Science Art: Explorer I
Click to embiggen A diagram. An iconic diagram. This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on […]
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It falls everywhere.
Well, as the world markets plunge, something else has started falling. It’s snowing on Mars: iTwire reports: Canada’s York University professor Jim Whiteway, who is […]
New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)
Look at this: while listening to this. In the lifeless, frigid Martian arctic, the sun only sets at the end of summer, then rises, weakly, […]
Hello, neighbor. (Science Art: First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star)
For the first time, astronomers have snapped a photo of a planet orbiting a star like our own Sun. That’s it. Not a recreation or […]
Space bears, more like.
New Scientist has joined the chorus of publications huddling around the cutest space invaders ever. Swedish researchers have just proved that tiny creatures called tardigrades, […]
Science Art: “Phases of the Moon” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Science Art: Swift Naked Eye Gamma Burst
Click to embiggen Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones. On Mar 16, Earth’s most sophisticated telescopes were briefly blinded by a flash of […]
Science Art: The moon seen from above Cuba, 2-24-2005
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare
Click to embiggen vastly From the NASA Image Galleries: On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known […]
Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it. When Spitzer launched […]
Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
Click to embiggen This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) […]
“Something big smacked into Mars…”
“…and stripped half the crust off the planet.” That’s a new theory about the Red Planet reported in Science News and elsewhere. The problem: The […]
The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).
I’m quite impressed by “Cosmology in 10 Minutes” by Danielle Fong, her attempt to explain why scientists believe what they do about how this all […]
Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora
Click to embiggen An ultraviolet image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the vast, violent, invisible auroras around the huge planet’s poles. […]
Fireworks.
Or the next best thing: New Scientist’s gallery of supernova remnants. Here’s the most recent photo: Click to embiggen; photo credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team This […]