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Scientific illustration as an infographic depicting three basic types of planets discovered orbiting stars elsewhere in the galaxy.

Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023

3 December 2023 grant 0

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 are alien planets,… Read the rest “Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023”

Scientific illustration of the solar system, as a map of the night sky, from the 1800s. It's like a Victorian planetarium.

Science Art: Planetary Systems, with Five Opening Flaps, from Geographical Studies by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887.

1 October 2023 grant 0

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, and other … Read the rest “Science Art: Planetary Systems, with Five Opening Flaps, from Geographical Studies by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887.”

SONG: Clockwork of the Sky

24 September 2023 grant 0

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… Read the rest “SONG: Clockwork of the Sky”

There’s a watery planet way out yonder.

14 September 2023 grant 0

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 that there’s enough water… Read the rest “There’s a watery planet way out yonder.”

Space mission seems to have changed asteroid’s orbit.

11 September 2023 grant 0

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 year. The test… Read the rest “Space mission seems to have changed asteroid’s orbit.”

Scientific illustration comparing the sizes of planets and stars - how much bigger Jupiter is than Earth, or the Sun than Jupiter, or Sirius than the Sun.

Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.

11 September 2023 grant 0

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, well, here’s one way to… Read the rest “Science Art: Comparison of planets and stars (2017 update), by Dave Jarvis and Jcpag2012.”

Scientific illustration of perspective, showing the sizes of objects of the same shape at different distances.

Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898

30 July 2023 grant 0

This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in my living room. But anyway, three very different objects… Read the rest “Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898”

Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.

7 July 2023 grant 0

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 our universe:

It is hunting

… Read the rest “Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.”
Scientific illustration of a nebula in deep space, the blue-gray "pillars of creation" rising like stony fingers of cloud against a sunset-orange backdrop, illuminated by glowing maginta spheres of new stars.

Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023

11 June 2023 grant 0

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, Chandra, and XMM-Newton telescopes).… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023”

We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.

11 February 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There are ways, however, to bring the stars back… Read the rest “We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.”

Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.

9 January 2023 grant 0

PhysOrg looks back (via the James Webb Space Telescope) to when the universe was a quarter of its current age, and has been able to see young galaxies stretching out into shapes like our own… Read the rest “Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.”

Scientific illustration of a telescope array capturing a gamma-ray burst: dark skies and glowing energy fields. Superbossa.com and C. Righi.

Science Art: MAGIC telescopes detected the highest-energy gamma rays from a Gamma Ray Burst…, 2019.

27 November 2022 grant 0

This is an illustration of MAGIC telescopes capturing images of very intense gamma rays. “MAGIC” refers to the twin Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes… Read the rest “Science Art: MAGIC telescopes detected the highest-energy gamma rays from a Gamma Ray Burst…, 2019.”

“BOAT” gamma burst shines a light brighter than any seen in 50 years.

4 November 2022 grant 0

Science News says the BOAT (for “brightest of all time”) has shed new light on a galaxy very, very far away … and even affected atoms in our atmosphere:

This new burst,

… Read the rest ““BOAT” gamma burst shines a light brighter than any seen in 50 years.”

Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.

19 September 2022 grant 0

Science News winds back the astronomical clock to the early days of Planet Earth, when waves of comet collisions seem to have slammed the planet’s solid crust into shape in a regularly… Read the rest “Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.”

Ultracool dwarf star has a Goldilocks planet.

8 September 2022 grant 0

Space.com reports on the discovery of two intriguing planets found orbiting an ultracool star – including one world that falls within the life-sustaining Goldilocks zone:

The

… Read the rest “Ultracool dwarf star has a Goldilocks planet.”

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