This weekends Riverside Astronomical Meeting was a great meeting. Our guest speaker, Kam Arnold, Assistant Research Scientist at UCSD, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences gave a talk on “Fundamental Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry.” His talk covered the basics of cosmic microwave background (CMB), how it has help with...

This Saturday at 7:00pm at La Sierra University’s Conssentine Hall is the monthly Riverside Astronomical Society’s monthly general meeting. The meeting will begin at 7:00pm and end at 9:00pm.  We will have food and fun. This month’s guest speaker is Kam Arnold, Assistant Research Scientist at UCSD, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. ...

The Rosetta spacecraft has started sending images back during comet 67P’s evolution as it passed around the sun. New jets are forming as the sun heats up the icy comet. Internal pressure is building up as well, causing fissures and cracks to appear, in the after and before photo above. As comet 67p gets closer to the sun, more jets will be...

http://phys.org/news/2014-03-kepler-years-space.html#nRlv – Ex astris, scientia – I am and avid amateur astronomer and intellectual property attorney in Pasadena, California and I am a Rising Star as rated by Super Lawyers Magazine.  As a former Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy, I am a proud member of the Armed Service Committee of the Los Angeles...

Reblogged from http://phys.org Google Inc. has given $1 million to the University of California’s Lick Observatory in what astronomers hope is the first of many private gifts to support an invaluable teaching and research resource for the state. The unrestricted funds, spread over two years, will go toward general expenses, augmenting the $1.5 million...

Just like a Shakespearian play, the two white dwarf stars in Henize 2-428 are circling each other toward a deadly embrace. Each of the white dwarf stars have a little less mass than the Sun. In about 700 million years the stars will merge into a Type 1a supernova, destroying both stars in a fiery final embrace. Normally at the end of the life of...