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Entries from February 2008

Astronomical Running Chickens

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

IC2948 is the less-than-spectacular catalogue number for a nebula in the constellation Centaurus. The more popular name is the Running Chicken Nebula. Steve Crouch, an avid astro-photographer in the Canberra Astronomical Society, took the image below and asks, “Can everyone see the running chicken?”. Well, can you?

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Tags: Astronomy · Images

Self Service Science Search

February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For quite a few years I have been contributing to the ABC Science forums, particularly the ABC Self Service Science forum. Over the years the forums have accumulated quite a few answers to questions on topics from quantum physics to belly-button fluff, but finding them can be a problem without an internal search facility. [...]

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Tags: Computing · Science