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Cut down to size: supermassive black holes turn out not to be so “super” after all
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Caught in the act: sneak preview of galaxy cluster that's still forming
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
First Planck results: from the coldest to the largest objects in the universe
Friday, January 21, 2011
Black holes are not fed by colliding galaxies after all
Monday, January 10, 2011
A little self promotion...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Saturn's rings get spontaneously shaken up
Monday, December 6, 2010
MACHOs, WIMPs and the mystery of the missing mass
Friday, September 24, 2010
What I wish I knew before... I moved to London for university
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Solar system may be older than we thought
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Roundup! 15th - 21st Aug
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Physics is hard!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Look up and see the stars tonight...
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Where have all these auroras come from?
Friday, August 6, 2010
New limit on neutrino mass... from cosmology, not particle physics
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
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Kelly Oakes GBR
I'm an Undergraduate Physics student from Imperial College London, about to start the Masters year of my degree. I mostly write about physics research papers that I find interesting in the hope that other people will find them interesting too. The wordpress version of my blog is here.
My posts are presented as opinion and commentary and do not represent the views of LabSpaces Productions, LLC, my employer, or my educational institution.
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I have a post up on the Scientific American Guest Blog today. It's all about strange exoplanet discoveries, and what they can tell us about our own solar system. I really enjoyed researching and writing it, so I hope you'll enjoy reading it too...
Beta Pictoris and its planet
The image above is of one of the planets I talk about, and its star. It's called Beta Pictoris b and is only around 60 light years from Earth. You'll have to go read my post to find out what's unusual about it, though.
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From Poincare and caos, for modest changes in the initial conditions, the motion of the system becomes chaotic and completely unpredictable. This is impotrtant for viewing two galaxies mix. Three b. . .Read More
Poincare find that trhee body don not have mathematical representation. The mix of two galaxies must be a big caso .Or not? . . .Read More
Psycasm said: Also, how great is that app? I love it. I've tried a few times to construct a pin-hole pr. . .Read More
Great article Kelly! . . .Read More
Also, how great is that app? I love it. I've tried a few times to construct a pin-hole projector for solar viewing, but never managed to get it right. Are there other ways to safely view the sun an. . .Read More