The Cosmic Mirror

Daniel Fischer looks into the Universe

New: every page both in Europe and the U.S.!

Links to the News and Press Releases / Contact me!

This page is a kind of cosmic "short cut", leading the viewer to the most important (or most entertaining) events in space without wasting lots of time searching around for the real news stories or downloading unknown or useless images - that's my task :-)

So then, welcome to The Cosmic Mirror of March 21, 2006!
There are many long articles and a new Blog (in German) to browse.
Space History - Space News in German - Strange News

Awards:

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Daniel Fischer is also the 1997 winner of the
Bruno-H.-Buergel-Preis of the Astronomische Gesellschaft

Then there are the astronomical expeditions which I like to organize - so far I've been to 11 total and 6 annular solar eclipses, two meteor storms and two major showers, three comets, a transit of Venus and more. Here are my reports on

a stellar occultation by asteroid Polyxo in Nov. 2004 [mirror],
the comet duo, a bright grazing occultation during a TLE & the ToV of 2004 [mirror],
the Leonid storm of 2001 in Korea,
the Leonid Storm of 1999 in Jordan and
the Leonid fireball rain of 1998 in Mongolia.
And reports on the solar eclipses of

2005 hybrid as total [German mirror site] and annular
2003 (annular)
2002 (total and annular),
2001 (total [German mirror site] and annular [mirror])
1999 (total and annular),
1998,
1997,
1995,
1994 [German mirror site] and
1992 expeditions.
Also one more report on the 1997 trip, three more on the 1995 event, and picture stories from our expeditions of 1994 and 1995 (all total eclipses). Now and then I also take pictures of bright comets like Hyakutake or Hale-Bopp (March 28, April 4 and 8). Or watch one crashing into Jupiter (see also my reports quoted by ESO and archived at PDS-SBN [ 2nd report])... Finally I'd like to draw your attention to my publicistic adventures which include the production of the (almost) weekly newsletter Skyweek and the publication of German-language books on the Jupiter Crash, the Galileo mission and the Hubble Space Telescope, the latter also being available in an English edition (reviewed here). And there is a 2nd volume in print!
There is also a CD-ROM on the same topic. I also wrote the Kosmos Report Weltraum Aktuell 1997/98.
Furthermore I also like to give talks on astronomy, some of which are contained in conference videos of The Astronomer.

New: A tested collection of links about Hale-Bopp and comets! ( SuW version)

And for something completely different, try the funny pages...

Search Tools: ForschungsPortal, Google News Tracker, Raging, Excite, PaperBall.

Spaced-out Links worth of frequent checks:

Leading sources for breaking news in space and astronomy:

Astro-ph
Physics
Space Today
Space Daily
Houston Chron.
SpaceRef News
NASA Watch
WAA News

Sky Tel. News
Discovery News
Space.com
ABC News Science

BBC Sci/Tech

ASTRONET Headlines
ESA News, Science

Yahoo & TP

Flame Trench Blog
SpaceWeather

Welt & SZ

Spaceflight Now

Plan. Soc. (Blog)

EurekAlert

APOD, LPOD, EPOD
IdW PMn

Continuous news streams: WAA Berichte | Planetary PhotoJournal - latest pix | Astro.ag | WDR Raumfahrt-Log | AstroTreff | RealClimate (Anti-Green Myths) | Sci.space.news | Sci.astro | De.sci.astronomie | Sci.astro.amateur | Dome of the Sky || Ananova Space | Science Now | Nature Science Update | MondNews | ACC News | Curious | PhysicsWeb | MorgenWelt | Universe Today | NewsReality Astronomy | MSNBC Space News | IDW Forschung | ExploreZone | NYT Science | TeachersNet | Astronomy News | CBS Space ( SciTech) | Wired Tech News | CENAP News | SPIEGEL Wissenschaft | NetZeitung | SZ and Welt Wissenschaft | Yahoo Science | Yahoo Aerospace | NEO News and Big Rock News | AP Science Update | Astronomie.de | IAUCs and GCN Circulars (GRBs) | NewsAktuell | Ticker | MSNBC Science and Tech fronts | RP Wissenschaft | Yahoo News, German news and Tech headlines | WP Top News ( Science, Horizon) | CBS Breaking News in Space | Aurora live! | Comet magnitude estimates, collected by Morris and ICQ | VIDEOTEXT

Updated every two weeks: Space Views & Space Views Update | AstroNet (FTP)

Daniel Fischer, Im Kottsiefen 10, 53639 Koenigswinter, Germany

E-Mail: dfischer@astro.uni-bonn.de, FAX & Phone: +49-2244-870966 (new!)

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