Dawn of a new age

of finding new extrasolar planets of course. Are you as excited as the protagonist in this wonderful xkcd comic below?

Robot Comic

This is pretty awesome, even though I know it has no astronomy content whatsoever. Tom and Servo live!

Why won't Spring hurry up?

Because it can't, as illustrated by this FoxTrot comic. Of course, in the Southern hemisphere, they are waiting for Fall not Spring.

Poor Spirit

Abandoned on Mars by its cruel NASA creators... (courtesy of xkcd):

(Belated) Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

I hope the comic strip below explains why I am so late:



I really hope you and your family and a good holiday season, and I promise to update this podcast (yes, I hope to actually post new shows soon) and Astronomy blog more regularly than the past few months.

Robot Probe from Jupiter

Sort of. Go here to see what I'm talking about.

Poor LCROSS....

It hit the location on the Moon it was supposed to, but unfortunately didn't create the plume of dust and gas the scientists were hoping for. Go here for a funny, yet sad, synopsis.

String Theory Comic

Available here. According to a friend of mine who actually studies string theory, it is a pretty good summary of the field. I particularly like silly string theory...

Astronomy Comics

One on asteroids, another on the expansion of the Universe, and this one on the possibility of human-powered flight on Titan. Both xkcd and Brewster Rockit often have Astronomy-related cartoons and are quite funny (though XKCD is not always appropriate for kids), so check them out. Hope you enjoy!

Comic Strip on Stars

Hope you enjoy this comic strip below. I also don't recomment swinging on a star...

Cute astronomy comic

Courtesy of xkcd:



Go here for the permanent link. And no, I'm not that convinced by the paper in question. There really isn't much evidence that all of the galaxies are being pulled to one area on the sky which just happens to be far enough away from the Earth that light emitted by this object has not arrived yet. That would require that Earth is in a very special location and this is a very special time in the Universe, since a different location closer to this object would have detected it or at some later time we can detect it. The comic is very cute though.