The Russian cruise missile submarine Kursk went down in the Barents Sea, killing all aboard.  The first link has interesting pictures of the remains of the sub after it had been recovered. The second has interesting background information.

Need a spectrograph for your backyard telescope?  Check out this cool instrument from SBIG.  The good folks at Brookhaven have a table of nuclides online as well as a “Nuclear Wallet Card“. Golly, maybe one day we’ll have electricity too cheap to meter…

Check out the Deep Space Exploration Society- DSES.  They have resurrected a pair of dishes for the purpose of amateur radio astronomy.  They have been doing a sky survey at 1420 MHz.

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