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Curiosity Rover lands on Mars – magnificent!
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Aziz Poonawalla
Last night I returned from masjid at just the right time to tune into the live stream of the final ten minutes of the landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars. The description of how the rover landed is astonishing – in essence, the car-sized rover was lowered to the ground with cables, from a…
Enchanting crescent moon photo with Jupiter system conjunction
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is a gorgeous photo of a conjunction of the crescent moon with the Jovian system. It’s from NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD). Everything in this photo, including the clouds, is brilliant solely due to reflected light from the Sun. Astronomy always leaves me breathless, but I am especially attuned to it during…
The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks tonight
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Aziz Poonawalla
The Geminids are coming tonight! “It’s the Geminid meteor shower,” says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “and it will peak on Dec. 13th and 14th under ideal viewing conditions.” A new Moon will keep skies dark for a display that Cooke and others say could top 140 meteors per hour. According to the…
Copenhagen dreaming: In defense of the scientific method
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Aziz Poonawalla
As the Copenhagen conference on the successor to the Kyoto Protocol draws near, I want to lay some meta-thoughts out about the scientific method which I think are important, as a context for my general support of the theory of global warrming and the need for decisive action by our own nation to reduce carbon…
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