Valentine’s Day is Sunday!  Instead of trying to decide what to get your significant other, spouse, or family member, suppress your hunter-gatherer instincts for a moment and think about the love you have for that person.  Thousands of symphonies, ballads, sonnets, plays, films and Jem songs have been written about the strength of a bond between two [...]

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This morning, exactly ten tramillion astronomers streamed from their hotel rooms into the first scientific talk of the day, which was the release of the first results from the Kepler mission.  The 5 plantes that were announced at the talk stimulated not only the scientific curiosity of the delegates, but also created a tremendous hunger [...]

It seems that everything’s coming up life these days in astronomy.  From the multitude of extrasolar planets in our galaxy, to the surprising findings about the history of water on Mars, to the vast, the hidden ocean under the surface of Europa, our ideas about how likely life might be in the Universe is quickly [...]