Imagination becoming reality
Comparing images from space with paintings of space.
Articles Tagged with astronomy
The Sun, clouds and people
Levels of predictability
The recent solar eclipse demonstrates much more than astronomy. (Image: one page of Guy Ottwell’s The Under-Standing of Eclipses, available here)
The Crescent Sun
Enjoying a partial eclipse
We didn’t make it to the path of totality last week. But we found that a partial eclipse can be just as enjoyable, for unexpected reasons.
Local color
An exercise with the company title
We present some results from our investigation into color photography.
Non-spectacular spectacles
Seeing astronomical events
A total solar eclipse is an amazing spectacle. You might not even notice other astronomical events.
Relative paradoxes
A note on the sociology of science
A recent article on one of the great scientists in the field of General Relativity prompted our astronomer to reflect on stereotypes in science, and how sometimes they can be very wrong.
Proving nothing
Narrowing it down
Proving that something doesn’t exist is hard, though it can be done. More often, scientists work out more and more restrictions on the characteristics something can have, until the idea has no place left to hide.
Indirect arguments
Simple is not always true
A common feature of paradoxers is a confusion between a simple argument and a correct one.
An unlikely number
Science and social science
Differences among the PhDs
Methods and results differ among the various sciences. This comes from differences in their subject matter and is not always understood, even by scientists.