Slacker Astronomy falls into the second category. The site offers a more relaxed, conversational approach to astronomy as it chronicles the field through a blog, podcast and wiki. Blog posts look at topics like the newly discovered sub-surface oceans of Saturn's moon Enceladus, naked-eye gamma ray bursts, lunar eclipses and the latest flybys of Mercury. Each post gets to the core of the issue at hand without sandblasting readers' brains with too many obscure astronomical terms, and should be good for casual fans of astronomy.

The podcast takes a scattershot approach to the topics it covers. There are interviews with professional astronomers, cosmology episodes looking at the origin of the universe, First Principles discussions talking about fundamental concepts of modern astronomy and Slackerpedia Galactica shows supplementing the wiki of the same name. That wiki has more than 500 pages, ranging from the Andromeda Galaxy to Newton's Laws, with occasional detours to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Slacker Astronomy's only drawback is that it isn't updated more frequently, but given that it's written by self-described slackers, that only makes sense.