Orbiting Frog

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The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA 304) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

Discovery, over southern Morocco during the ISS fly around before departure (by Paolo Nespoli)

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Animation of three wavelengths of the Sun from Pete Lawrence (@AvertedVision, via @willgater).

Like most bureaucracies [the Research Excellence Framework] has lost sight of its original purpose and has now become something that exists purely for its…

The Moon and Jupiter at the end of my street.

Spring must be on its way, Leo is riding high.

Later this month, I’m going to be picking back up on Science Question from a Toddler—a regular feature that finds the surprisingly deep science behind simple…

I love creative science analogies, which is why I’m digging this story about a lecture given by Bob Paul, a biology professor at St.

Martin Lewis photographs an astronaut in orbit from his back garden!

Paleaku Peace Gardens Sanctuary in Kona, Hawaii, USA.

A video of ESA’s Planck spacecraft, as seen from Earth.

Information underpins everything in the universe, Gleick says, from music to money.

The Moon, Venus and Jupiter from last year.

itsfullofstars: > Two Planets Discovered Sharing the Same Orbit > > In a cosmic first, the Kepler telescope has discovered two planets sharing the same orbit.…

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Amazing images of the Milky Way captured by amateur astronomer on the hills of Snowdonia

Will Gater’s montage showing the ISS reflecting the changing colours of sunset.

With the recent change in website structure, my Look Up webapp has moved to http://lookup.orbitingfrog.com - sorry for not mentioning that this was going to…

With the recent change in website structure, my Look Up webapp has moved to http://lookup.orbitingfrog.com - sorry for not mentioning that this was going to…

Thierry Legault does it again!

Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on…

Stuart Lowe (LCOGT, Astronomy Blog) has created a wonderfully simple in-browser planetarium called Virtual Sky, using javascript and the HTML5 canvas element.…

The #IAS2011 website is now live for viewing.

Google Global Science Fair 2011

The people at Bits From Bytes, who sell 3D printer kits, fed some mashed potatoes to a RapMan printer and used it to print some quite credible prototype 3D…

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We perform a detailed investigation of sources from the Cold Cores Catalogue of Planck Objects (C3PO).

Zeta Oph: Runaway Star (APOD) there was recently some talk about spotting runaway stars in the Milky Way Project.

I can now display a FITS file in a web page.

Visible and near-infrared spectra of transiting hot Jupiter planets have recently been observed, revealing some of the atmospheric constituents of their…

The properties of molecular clouds associated with 10 HII regions were studied using CO observations.

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/19764869 w=500&h=281] My nephew, Taliesin is 3 years old and lives near Cardiff in the UK.

As Discovery heads into orbit for its final mission, take a look at what is inside a Space Shuttle (from Space.com)

Amazing sunset installation at Tate Modern.

This is a great, new beta tool for exploring the ADS database and finding papers about topics, people or themes.

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This is worryingly realistic.

APOD: 2011 February 23 - The Solar System from MESSENGER

An amazing image I found on the Milky Way Project.

Arfon’s thoughts and experiences here closely match my own - but he actually wrote it down :) The Time is Now for Astroinformatics

photosgo: > Radiolab: Lucy > > > Chimps.

\Cross-posted from [the Milky Way Project blog] I’ve spent much of the past two weeks messing about with different ways to reduce down over 200,000 bubbles…

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Sarah Kendrew has some great stuff in her weekly Research Blogging roundup.

I’m taking part in the 2011 I’m a Scientist… Get Me Out of Here competition.

I got this great mug for Christmas showing the Drake Equation.

I am trying something new and have moved the blog from Wordpress to Tumblr.