Science Art: The Great Paris Reflector, 1898.
This is an image from The New Astronomy, a textbook of space sciences I found on archive.org. It’s one of what was at the time […]
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Science Art: Earth’s Shadow and Penumbra in Sections, 1898.
This delightful diagram appears on a page of A New Astronomy For Beginners that also has an almanac of “Important Future Eclipses” from 1898 (January […]
Science Art: Andromeda Galaxy, by Isaac Roberts, 1888.
It was this photograph’s anniversary today, or so said Robert McNees, posting on Bluesky’s science-communication feed. On the 29th of December, 1888, a Welsh businessman, […]
SONG: “Einstein’s Idea” (a penitential Johnny Flynn cover)
SONG: “Einstein’s Idea (a penitential Johnny Flynn cover)” . (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover of a song by actor/singer/songwriter […]
Science Art: Interacting Galaxies Arp 142 (MIRI Image), by NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.
This is a photograph of a strangely-shaped galaxy, as taken by the Webb Space Telescope. Or rather, a set of “interacting” galaxies, known collectively as […]
Daddy-daughter alien decoding.
The European Space Agency reports on the team who successfully decoded an “alien” transmission actually sent by a probe orbiting Mars as part of a […]
James Webb will be looking for other Earths in unusual places.
Mashable has the details, but the general gist is the space telescope will not focus on Sun-like stars to find Earth-like planets (that is, rocky […]
The Wow! signal probably wasn’t aliens (but is still wow).
Scientific American has a new explanation for the famous “Wow!” signal – the orderly burst of focused radio energy recorded in 1977 that seemed like […]
There are oceans on Mars – but they’re too deep to get to.
PhysOrg says there’s liquid water on Mars (great!) but (aw!) it’s too far underground to tap: The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists […]
There’s a cave on the moon we could live in.
BBC reports on the discovery of a cave on the moon that has awakened a primordial proto-human urge in the space scientists observing it. They […]
Up to 60% of the objects nearest Earth could be “dark comets.”
PhysOrg reports on mysterious chunks of hard-to-see space rock all around us, even now. They contained – and might still contain – ice, which University […]
Science Art: Saturn Eclipse, Cassini Orbiter, 2006.
This is Saturn, as photographed (yes, it’s a composite photo, not a drawing) by Cassini as it passed in front of the Sun. Our Earth […]
A planet that is constantly exploding.
This discovery reminds me of some people I know. Mashable reports on the discovery 66 light years away of solar system “HD 104067,” with a […]
Science Art: Sun not in Plane of Moon’s Orbit – Eclipses Impossible, etc., 1898
This is an illustration — two illustrations, actually — from A New Astronomy for Beginners by David P. Todd. It’s actually an illustration of a […]
Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018
They do look a little like meerkats, these big African satellite dishes. This is a photo from the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) / South […]