A Star a Week

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Amazing Cassini Movie

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A colleague pointed out this movie on the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Check it out.
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Mercury, MESSENGER and Jupiter

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Stellarium's View to the West on March 15 On March 18, the MESSENGER spacecraft will end a orbit around the planet Mercury.  MESSENGE...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Do CFLs Make Sense for BC?

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A Compact Fluorescent Bulb (Wikipedia) I recently noticed that BC has banned 75W and 100W incandescent light bulbs.  I was just wondering...

Watching the Seasons Go By

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A Bit on Snow on the Soil in the Backyard A couple of days ago we had a little snow in Vancouver, so I repeated the experiment of the Ne...
Friday, February 18, 2011

How Many Blue Stars Can You See?

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Looking out at the night sky you might notice that most of the bright stars are blue or blue-white and relatively few are yellow like the Su...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Sun - Frosty Grass

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My Backyard at the End of the Day This is a great experiment that you can take advantage of a really cold day in Vancouver.  At the end o...
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Jeremy Heyl
Jeremy Heyl is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia
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