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On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light") On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light") YVOR WINTERS The three poems which combine [Emily Dickinson's] greatest power with her finest execution are strangely on much the same theme, both as reg...
Total Lunar Eclipse
through the stratosphere where it is reddened by scattering. However, light passing through the upper stratosphere penetrates the ozone layer, which absorbs red light and actually makes the passing light ray bluer." This can be seen, he says, as a soft blue fringe ar...
Apollo Chronicles: Dark Shadows
Sign up for EXPRESS SCIENCE NEWS delivery On the next sunny day, step outdoors and look inside your shadow. It's not very dark, is it? Grass, sidewalk, toes--whatever's in there, you can see quite well. Your shadow's inner light comes from the sky. Molecules in Ea...
The Da Vinci Glow
knew until the 16th century when Leonardo figured it out. In 2005, post-Apollo, the answer must seem obvious. When the sun sets on the Moon, it gets dark--but not completely dark. There's still a source of light in the sky: Earth. Our own planet lights up the lunar...
The Bamana S�gou State
century, was the longer lived. Unlike some polities whose leaders or forms of governance were imported from elsewhere (such as Lunda state), the political model of Ségou evolved out of indigenous social structures based on hunting, agriculture, and male age-grade associations. O...
BATSE Finds Most Distant Quasar Yet Seen in Soft Gamma Rays
About Us Home >Science News >Science@NASA Headline News >1999 >BATSE Finds Most Distant Quasar … in Soft Gamma Rays BATSE Finds Most Distant Quasar Yet Seen in Soft Gamma Rays Tweet Space Science News home BATSE finds most distant quasar...
Backyard Gamma-ray Bursts
explosions from their own back yard. Right: The negative image sequence shows the visible light from a gamma-ray blast (peak magnitude 9) as recorded by the Robotic Optical Transient Source Experiment (ROTSE) in January 1999. Credit: Carl Akerlof/University of Michigan/Los Alamo...
The Cosmos is the Classroom
the various frequencies contained in the X-rays. [more] Teachers will be able to show their students real images of these clouds of doomed matter, explaining how knowledge of physics lets you "connect the dots" between the observed cloud and the hidden black hole in it...
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