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 […]
SONG: “Electric Wind”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Water on Venus was stripped away by ‘electric wind’,” Wired, 21 June 2016, as used in the post “The […]
Wired has more on how Venus was left a waterless desert due to the “wind” of charged particles from the Sun: Venus is one of […]
Oh, yes. Nature tries to downplay it, but it’s the French who have launched an unprecedented meteor-spotting network to scan the skies: By the end […]
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – […]
Sci-News turns an ear to the heavens to learn about the oldest stars in the Milky Way – by listening to their acoustic oscillations: The […]
Nature goes EXXXTREEEEME!!! in the search for evidence of water on Mars. And boy did they find evidence. Seems like a couple billion years ago, […]
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction: From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor […]
All kinds of news outlets have picked up this Le Journal de Montreal story on William Gadoury, a teenager who noticed that Mayan constellations lined […]
So first, there’s a dwarf planet called Makemake. And now, says Space.com, Hubble found out that it has a moon: Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space […]
Wired (with a little help from Cassini) narrows our search for the hidden, big planet orbiting the fringes of the solar system: Matthew J. Holman […]
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working […]
Science Daily reveals how a century-old spectrographic analysis is probably the first ever evidence of an alien planetary system: bout a year ago, the review’s […]
I’m sure if you’re reading this, you’re already regularly checking out Bad Astronomy, but just in case you missed it, Phil Plait is asking a […]
SONG: “Janssen.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists just analyzed the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ for the first time,” Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2016, as […]
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