SocraticGadfly: Amateur astronomy in the digital age

August 07, 2008

Amateur astronomy in the digital age

Today, amateur astronomy can involved sifting through online digital pictures of stars or galaxies, or crunching stellar and interstellar chemical data, just as much as peering through a telescope.

And, it can still produce new findings, such as the new discovery of a “a cosmic ghost” found by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny van Arkel. The finding is significant enough to get Hubble Telescope time next year.

Well, with a 49 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit, Brinker’s obviously hurting.

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