Science Art: The moon’s influence on earth’s tides, c 1930s.
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s.
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“Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.”
Science Daily has us imagining that message being broadcast to an an interstellar ship full of would-be colonists, thanks to new research that’s found some so-called “Goldilocks… Read the rest ““Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.””
The biggest particle accelerator in the *universe*… is made of galaxies.
Nature writes so calmly about shockwaves of such epic proportions:
… Read the rest “The biggest particle accelerator in the *universe*… is made of galaxies.”Four massive clusters of galaxies are plowing into one another at a crash site about five billion light-years from Earth.
Meet the Mega-Earth
Harvard researchers have found a whole new kind of planet. It’s just like ours, only way bigger:
… Read the rest “Meet the Mega-Earth”Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of planet –
Farewell, Spitzer telescope?
Nature covers the hard decisions that NASA faces in its latest budget… which may include shutting down a great space telescope (and an asteroid watchdog) to keep some other great … Read the rest “Farewell, Spitzer telescope?”
Howdy, neighbor!
Universe Today celebrates a Goldilocks discovery. The Kepler mission has found a planet just the right size and in just the right place to have life on it:
… Read the rest “Howdy, neighbor!”The newly-confirmed extrasolar
Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel
This is a galaxy named M83, which is usually a faint smudge in the constellation Hydra. Up close, however, Hubble Space Telescope was able to see that it’s “ablaze… Read the rest “Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel”
Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854
This is the face of the man who was ROBBED by the third episode of Cosmos. Planetary motion? Elliptical orbits? Not Newton’s ideas – this guy’s.
And the story of how he … Read the rest “Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854”
Faster computers will find aliens.
If you never thought cosmic loneliness was a computing problem, think again. In Popular Mechanics, SETI leader Seth Shostak says Moore’s Law means we’ll find aliens in the… Read the rest “Faster computers will find aliens.”
Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory
This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.
Edwin … Read the rest “Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory”
Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?
Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million years. One guess: Our solar system passes through… Read the rest “Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?”
Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of
Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.
PhysOrg has the skinny on ESA’s Gaia telescope and its quest to catalogue a billion stars:
… Read the rest “Largest space telescope is ready to… observe.”Gaia will be able to discern objects up to 400,000 times dimmer than those visible to the naked
SONG: “The Impossible One”
SONG: “The Impossible One” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,”… Read the rest “SONG: “The Impossible One””
Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.
Nature examines he implications of a planet that *should* be a twin to Earth, but isn’t – because it’s a gassy Earth-sized planet:
… Read the rest “Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows.”Not only is the planet too warm for liquid