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.”
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”.
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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”
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:
… Read the rest “Our galaxy is warped. Just a little.”To make the map, astronomers
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.”
New Scientist explains that reason Betelgeuse recently appeared to dim in the sky was that it was expelling gas:
… Read the rest “Betelgeuse burped.”Miguel Montargès at Sorbonne University in France and his colleagues may
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).”
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.”
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”
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.”
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”
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.”
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:
… Read the rest “Molecular ring on Titan could be key to life on Earth.”The molecule is called cyclopropenylidene
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”
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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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