I’ve been in the process of attempting to reduce the electronic clutter in my life. I talked a little bit about this before, and I’ve certainly haven’t missed the deluge of posts in my RSS feed. I decided to take the next step and try to see if I could make myself a “Inbox Zero”… Continue reading One week in Google’s Inbox
Writing
Popularity and/or substance
From Scientific America, they’ve got a mapping strategy that identifies papers that got a big “traditional” splash (the news, research blogs, Mendeley citations, etc) vs those that make a splash on social media. The image below is the result, which is from this article.
Astro Pics of the Year
Okay, while I admit that I found this page because it had the NuSTAR observation of the Sun listed as one of the top ten pics, it also made me think that this was a GOOD year for space imagery… IFL: Top 10 Space Images of 2014
Merging Active Galaxies
Beautiful new shot of Arp299. Red/Blue are the NuSTAR false color hard X-ray images overlaid on an HST optical image. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC Associated news release here, where you can also get a link to larger versions of the image. Because you know you want this to rotate through as your desktop background.
Reducing Infinites
Like most of us, right my primary means of consuming new content is via an RSS reader. I’ve pretty much forsaken Facebook except to keep up with family and old friends and occasionally use my Google+ page as a means of discovering new content (mainly photography, both terrestrial and space), but 99% of the time… Continue reading Reducing Infinites
Yep, we made it into APOD. And on the evening news. Woot. This particular link goes straight to the APOD coverage, but if you Google “NuSTAR Sun” then you can find lots of great coverage.
A giant pulse from M82
Latest NuSTAR Nature paper on the “ultra” pulsar in M82 and the press release via the NuSTAR Caltech site.
The short and the long of it
So this is the first my test of playing out a full featured blog. I think it’s worth it for me to keep notes for myself, just to remember what went into making this thing happen…
Explosions and star guts in Cas A
Early NuSTAR observations of the star guts exploding out of Cas A.