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Scientific illustration of a solar system being formed.

Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.

5 September 2021 grant 0

This is a painting for NASA of the formation of a distant solar system, used to illustrate the article “Formation of the Solar System: Birth of Worlds.”

It’s showing … Read the rest “Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.”

Scienitific Illustration of a total eclipse of the sun, a painting from 1897

Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun (from a painting by Kranz), 1897

29 August 2021 grant 0

This is the frontispiece to A New Astronomy for Beginners, by David P. Todd, an 1897 textbook on the latest astronomical breakthroughs. The passage on page 298 about total eclipses says … Read the rest “Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun (from a painting by Kranz), 1897”

SONG: Curling at the Edges

24 August 2021 grant 0

SONG: “Curling at the Edges”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Science, 1 Aug 19, “The Milky Way is more warped than astronomers thought,” as used in the post “Our… Read the rest “SONG: Curling at the Edges”

Our galaxy is warped. Just a little.

11 August 2021 grant 0

Science reports that the Milky Way isn’t quite as flat, edge-on, as we thought. It’s got a slight but detectable S-curve, like a piece of warping plywood:

To make the map, astronomers

… Read the rest “Our galaxy is warped. Just a little.”

Why haven’t we found aliens? Maybe because the most common star type is lousy at sustaining life.

24 June 2021 grant 0

Inverse looks at a potential answer to the puzzle of why, in a universe filled with so many stars, we haven’t found any evidence of any life out there. It might be, says David Kipping … Read the rest “Why haven’t we found aliens? Maybe because the most common star type is lousy at sustaining life.”

Betelgeuse burped.

16 June 2021 grant 0

New Scientist explains that reason Betelgeuse recently appeared to dim in the sky was that it was expelling gas:

Miguel Montargès at Sorbonne University in France and his colleagues may

… Read the rest “Betelgeuse burped.”

Farfarout is as far, far out as you can get (and still be in the Solar System).

18 February 2021 grant 0

NSF’s NOIRLab looks at a body that the Gemini Observatory spotted in 2018 and that astronomers working at Hawaii’s Subaru telescope nicknamed Farfarout. Now, they’ve… Read the rest “Farfarout is as far, far out as you can get (and still be in the Solar System).”

Alpha Centauri’s possible planet: a warm Neptune, a very large Earth.

13 February 2021 grant 0

Scientific American wonders whether we’ve just spotted a new planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, our sun’s nearest neighbor. If it’s there, that potential planet is … Read the rest “Alpha Centauri’s possible planet: a warm Neptune, a very large Earth.”

Scientific illustration of meteor-shower orbits

Science Art: Perihelion Parts of Orbits of the August and November Meteor-showers

4 January 2021 grant 0

Scientific illustration of meteor-shower orbitsClick to embiggen

Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org.

Something about this diagram reminds me… Read the rest “Science Art: Perihelion Parts of Orbits of the August and November Meteor-showers”

Look southwest.

22 December 2020 grant 0

NASA has details on how to spot the Great Conjunction – the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn appearing almost as a single point of light shortly after sunset yesterday, today (the … Read the rest “Look southwest.”

Scientific Illustration of solar storms, or sunspots, from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

Science Art: Thanksgiving Day sunspots (SOHO EIT 171 Latest Image: 2020/11/26 13:00), by NASA & ESA

29 November 2020 grant 0

Scientific Illustration of solar storms, or sunspots, from the Solar and Heliospheric ObservatoryClick to embiggen

This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here as what sunspots actually are – very large… Read the rest “Science Art: Thanksgiving Day sunspots (SOHO EIT 171 Latest Image: 2020/11/26 13:00), by NASA & ESA”

Scientific illustration from the Hubble Space Telescope of a shockwave in space - a small section of the Cygnus supernova.

Science Art: At the edge of the blast, Hubble Space Telescope, 2020.

15 November 2020 grant 0

Scientific illustration from the Hubble Space Telescope of a shockwave in space - a small section of the Cygnus supernova.Click to embiggen

From the ESA Image Gallery, dated 28 Aug 2020, comes an image of a portion of the Cygnus supernova, a blast wave 2400 light-years distant from a dying star 20 times larger … Read the rest “Science Art: At the edge of the blast, Hubble Space Telescope, 2020.”

Molecular ring on Titan could be key to life on Earth.

10 November 2020 grant 0

New Scientist looks at the origins of life – which may be revealed by a ring-shaped molecule we just found on Saturn’s moon Titan:

The molecule is called cyclopropenylidene

… Read the rest “Molecular ring on Titan could be key to life on Earth.”

Sonifications turn telescope images of deep space into music.

22 October 2020 grant 0

Science News listens to astronomical data in a way that’s helping vision-impaired people and scientists find new ways to understand what our deep-space telescopes are showing … Read the rest “Sonifications turn telescope images of deep space into music.”

SONG: Collisions

24 September 2020 grant 0

SONG: “Collisions”

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on BBC, 2 Sep 2020, “Black holes: Cosmic signal rattles Earth after 7 billion years”, as used in the post “A… Read the rest “SONG: Collisions”

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  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
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