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 […]
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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 […]
That planet is too big.
Ars Technica reports on a bafflingly huge exoplanet spotted by the Webb Space Telescope. It’s the size of Neptune, but closely orbiting a star much […]
Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its own description printed right on it. These […]
Science Art: Planetary Systems, with Five Opening Flaps, from Geographical Studies by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887.
I found this fascinating artifact in a wonderful article in Public Domain Review about Yaggy’s maps, pop-ups, and 3D diagrams of the Earth’s surface, habitats, […]
SONG: Clockwork of the Sky
SONG: “Clockwork of the Sky”. (available as .wav here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on BBC, 8 Sep 2023, “Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa’s deliberate Dart […]
There’s a watery planet way out yonder.
Science Daily shares the latest James Webb Space Telescope discovery, of a large planet around a distant star whose chemical traces show a high likelihood […]
Space mission seems to have changed asteroid’s orbit.
BBC is reporting on the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which touched down on the asteroid Dimorphos (which orbits larger asteroid Didymos) earlier this […]
Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.
This is another way of doing a Cosmic Zoom, comparing the sizes of astronomical things. If you’ve wondered how many Earths could fit inside Arcturus, […]
Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898
This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in […]
Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.
Scientific American reports on a James Webb Space Telescope discovery, allowing scientists the first possible glimpses of the very first stars ever to shine in […]
Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023
This is an image made by combining visible light (from the Hubble and ESO orbiting telescopes) and invisible infrared and X-ray imagery (from the Webb, […]