Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home
Click to embiggen. This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land […]
Click to embiggen. This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land […]
Click to embiggen This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of […]
New Scientist points out an unexpected sunny side of the recent switch to digital broadcasting: it’s suddenly a lot easier for radio telescopes to see […]
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the Telegraph reports that an asteroid just blew up over Indonesia with the force of three […]
Click to embiggen This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega […]
Reuters carries the story of the first seed of life to be discovered on a comet: The latest findings add credence to the notion that […]
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big […]
The archives of Space.com have produced an old but strikingly weird story about a strikingly weird discovery – a second moon orbiting invisibly around Earth: […]
Click to embiggen slightly On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – […]
National Geographic breaks the worrying news that Betelgeuse is shrinking: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first measured the star in 1993 with an […]
Click to embiggen vastly You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized […]
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re […]
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have […]
Mmmmaybe. At least, that’s what the Telegraph is saying. They’ve talked to astronomers and are now raising the alarm (and our stress levels) with thoughts […]
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the […]
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