Science

Cosmic Catastrophes: Transient Phenomena and the Renaissance of Astrophysics

Monday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. California Academy of Sciences Astronomical transients are events that appear and disappear in the sky and are signs of catastrophic events in space, inc... Read More

Science, Technology

Saved by Goldilocks

By Greg Dalton

When people at Miami cocktail parties learned that John Englander was writing a book about sea level rise, many people took him aside and quietly asked him a question. “If I ... Read More

Science

A sky full of earths

By John Zipperer

Stroll along Crissy Field at night and look up into the sky, and you will see lots of stars. But because of the interference of other lights in the metro area, you won’t see ... Read More

Science

Venus puts on a last-in-our-lifetime show across the Sun

By Keith Turner

During the month of June, you will have the chance to see an event that will not happen again in your lifetime. It is the “transit of Venus,” an occasion when the planet Ve... Read More

Science

Cosmic Catastrophes: Transient Phenomena and the Renaissance of Astrophysics

Saved by Goldilocks

A sky full of earths

Venus puts on a last-in-our-lifetime show across the Sun

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