The first green star
RNZ reports on the discovery of an astronomical first, as astronomers used to identifying red giants, black holes, white dwarfs, and stars of a few […]
astronomy
Science Art: Jupiter’s Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a little more. It’s […]
Strange space object: not a planet, orbiting not a star.
Mashable reported recently on a mysterious thing in space — a body we don’t yet have a name for. The category-defying object in CD-35 2722 […]
Roman telescope heads for deep space.
NASA reports on the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now bound on a journey to a LaGrange point — a spot […]
Science Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on their own aren’t […]
Science Art: Sunrise – Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space […]
Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can […]
Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died […]
New star tells oldest story, 12 billion years later
Mashable reports on a newly discovered star that can serve as a time capsule for the some of the earliest days of the universe, made […]
Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895
This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one […]
Science Art: ORDEN DE LOS SIGNOS DEL ZODIACO, 1614.
From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org. This is a chart of the human […]
Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025
This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). […]
Science Art: Instrumento de Geographia y Cosmographia, 1606
This is a tool from Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo, a book of star maps by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Miguel Perez, and Sebastian […]
Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard
Space brings us new analyses of stellar graveyards, which astronomers study to discover how stars develop and, eventually, die – turning into dense neutron stars […]
Where the dark matter hides.
Caltech says that, thanks to an NSF grant, they’ve found where all the dark matter has been hiding. That’s up to 50 percent of matter […]