New Scientist has joined the chorus of publications huddling around the cutest space invaders ever. Swedish researchers have just proved that tiny creatures called tardigrades, or “water… Read the rest “Space bears, more like.”
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
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Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones.
On Mar 16, Earth’s most sophisticated telescopes were briefly blinded by a flash of gamma rays.… Read the rest “Science Art: Swift Naked Eye Gamma Burst”
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
From the NASA Image Galleries:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare”On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known as EV Lacertae. This flare was
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch”When Spitzer launched Monday, 25 August 2003 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT from Cape
This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars”
“…and stripped half the crust off the planet.” That’s a new theory about the Red Planet reported in Science News and elsewhere.
The problem: The north half of … Read the rest ““Something big smacked into Mars…””
I’m quite impressed by “Cosmology in 10 Minutes” by Danielle Fong, her attempt to explain why scientists believe what they do about how this all came to be:
… Read the rest “The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).”Guth said,
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An ultraviolet image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the vast, violent, invisible auroras around the huge planet’s poles. Like the auroras… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora”
Or the next best thing: New Scientist’s gallery of supernova remnants.
Here’s the most recent photo:
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This chart shows the universe as understood in 1660 – a solar system with a giant Earth at its center.
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