A big moon and a little moon, orbiting Saturn.
… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA18353: Janus and Tethys by Cassini (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)”Moons like Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) are large enough that their own gravity is sufficient to overcome
Nature surveys the growing body of evidence of *something* very big orbiting at the fringes of the solar system:
… Read the rest “Not exactly Nibiru, but… Planet Nine?”“If I read this paper out of the blue, my first reaction would be that it was
Science Daily reports that Japanese observers have just found the second-largest black hole in the Milky Way – by looking at clouds of gas:
… Read the rest “A really, really big black hole.”Astronomers using the Nobeyama 45-m Radio
First found on dthorne books.
I’m guessing this came from a very old Scientific American (maybe 1930s?), but can’t really say for sure.
Welcome, 2016.
This is the Early Modern Milky Way, as appearing in an edition of the ‘Poeticon Astronomicon‘ by the Latin author Hyginus (although the credit also goes to… Read the rest “Science Art: XLII: Milky Way from Mythographi Latini by Thomas Munckerus/Hyginus, 1681.”
Ars Technica looks at something funny out beyond the orbit of Pluto – a thing that’s practically invisible, but that maybe a really, really big planet 10:
… Read the rest “*Is* there something past Pluto?”Research groups from
First Post shows how NASA’s not the only one with big space news today. India has just launched their own space observatory from Sriharikota spaceport:
… Read the rest “How do you say “Hubble” in Hindi? “Astrosat” – sort of.”PSLV-C30 is carrying Astrosat,
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such wide, flat spaces (wider and flatter even than… Read the rest “Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.”
Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around… Read the rest “Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau”
SONG: “How the Moon Began.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015, as used in the post “Scientists:… Read the rest “SONG: “How the Moon Began””
Nature reports on a new way of looking at lunar formation that almost reads like a myth. The moon came to be when Earth collided with a near-identical sister planet:
… Read the rest “Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.”The ‘giant impact’ hypothesis,
The European Space Agency was watching the jets:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab”Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of black-hole
Popular Science takes a wide-eyed look at gravitational lensing, the phenomenon responsible for splitting this supernova into four different images in the night sky:
… Read the rest “One supernova in four different places”But in between this
Scientific American digs into one of the most recognizable, most influential records (and cover images) – the astronomical story behind Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures… Read the rest “Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.”
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833 ”
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