Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1502: The Temptress Moon
Posted on · Episode: 1502 In which the temptress Moon leads calendar-makers astray. Today, the moon deceives us.
Tag: astronomy
News
Scientists Are Making Star Stuff In Labs Here On Earth
Posted on · A group of researchers at UT Austin hopes to open up a new way of studying space
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1461: Telescopes
Posted on · Episode: 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes. Today, we look through some really big telescopes.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1457: Eratosthenes’s Diameter of the Earth
Posted on · Episode: 1457 Eratosthenes’s 2200 year old calculation of Earth’s size. Today, we measure the earth.
Business
Solar Eclipse Provides Some Business Opportunities
Posted on · Houston will experience a partial eclipse, so special glasses are likely in high demand.
News
How Eclipses Changed History
Posted on · Newton and Einstein had big ideas, but needed an eclipse to prove them. And scientists are still pursuing secrets of the universe one eclipse at a time.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1329: Life In Outer Space – In 1698
Posted on · Episode: 1329 16th Century scientist, Christiaan Huygens, looks for alien life. Today, an old inquiry into life on other planets.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3059: Vera Rubin and Dark Matter
Posted on · Episode: 3059 Vera Rubin and Dark Matter Today, that which can’t be seen.
News
A (Very Brief) History Of Leap Day
Posted on · Adding one extra day to the calendar every four years isn’t quite as simple as it may seem.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1102: Meteorite at Coruca
Posted on · Episode: 1102 One meteorite too many spells trouble for Earth Today, we await an incoming missile.
Houston Matters
Radio Astronomy: Why ‘Listening’ to the Stars Matters
Posted on · In the 1997 film Contact, Jodie Foster plays astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway. Sheâs devoted her life to searching for proof of life on other planets. In a key scene, sheâs lying on the windshield of her car, headphones on, listening to a distant star system the satellite farm behind her is pointed to. As the […]
Houston Matters
Space City Experts Discuss the Latest in Celestial Exploration
Posted on · Seeing as how Houston is Space City, we thought it might be appropriate, from time to time, to catch up on developments in outer space exploration. Today, we discuss a number of space-related topics with Dr. Carolyn Sumners, the VP of Astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s George Observatory, and Douglas Terrier, Chief […]
Houston Matters
Hubble 25th Anniversary: Space Telescope Rewrote the Astronomy Books
Posted on · This past Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. The project was years behind schedule, and millions of dollars over budget. And its deployment was marred by the discovery of a flawed mirror that rendered its first images blurry. But after subsequent shuttle missions to correct the issue, the Hubble […]
Energy & Environment
Fracking Industry Shedding Too Much Light On West Texas Observatory
Posted on · The McDonald Observatory in West Texas is suddenly dealing with unwanted light.