Biggest GRB so far...

From a student's perspective... 

What happens when you let 2 astronomers loose in an Apple store?

...and especially if it's the world's second largest one... Jayanne and Theresa were having fun!!!

If you want to see more photos of this memorable event, click here, and you will be brought to a webalbum with probably more photos than you'd want to see...

FOR IYA - Women in Astronomy Blog

Here's a blog that might be of interest...
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/

It was posted in the CSWA email bulletin.

CoolCosmos

Here's what they are doing at the U of Toronto for IYA:

Cool Cosmos (and you can join the facebook group)

Ivan Semeniuk has a podcast, blog and articles.

enjoy! jayanne

Nature Images of the Year 2008

There's lots of astro piks in Nature's selection of images.

Fri Dec 12 2008

An interesting set of observations of the Einstein Cross, Q2237+030:

"Astronomers dissect a supermassive black hole with natural magnifying glasses"
http://www.physorg.com/news148316066.html

Stephen Hawking in Canada

He's got distinguished position with the Perimeter Institute, with longish visits anually.

See this short article.