“Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born: Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra […]
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Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race. This is an image of […]
Black hole, light show.
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall: Back in 2011, astronomers […]
Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco
Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration. It begins and ends with the sky. Here’s what […]
SONG: Is There A Light?
SONG: “Is There A Light?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size Lava World […]
Science Art: Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, by Andrew Z. Colvin
Click to embiggen. Hi, neighbors. Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything. Everything.
We’ve got a neighbor (in Alpha Centauri).
The nearest solar system to ours, National Geographic confirms, actually has a planet in it: The planet orbits very close to Alpha Centauri B—the smaller […]
Amateur astronomers find planet with four suns.
BBC has one for the planet hunters – or, indeed, for Planethunters.org, which has just discovered a truly bizarre solar system using a pretty offbeat […]
Once-in-a-lifetime comet comes around.
Watch the skies next year, warns Scientific American, or you’ll miss something you’ll never see again: As it flares out of the distant Oort Cloud, […]
Don’t tell DeBeers: Diamond twice the size of Earth found.
AsiaOne has more on the new planet made of hot, compressed carbon: The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star 40 light […]
Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been […]
Titan is making DNA. Or could be.
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine: Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid […]
Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850
This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection […]
Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.
Click to embiggen Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for. Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though. He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites […]
Solar balloon wins NASA award
A new day is dawning, SpaceDaily.com has announced, with a sunny space balloon rising to new heights: The “High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the […]