Category: Smithsonian Air and Space
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Space Wombats and Penguin Poop: Spying on Animals from Orbit
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Penguin Spotting, and Other Cool Satellite Tricks You’d be surprised what you can see from 300 miles up For Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: At first glance the picture…
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Designing space telescopes the size of a dinner plate
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Could Future Telescopes Do Without the Mirror? Tomorrow’s Hubble might be the size of a dinner plate. For Air & Space Magazine: Today’s telescopes can see better and farther…
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Seeing the invisible monster at the Milky Way center
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This is my second print magazine feature for Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine. The first was about gravitational waves, published not long before the LIGO detector found the first gravitational…
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Listening to the sounds of the cosmos
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Last year, I went to a conference in Florida to hear — and in some cases meet — some of the leading thinkers in the study of gravitational waves.…
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