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Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall

20 June 2010 grant b 0



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This is the Great Bear, which has led our eyes to the North Star for centuries.

Sidney Hall was an engraver best remembered for maps and atlases of our world here. … Read the rest “Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall”

Science Art: “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” by Walt Whitman.

13 June 2010 grant b 0

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I,

… Read the rest “Science Art: “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” by Walt Whitman.”

Science Art: Lunar eclipse March 2007

30 May 2010 grant b 1



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A montage of photos taken from the USS Boxer (LHD 4) while the ship was on maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. The earth’s shadow stood between the sun and the moon… Read the rest “Science Art: Lunar eclipse March 2007”

Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.

16 May 2010 grant b 1

after Ann Druyan

I send for you my heartbeat,
the rhythms of my latest dream.
You are just now finding the frozen clicks
of muscles, cooling like just-parked cars.
Through endless fields

… Read the rest “Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.”

Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.

2 May 2010 grant b 0



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This is the site where the Europeans are building the world’s largest visible-light telescope, the E-ELT, or European Extremely Large Telescope. The name isn’t… Read the rest “Science Art: Cerra Armazona at night, European Southern Observatory.”

Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO

21 April 2010 grant b 0

What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:

This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and… Read the rest “Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO”

Comets made us icy.

5 April 2010 grant b 0

Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze:

Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each

… Read the rest “Comets made us icy.”

Science Art: Galileo’s Sunspots, 1612

28 March 2010 grant b 0



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Originally published in 1612 in published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome.

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“If it doesn’t exist then they don’t have a favorite planet.”

11 March 2010 grant b 0

Hate Mail From Third Graders is NOVA’s tribute to Pluto’s lost status as ninth planet.

The letters (to Hayden Planetarium director Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson), are well worth… Read the rest ““If it doesn’t exist then they don’t have a favorite planet.””

Life is dangerous.

24 February 2010 grant b 0

NPR has introduced me to the Medea Principle; just as the Gaia Principle states that a planet can be thought of as a single living organism, this idea states that the single biggest threat … Read the rest “Life is dangerous.”

Planet Styrofoam.

7 January 2010 grant b 0

You’ve probably, by now, heard about the latest crop of distant planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. But have you read, in New Scientist or elsewhere, just how strangely light… Read the rest “Planet Styrofoam.”

Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

15 November 2009 grant b 0



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This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land you see on that crescent is the South… Read the rest “Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home”

Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.

8 November 2009 grant b 0



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This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of Steam. (Then, as now, Pluto didn’t make the planetary… Read the rest “Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.”

Look up, TV people.

6 November 2009 grant b 0

New Scientist points out an unexpected sunny side of the recent switch to digital broadcasting: it’s suddenly a lot easier for radio telescopes to see the sky:

The window is giving

… Read the rest “Look up, TV people.”

SURPRISE! Asteroid nearly blows up Indonesia.

29 October 2009 grant b 0

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the Telegraph reports that an asteroid just blew up over Indonesia with the force of three atomic bombs:

Scientists are concerned that it

… Read the rest “SURPRISE! Asteroid nearly blows up Indonesia.”

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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