Comets from the Milky Way’s other arms helped form Earth’s continents.
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 […]
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Ultracool dwarf star has a Goldilocks planet.
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: […]
Webb telescope spots CO2 in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.
Science News has a report from space that’s not as cool as finding an oxygen-rich alien planet, but almost. It’s a planet that the James […]
Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 […]
Science Art: Fig 61, A Voyage in Space, “Fragments from the Rings Falling into the Sun,” 1915.
This is an illustration of a defunct theory. The idea being put forward explains sunspots as the impacts of meteors, which come from the rings […]
Science Art: The galactic habitable zone of the Milky Way, as predicted by Lineweaver et al (2004), NASA/Caltech 2013.
Solar systems have a “goldilocks zone” where planets capable of sustaining life forms similar to ours can form. Well, galaxies might also have a goldilocks […]
Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own […]
SONG: Like Lava Made of Water
SONG: “Like Lava Made of Water”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean,” as used […]
Spotting the farthest star: Earendel.
Science Daily shares news from NASA/Goddard that Hubble, the space telescope supposedly surpassed by the new Webb telescope, has now identified the farthest star (and […]
Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio […]
Science Art: The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into the workstands…, 1990
There’s a new space telescope getting ready to do its thing now, but here’s a look back to when the last one was brand new. […]
Programming computers to find Antarctic meteorites.
Science magazine explains how that big southerly continent has become the best place to find meteorites, and how those ancient fallen rocks offer priceless clues […]
Something in space is getting really bright three times an hour.
Science Daily reports on a deep space mystery that the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is trying to figure out – namely, what this […]
Science Art: Section of a Comet’s Path, 1933
This illustration, from Natural History Magazine, shows the way the comet of 1843 (or Comet 1843, if you prefer) reached its closest point to the […]
Science Art: Comet observations from Libra astronomica, y philosophica by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, 1690.
I can’t make out exactly what this is illustrating. My Spanish is barely good enough to tell, in section 309 of Carlos de Siguenza y […]