Astronomy -- Popular works. Astronomy -- Miscellanea. Errors, Scientific.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date
1 March 2002
Pages
288
ISBN
978-0-471-40976-2
OCLC
48885221
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Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is a non-fiction book by the American astronomer Phil Plait, who is also known as "the Bad Astronomer". The book was published in 2002 and deals with various misunderstandings about space and astronomy, such as sounds being audible in space (a misconception because in the vacuum of space, sound has no medium in which to propagate).
Plait's first book received generally favorable reviews within the academic and astronomy communities and was the first volume in the Bad Science series by John Wiley & Sons Publishing.
BadAstronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is a non-fiction book by the American astronomer Phil Plait...
public outreach advocacy for NASA missions. He has written three books, BadAstronomy, Death from the Skies, and Under Alien Skies. He has also appeared in...
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry...
BadAstronomy, mentioned that the subsequent books will be about scientific misconceptions in biology, weather and the earth. 2002: BadAstronomy: Misconceptions...
Retrieved September 8, 2014. Plait, Phil. "Kryptonite for the supermoon". BadAstronomy. Discover. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved...
declared Betelgeuse as "due for explosive supernova". Phil Plait, in his BadAstronomy blog, noting that Betelgeuse's recent behaviour, "[w]hile unusual ....
Astrology and astronomy were archaically treated together (Latin: astrologia), but gradually distinguished through the Late Middle Ages into the Age of...
11, 2011. Retrieved July 21, 2019. "Moon Hoax Spurs Crusade Against BadAstronomy". The New York Times. Reuters. January 11, 2001. Retrieved January 30...
24, 2003, featuring astronomy news and space-related issues. By early September 2005, the forum section merged with BadAstronomy as a combined site with...
2016), "No, NASA hasn't changed the zodiac signs or added a new one", BadAstronomy, archived from the original on 2 October 2016, retrieved 2 October 2016...
on 19 January 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2010. Plait, Philip C. (2002). Badastronomy: misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing...
50th anniversary of Starfish Prime: the nuke that shook the world". BadAstronomy. July 9, 2012. Archived from the original on August 12, 2022. Retrieved...
it was hard. Hoax theory debunker Phil Plait says in his 2002 book BadAstronomy, that the Soviets – with their own competing Moon program, an extensive...
Violet Martian Sky". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "Phil Plait's BadAstronomy: Misconceptions: What Color is Mars?". www.badastronomy.com. St. Fleur...
websites and blogs, including The Economist, Glamour, Boing Boing, BadAstronomy, Blastr, Blues News, Joystiq, and Freakonomics. In a YouTube video on...
Phil (December 13, 2010). "Mike Adams fails again: Astrology edition". BadAstronomy (blog). Discover. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved...
26 April 2013. "Young astronomer captures a shadow cast by Jupiter : BadAstronomy". Blogs.discovermagazine.com. 18 November 2011. Archived from the original...
hiding in the Beta Taurid Meteor stream? We may find out this summer". BadAstronomy. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019. Sekanina...
for including in-jokes within his designs. In April 2013, Phil Plait (BadAstronomy blogger) reported that Okuda had included an oblique homage to The West...
for a person who is "almost correct." It has shown up on zdnet and "BadAstronomy and the Universe Today" forum. The Peterson Pipes company has a Sherlock...
original on 31 August 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2007. Plait PC (2002). BadAstronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing...
Plait, Phil (February 15, 2009). "Texas Fireball: What's known so far". BadAstronomy blog. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010. Retrieved February...
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