Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Lots of New Planets

The NASA Kepler mission just tripled the number of confirmed Kepler planets with an announcement this morning.  715 new planets!!


Sunday, February 9, 2014

Michelson's Famous Experiment in the San Gabriel Mountains

KCET has a nice article about Michelson's clever experiment to measure the speed of light.  The experiments happened nearly 90 years ago by sending a beam of light from Mt. Wilson to Mt. Baldy and reflecting it back.  More info here.