day. I wish I had known in time to write something for then, but I guess that’s OK. The point of the day is to raise awareness, and it made me think about a couple of issues. So let me talk to you about th...

So, what’s wrong with this picture? Answer: Aaaaiiiiieeeee! OK, first, a little background. The crescent Moon can be a stunning sight. It hangs near the Sun after sunset (or before sunrise), up in the west (or east) while people are still out and about. The shape itself is lovely, and it shine...

Saturn, the second largest moon-whore in the solar system (behind Jupiter), has been caught hiding another trick in one of it's outer rings. What a slut! The discovery of what appeared to astronomers as a faint, moving pinprick of light, was announced by the International Astronomical Union. The int...

Astronomers Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer have found what appears to be the best candidate seen for a tightly bound binary black hole, a close-knit duo of death in the center of a quasar. They sifted through over 17,000 quasar signatures to find this rare pair, sitting in the center of quasar SDSS 1536...

Black holes once existed exclusively in the realm of theory, but astronomers have become increasingly adept at spotting the telltale signs of objects that are hard to spot due to the fact that they suck in any light that happens to cross an event horizon. Black holes have fallen into two separate ca...

The folks working with the fantabulous Cassini Saturn probe just released a very cool image indicating a very cool discovery: a moonlet embedded in Saturn’s G ring. Saturn’s G ring is the second outermost ring (one more ring, E, is outside G, but very wide and diffuse). It’s about ...

Backing up your data is important, but let's be honest - the most important things on your hard drive are old photos and some stuff for work.  Unlike the Hubble archives, which uncovered an entire planet that  lurking in eleven year old data, and as many as a hundred more could be hiding i...

Have you ever discovered a supernova? Well, I haven't, but I can only imagine finding a star that has blown itself to smithereens must be pretty exciting. At least that's what I thought, anyway…. Seemingly, a fair amount of folks must be out there who have found supernovae. In 2008 alone...

Sadly, I cannot embed this video (hey BBC, it’s the 21st century! Hello? Hello? Free publicity here! Sigh.), but it’s worth clicking to see this clip of the brilliant comic (and even better skeptic) Stephen Fry hosting the game-like show "Quite Interesting" — a program wh...