This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, where the stars are packed so… Read the rest “Science Art: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri”
Reuters carries the story of the first seed of life to be discovered on a comet:
… Read the rest “We found the seeds.”The latest findings add credence to the notion that extraterrestrial objects such as meteorites and comets
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big science… Read the rest “… and Jupiter, while we’re at it.”
The archives of Space.com have produced an old but strikingly weird story about a strikingly weird discovery – a second moon orbiting invisibly around Earth:
… Read the rest “Loonier than Luna.”The 3-mile-wide (5-km)
On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – the first up-close look at the… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunrise Over Saturn and its Rings, W00018160.jpg, 2006”
National Geographic breaks the worrying news that Betelgeuse is shrinking:
… Read the rest “What’s squeezing Betelgeuse?”Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first measured the star in 1993 with an infrared instrument
You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized it until a Canadian scientist –… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)”
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re all swimming in a cosmic dacquiri:
… Read the rest “Cosmic dacquiri.”In the latest survey,
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have killed off the dinosaurs after all… Read the rest “Scratch that asteroid.”
Mmmmaybe. At least, that’s what the Telegraph is saying. They’ve talked to astronomers and are now raising the alarm (and our stress levels) with thoughts of invisible killers… Read the rest “Deadly dark comets will kill us all.”
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the horizon and how far north or south in the sky.
Essentially… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok”
Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void.
You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
Taken at the Lockheed facility, the image shows “the optical metering truss and secondary baffle.”
And important-looking people in orange jumpsuits, … Read the rest “Science Art: Early Stages of Hubble Construction, 1980.”
The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed Earth’s radiation while looking… Read the rest “Science Art: Explorer VII”
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University… Read the rest “Science Art: Io before Jupiter.”
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