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You’re invited to the next episode of Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy.
This month, Dr. Knop is giving a talk titled “The Continuing Copernican Revolution: from Heliocentricity to the Cosmological Principle”. The abstract is below.
Date: Friday, September 5
Time: 8:00 AM Pacific Time (PDT, SL time)
Location: The Galaxy Dome floating above the sim named Spaceport Bravo
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/117/66/278
Abstract:
When humankind […]
You’re invited to the next edition of Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy:
Title: Exoplanets - Planets Around Other Stars
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008
Time: 8:00 AM Pacific Time (SL time)
Abstract:
Until the last decade of the 20th Century, we knew of exactly one star system that had planets: our own. At the dawn of the 21st Century, we knew […]
You’re invited to a talk by George Djorgovski from CalTech, titled “Virtual Observatory, and Information-Rich Astronomy in the 21st Century.” The abstract is below.
Date: Friday, June 27
Time: 8:00 AM PDT (SL Time)
Location: The Galaxy Dome floating above the sim named Spaceport Bravo
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/117/66/278
Like most other sciences, astronomy is being transformed by an exponential growth […]
Note: This event was moved from Friday, June 6 to Thursday, June 12, due to technical problems with the SL grid.
You’re invited to a the next edition of Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy! Here are the timespace coordinates; details follow the portrait of Newton:
When: 10:00 AM PDT (SL Time) on Thursday, June 12
Where: […]
You’re invited to a live seminar in Second Life:
When: Friday, 2 May at 8:00 AM PDT (SL Time)
Where: In the Galaxy Dome floating above the sim named ‘Spaceport Bravo’. SLURL
The Cat’s Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula
Abstract: Stars live for millions or billions of years, but they don’t live forever. When a star reaches […]
This coming Tuesday, Dr. Simon Portegies Zwart will give a presentation titled “Simulating the Galaxy”, about how he and his colleagues use computers to simulate thousands of stars. All are welcome - the talk is accessible to the general public.
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 26
Time: 11:00 AM PST (SL Time), 2:00 PM EST, 19.00 […]
There’s a good article about government agencies getting into Second Life over at GovernmentExecutive.com.
Education World columnist Doug Johnson also wrote a nice “One-Afternoon Second Life Tour” on the TechProof blog, where he points to NOAA’s Meteora, the International Spaceflight Museum and Genome sim.
zazen Manbi has posted an audiovisual recording of the SciLands panel, which occurred at 4:30 PM Chicago time on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Check it out.
Here is a view from NASA-CoLab (lower half) to ISM’s Spaceports Alpha & Bravo (at the upper left), NASA-JPL (center), and Elon U to the right.
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Paradox
Torley Linden (formerly Torley Torgeson) took a great 360 degree panorama photo of the SciLands sims NASA CoLab, Elon, Explorer Island (JPL), and Spaceport Alpha (International Spaceflight Museum). Torley then passed it through some filters to give it a lovely Ansel Adams look…
You can see larger versions on Flickr.
