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Monday
Mar 19 2012
18:38 UTC

Happy 2nd Birthday, Dear Astronomer!

Yesterday, March 18th marked the two year anniversary of the Dear Astronomer website. Interestingly enough, I had started about three years back with a Facebook page. The past few years have been truly amazing, and I want to take a moment to sincerely thank each and every site visitor, plusketeer, follower and fan. Many people

Posted by Dear Astronomer

Friday
Mar 16 2012
17:30 UTC

Angry Birds in Spaaaaaaace!

Earlier this week at the SXSW festival, NASA presented the above video featuring astronaut and ISS flight engineer, Don Pettit. The video is a tongue-in-cheek demonstration of basic physics concepts such as trajectories. In order to show how trajectories work, Pettit used bungee cord to catapult a stuffed Angry Bird toy through the International Space

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