astronomy - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Tue, 02 May 2023 18:04:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png astronomy - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Reflecting Self https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/03/07/reflecting-self/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:37:00 +0000 https://www.talksciencetome.com/?p=787 Selfies. Definitely notorious in the digital world. Who hasn’t wrinkled up their nose in disgust at a friend’s shameless self-promotion or puckered up a duck face for the camera? Or maybe selfies power your voyage of exploration for personal acceptance, understanding and confidence. Universally reviled, or defended as an act of self-expression. A moment of attention-grabbing… Read More »Reflecting Self

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]]> 787 #goodbyephilae #goodbyerosetta https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/09/29/goodbyephilae-goodbyerosetta/ Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:37:19 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3458 Talk Science To Me staff are a bunch of hard-nosed, emotionless science communicators who check their feelings at the door each day to report the cold, hard facts… Okay, strike that — as you know from previous blog posts, we’re passionate about science and unafraid of wearing our hearts on our sleeves. When little Philae… Read More »#goodbyephilae #goodbyerosetta

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]]> 3458 Treasures: Stellar Nucleosynthesis https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/01/treasures-stellar-nucleosynthesis/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:25:41 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1570 Most of the things in our “Treasures” series are living organisms. I think this is partly because lots of living organisms are easy to identify with: they exist on a scale similar to ours and are easy to categorize as discrete entities. Phenomena are a little harder to sell, for the most part. Stellar nucleosynthesis has… Read More »Treasures: Stellar Nucleosynthesis

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]]> 1570 The Chelyabinsk event https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/20/the-chelyabinsk-event/ Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:50:11 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=501 My friends and I all have vivid mental pictures of the Tunguska Event, probably because of Carl Sagan’s retelling of it in the original Cosmos series. Recently, another region of Russia—the Urals—was jolted awake by a similar, though smaller, event. This one caused more casualties than any other strike on record. Reports are that close… Read More »The Chelyabinsk event

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