SONG: Gaia (1,000 Times)
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 […]
astronomy
That’s a big map.
Nature reports on the Gaia space telescope’s new map that will pinpoint more than a billion objects by the time it’s done: Gaia, a space […]
A “strong signal” has SETI excited.
Ars Technica has a cautiously not-quite-freaked-out-yet look at what radio astronomers think might well be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization: According to Paul Glister, author […]
There’s an Earth-like planet right next door.
Howdy, neighbor! Nature sets our sights on the planet just like ours orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri, the star closest to […]
Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.
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”
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 […]
The electric wind left Venus without water or air.
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 […]
France – *France* – will save us all from the next killer asteroid.
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 […]
Science Art: An early map of the planet Mars, by Richard A. Proctor, 1867.
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – […]
Listening to the music of the oldest stars.
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 […]
Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!
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, […]
…or maybe not.
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 […]
So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.
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 […]
A new moon in the outer solar system.
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 […]
We’re closing in on Planet Nine. (Or X. Whatever.)
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 […]