APOD: 2008 June 5 - Spitzer’s Milky Way
'more than 800,000 frames of data from Spitzer's cameras have now been pieced together in an enormous mosaic of the galactic plane - the most detailed infrared picture of our galaxy ever made.'
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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
via Daring Fireball, a [...]
Flickr Photo Download: Egypt: Gizeh
A sphinx. There are loads of cool 1900s lantern slides of Egypt uploaded by the Brooklyn museum. Check out the Paris exposition ones as well. via things magazine.
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APOD: 2008 May 30 - Descent of the Phoenix
Major geek porn: 'the 10 kilometer-wide crater Heimdall lies [...]
With National Moth Night and the Perseids, it should have been a good weekend for night-time stuff.
I didn’t have a lot of luck on either front. Really of course you need a moth trap to count moths effectively. I had a go at treacling—spreading a mix of treacle, brown sugar and rum on tree trunks [...]