Science News shows how Mars might not have formed with the rest of solid worlds of the inner solar system:
… Read the rest “Mars might be a *really* alien planet.”Simulating the assembly of the solar system around 4.56 billion years ago, researchers
This is a diagram of how Mars appeared in the sky, as observed by Johannes Kepler (and his boss, Tycho Brahe). The question Kepler ultimately answered was why did a planet… Read the rest “Science Art: “De Motib. Stellae Martis” from Astronomia Nova aitiologetos, by Johannes Kepler, 1609.”
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, Revised Edition… Read the rest “Science Art: Motion in Space, 1950”
Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way:
… Read the rest “Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole”Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the
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 – to… Read the rest “Finding life on Wolf 1061”
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 a specific wavelength of green light that shows the… Read the rest “The first galaxies burned with green fire.”
Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see.
From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171”
NASA has published some images of Saturn’s geometrically fascinating north pole that show a new seasonal color scheme:
… Read the rest “Saturn’s “Great Hexagon” changes color with the seasons”
…Scientists are investigating potential causes
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 that could explain a few … Read the rest “Dark matter is… doing something strange.”
SONG: “Gaia (1,000 Times)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Milky Way mapper: 6 ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy,” Nature, 09 Sep 2016, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Gaia (1,000 Times)”
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done:
… Read the rest “That’s a big map.”Gaia, a space telescope launched by the European Space
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization:
… Read the rest “A “strong signal” has SETI excited.”According to Paul Glister,
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor:
… Read the rest “There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.”Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun, has an Earth-sized
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who also spoke … Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.”
SONG: “Electric Wind”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016, as used in the post “… Read the rest “SONG: “Electric Wind””
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