Archive for 2008

Perseid Meteor Shower

Monday, August 4th, 2008 at 11:07 AM

My favorite meteor shower is this month, the Perseids. They are fairly numerous and bright but will be seen very well due to the moon setting around 1 am on the morning of the 12th. The best time to view them is around 3 - 5 am that morning. A friend of [...]

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The Biggest Nothing in the Universe!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:30 AM

On Monday, March 31, at 7:00 pm, in room 116 in the Wick Science Building, the biggest nothing in the universe comes to St. Cloud State University. Professor Lawrence Rudnick from the University of Minnesota co-discovered the largest area in the universe where nothing appears to be found. He will speak about nothing [...]

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Minnesota’s CSI Comes to St. Cloud State University

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 08:38 AM

On February 26, 2008, a member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Science Laboratory will give a presentation to the public at St. Cloud State University’s Physics and Astronomy Seminar Series (PASS).
James Koch, a scientist at the BCA Laboratory, will give a one hour talk on the activities of the Lab, along with [...]

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Renewable Energy, Energy Independence and Climate Change

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 at 08:46 PM

Physicist Louis Schwartzkopf will discuss “Renewable Energy, Energy Independence and Climate Change” 7 p.m. Jan. 22, in Room 116 of the Robert H. Wick Science Building.
The presentation is part of a seminar series sponsored by the St. Cloud State University Department of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Sciences.
“There is increasing evidence that [...]

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The Hubble Space Telescope will be fixed!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 09:19 AM

At yesterday’s meeting at the American Astronomical Society’s winter meeting, I listened to Michael Griffin, the head of NASA, give a talk on the future plans of NASA’s work. He announced that NASA will send the space shuttle to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). HST has slowly been losing its gyroscopes which [...]

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