Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA
Click to embiggen There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show […]
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It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars: With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, […]
Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be […]
Good picture of dark matter.
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing […]
Amateurs find a nearby star by looking through pro astronomers’ old data.
There’s a thing in Australia called “noodling,” where hobbyists look through opal mine spoil piles and find overlooked bits of precious stones. Syfy Wire has […]
Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014
Click embiggen So much depends on perspective. Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a […]
Mars might be a *really* alien planet.
Science News shows how Mars might not have formed with the rest of solid worlds of the inner solar system: Simulating the assembly of the […]
Science Art: “De Motib. Stellae Martis” from Astronomia Nova aitiologetos, by Johannes Kepler, 1609.
Click to embiggen This is a diagram of how Mars appeared in the sky, as observed by Johannes Kepler (and his boss, Tycho Brahe). The […]
Science Art: Motion in Space, 1950
We’re moving on a planet that’s moving around a sun that’s moving – that way. Not a moment of stillness anywhere. From The Physical Sciences, […]
Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole
Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way: Next […]
Finding life on Wolf 1061
Science Daily follows astronomers who have found a planet 14 light-years away that’s in just the right spot – the “Goldilocks zone” around its star […]
The first galaxies burned with green fire.
Science News didn’t get so poetic with their headline, but it amounts to the same thing. A team of astronomers has found a blaze of […]
Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171
Click to embiggen Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see. From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric […]
Saturn’s “Great Hexagon” changes color with the seasons
NASA has published some images of Saturn’s geometrically fascinating north pole that show a new seasonal color scheme: …Scientists are investigating potential causes for the […]
Dark matter is… doing something strange.
The Guardian and physicist Jon Butterworth are looking at something unexpected that the Spitzer Space Telescope has noticed. Galaxies are put together in a way […]