Hubblecast

While looking at the Hubble site a few days ago I noticed that the folks at ESA have started a new video podcast named Hubblecast. The first episode is presented by an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory - Dr Joe Liske - who has particular interest in cosmology, galaxy evolution and quasars. The first episode talks about recently released HST images of a galaxy being ripped apart by a cluster of galaxies.

Dr J (as the HST site is calling him) even has a MySpace page, although I'm very disappointed to see that he hasn't removed the "Zodiac sign" field from his profile. Two other astronomers - Dr Luca Cortese and Dr Jean-Paul Kneib - will be involved with future episodes.

I've added Hubblecast to the Astronomy Media Player.

Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Tuesday 06th Mar 2007 (13:03 CET) | 13 Comments | Permalink

Comments: Hubblecast

My blogspot profile lists me as Aquarius. And, i suppose, most astrologers would put me there. But the Sun was clearly in Capricorn when i was born. I don't get to edit my sign - just my birth date. Do i lie about my birth date to get the proper sign? If i do that, then my calculations on my Chinese New Year are wrong. You see, with a January birthday, you stand a good chance of being in the previous year. But it depends on the phase of the moon for the year of your birth. And as the full moon fell just before the equinox, the new year came late in 1959. So, i'm a dog, not a pig. Or is it a pig, not a dog? I forget. I'll have to go out for Chinese food again. Great wisdom comes from placemats.

Posted by Stephen on Tuesday 06th Mar 2007 (18:44 UTC)

I knew I would get told off for this...

Having the "Zodiac Sign" field was not my choice.

As 'Stephen' pointed out already one cannot edit

or delete the "Zodiac sign" in the myspace

profile. So I'm stuck with it...

Posted by Dr J on Thursday 08th Mar 2007 (16:53 UTC)

No worries Jochen. I didn't realise that MySpace didn't allow you to remove a field. If you are able to add any CSS style information to the page, you may be able to get around it! After a look at the HTML I came up with a cludgy solution. Try adding the following style sheet information somewhere:

tr#Zodiac { visibility: collapse!important; }

Hey I've just noticed that Lars is one of your MySpace friends. I can finally put a face to the name. Cool.

Posted by Stuart on Friday 09th Mar 2007 (14:29 UTC)

Update: visibility:collapse doesn't seem to work in Internet Explorer so try using visibility:hidden instead.

Posted by Stuart on Friday 09th Mar 2007 (15:01 UTC)

I've tried getting rid of the "Zodiac Sign" using the method you suggested but had no success. I entered

In the "About me" section but when I saved it off it changed the # to #

In any case, it didn't work...

Posted by Dr J on Wednesday 14th Mar 2007 (17:37 UTC)

D'oh... it obviously didn't print the code in the above post. Let's try again. This is what I entered:

Posted by Dr J on Wednesday 14th Mar 2007 (17:39 UTC)

And again:

style type="text/css"

tr#Zodiac { visibility: hidden!important; }

/style

Posted by Dr J on Wednesday 14th Mar 2007 (17:42 UTC)

Dr J, without a MySpace account of my own I don't know what to advise at the moment. I'll see if anyone I know has an account and I'll try it out there and get back to you.

Posted by Stuart on Wednesday 14th Mar 2007 (22:24 UTC)

OK, after a frustrating amount of time trying to work out how to allow # symbols to be saved I gave up and tried a less elegant solution. This hides all hyperlinks which link to the horoscope section. Within style tags add:

a[href ^="http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=horoscope"] { visibility: hidden!important; }

Posted by Stuart on Friday 16th Mar 2007 (11:55 UTC)

OK, that solution didn't work in IE. The following solution should work in Firefox and IE 7:

tr[id="Zodiac"] {

visibility: hidden!important;

}

tr[id="Zodiac"] td, tr[id="Zodiac"] td span, tr[id="Zodiac"] td a {

height: 0px;

font-size:0px;

margin:0px;

padding:0px;

border:none;

}

Posted by Stuart on Friday 16th Mar 2007 (15:20 UTC)

Or... you could try the advice of Perpetual Progress which solve the problem by hiding the details table and building a replacement!

Posted by Stuart on Friday 16th Mar 2007 (15:38 UTC)

Ok, that worked! Well done, and thanks for that!

Posted by Dr J on Tuesday 20th Mar 2007 (18:00 UTC)

To Hide the Zodiac in myspace you put

at the top of the "About Me"

then in the "Heros" area put