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June 22, 2009
Frank Low, a pioneer on infrared astronomer who was involved in the 102 cm balloon-borne far infrared telescope that formed the basis for my PhD thesis, […]
June 13, 2009
WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is all put together at BATC in Boulder and undergoing final testing before shipping to Vandenberg for launch into a […]
May 16, 2009
The Spitzer Space Telescope is warming up. Just one day after the launch of Herschel, a large but “warm” far-infrared telescope, the liquid helium cooling Spitzer […]
May 4, 2009
Every year the Jet Propulsion Laboratory holds a weekend Open House which gets around 30,000 visitors. That’s lot of space science enthusiasts. The Wide-field Infrared Survey […]
April 22, 2009
I got up early today (April 22) to see the occultation of Venus by the Moon. The disappearance happened before the Moon had cleared a […]
March 31, 2009
While at the Hilton attached to the convention center in downtown San Jose, California, I saw a distant view of the Lick Observatory on snow-covered Mt. […]
March 10, 2009
I am flying off to be the Morgan lecturer at Texas Christian University in Forth Worth, Texas. I will speak about “Observing the Origin of the […]
January 31, 2009