Sunday, February 13, 2011

Cosmic Catch

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a very different kind of ice fishing. The search for neutrinos using deep holes in the ice at the South Pole. The variety among instruments used in astronomy is really amazing.

2 comments:

Paul Weimer said...

Have you read The Edge of Physics yet, Fred?

Frederick Paul Kiesche III said...

Does not ring a bell, so probably not ("So many books, so little time, so many ex-lovers to bury..."). The one non fiction book that I am going out today to buy is Mike Brown's book on how he killed Pluto. I heard an interview with him at Rick Kleffel's The Agony Column podcast and it sounds like not only a good science book but a good book about the politics and at times cutthroat nature of science.