Sooty, with a chance of diamonds.
Pennies from Heaven? P’shaw! Nature looks over the vastly overvalued weather report on Saturn and Jupiter: …Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Flintridge, and […]
astronomy
Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)
Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, […]
A Super-Earth (with Plasma Water Skies).
Space.com reveals the weirdness of water – neither ice, nor liquid, nor vapor – found on a faraway planet: Astronomers have determined that the atmosphere […]
These guys are tracking the Space Station with coat hangers.
GigaOm has a great DIY project for space fans: Signals picked up by the antenna, which is made of a 10-foot wooden board and metal […]
Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti: A rare state of matter […]
I don’t know that quasar – can you hum a few bars?
Smithsonian joins the celestial chorus singing the praises of a new way to process astronomical data. A software package called xSonify is turning the sounds […]
Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,
This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot. From the NASA Image of the Day […]
Something just blew up on the Moon.
A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years: “On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of […]
Science Art: “Star Wounds” of the Earth, 400 million years, 1998 stamp, Ukraine
Par avion? [Image via Wikimedia Commons]
Something strange was found in Antarctica. Something alien. And very, very small.
New Scientist has more on the possible discovery of two cosmic neutrinos near the South Pole: In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at […]
Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of […]
SONG: “So Heavy”
SONG: “So Heavy” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” […]
Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet
Nature calls them, poetically enough, the skeletons of
Hubble snaps galactic vee.
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space: This […]
Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT […]