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 […]
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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 […]
Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.
This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had […]
Building a telescope on the Moon.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine reports on NASA’s plan to look deeper into space than ever before by setting up a 9-lb (4-kg) radio telescope […]
Science Art: He2-104: The Southern Crab Nebula, 1999.
This is a nebula inside a nebula, caused by two stars pulling each other apart, as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. From the description […]
A magnetic galactic map in three dimensions.
The University of Tokyo might have solved some riddles about the formation of stars by creating the world’s first 3D map of the galaxy’s own […]