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Network Security Breaches at NASA

By vorlon | December 5, 2008

Bruce Schneier points to an article at BusinessWeek about repeated attacks on the NASA networks and successful intrusions. The article also mentions a possible connection of the problem of ROSAT pointing too close to the sun in September 1998 to such attacks.

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Ma(r)x Planck!?

By vorlon | April 24, 2008

Yesterday was the 150th birthday of Max Planck, one of the probably most famous physicists. But was his name really Max or was it actually Marx, as Spiegel Online reports. According to an old church book, it appears to be Marx, which is said to be common for the latin name Marcus. Let’s wait what [...]

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Aurora

By vorlon | December 14, 2006

Just got a mail saying that
a fast CME is passing Earth right now.
So there is a good chance to see aurora from now on.
SpaceWeather.com put an “Aurora Alert” note on their frontpage, so everyone have a look…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

By vorlon | October 11, 2006

Immer wieder schön und daher auch mal eine Erwähnung wert, das Astronomy Picture of the Day. Jeden Tag ein neues Bild aus dem Bereich der Astronomie mit einer kurzen Erkärung.

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RSS feeds from arXiv and NASA ADS

By vorlon | September 6, 2006

I’ve been using a RSS feed aggregator for blogs and news sites for quite a while and I have also been doing the same queries on ADS regularly as well as looking at the updated listings for astro-ph on arXiv.org. So I’m finally using RSS feeds for my standard queries on ADS… simply scroll to [...]

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Sonnenfinsternis am 29.03.2006

By vorlon | March 29, 2006

In gut einer halben Stunde sollte hier nun die partielle Sonnenfinsternis beginnen, leider ist Göttingen zur Zeit etwas bedeckt, da werden wohl auch die (angekündigten) Teleskope auf der Dachterrasse vom Institut nichts helfen. Naja… hoffen wir mal, dass es noch aufklart.
Weitere Infos gibts z.B. auf:

http://www.astronomie.de/sonnensystem/sofi/sofi-2006/index-d.htm
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html

Auf der o.g. NASA Seite sind auch einige Links zu Webcasts [...]

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ESO-MIDAS on Gentoo

By vorlon | March 15, 2006

Just got ESO-MIDAS 06FEBpl1.0 installed on my amd64 Gentoo system Last time I tried it didn’t work too well…

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