Globe at Night results are in 2008 are in! The international star-hunting activity known as GLOBE at Night inspired 6,838 measurements of night-sky brightness by citizen scientists around the world, including 660 digital measurements using handheld sky-quality meters. The 2008 campaign received measurements from 62 countries, surpassing last year’s total of 60 countries.

View the Globe at Night Map

Go to the program’s home page: http://www.globe.gov/GaN/

It is with some sadness that I just learned that John A. Wheeler died Sunday April 13 at the age of 96. I also just learned about a multi-session interview available online at http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/5908_1.html. The interview was conducted by Kenneth Ford, one of Wheeler’s students, as research for the latter’s autobiography, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics (Norton, 1998).

This interview is one of the first 50 of about 500 oral history interviews with physicists, astronomers and geophysicists from the AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives collection that are online with the support of an NEH grant. For a list of all oral histories in the collection, see http://aip.org/history/ohilist/. In addition, there is a list of those that are currently online at http://aip.org/history/ohilist/transcripts.html.

Thanks, Joe Anderson, Niels Bohr Library & Archives for the heads-up!