Links

Astronomy Blogs

• Bad Astronomy: one of the most visited astroblogs, written by populariser, debunker and former professional astronomer Phil Plait.
• Chris Lintott’s Universe: it’s his, he owns it, the rest of us are his tenants.
• The e-astronomer: UKIDSS head honcho Andy Lawrence muses on astronomy, science politics and other things.
• In the Dark: cosmologist Peter Coles blogs on astronomy, jazz, football, ballet, cricket, opera, cats and some things that the person writing this link has forgotten.
• Nebulium on Neith: Mr. T-dwarf Adam Burgasser’s blog tribute to The Proclaimers.
• Orbiting Frog: this makes us feel inferior.
• Professor Astronomy: a blog on astronomy and astronomy education.
• Royal Greenwich Observatory Blog: blog written by some of the professional astronomy popularisers at the RGO.
• Sarah Askew: Leidse Sarah blogs on astronomy and instrumentation.
• Universe Today: regularly updated astronomy news blog.
• Women in Astronomy:

Science Blogs

• Bad Science: doctor, writer and tank-top fashion icon Ben Goldacre takes aim at media distortions of science. Good science forum attached
• Cosmic Variance: “random samplings in a universe of ideas”, still haven’t sampled the ideas from Chris de Burgh’s secret moon-base.
• The Lay Scientist: the science bit from science and political blogger Martin Robbins.
• Science Punk: blog of science writer Frank Swain.
• Short Sharp Science: the blog of the New Scientist

Random Astronomy Stuff

• Google Sky: great on-line resource for looking up images of astronomical objects.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day: pretty picture once every 24 hours.
• Bad Astronomy: dispelling common misconceptions in astronomy.
• International Year of Astronomy 2009: information on what’s going on around the world to mark the IYA

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