Weird water might exist across the universe – as a supersolid.
Wired reveals a new way to look at the stuff life relies on – and gives a reason why it could be a lot more […]
astronomy
Science Art: Chandra X-ray Observatory close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy, by NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen
Click to embiggen This is not the famous Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) black hole image that you’ve probably seen by now. It’s a visualization of […]
We’ve got a photograph of a supermassive black hole.
Science News has a historic snapshot that it took a long while to take – and from a long, long way away: A world-spanning network […]
Science Art: Four views of the Alvan Clark & Sons workshop…, from Scientific American, Sep. 24, 1887
Here, an astronomical family is building a 36-inch refractor telescope known as the Great Lick Refractor in the 1880s. It’s named for James Lick, an […]
Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2
Click to embiggen A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was […]
The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.
Nature shows us how politics is blinding science: Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees […]
Science Art: Tiny planets….
Click to embiggen Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog: Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are […]
SONG: Black Star (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Black Star” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for a song a month […]
Solar flares set off underwater mines in the Vietnam war – and we just figured it out.
Popular Science can reveal the disturbing solution to a minor military mystery with the story of how space weather made a bunch of military mines […]
Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.
Nature asks the question raised by University of Florida astronomers: how did Roddenberry know there’d be a hot, heavy, but Earth-like planet orbiting 40 Eridani?: […]
Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather
Click to embiggen In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images. I found this […]
The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.
Nature reports on new observations of the vast, insatiable, matter-consuming maw at the heart of our galaxy that, on the bright side, has given helped […]
There’s liquid water on Mars
The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap: ABSTRACT: The presence […]
Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.
Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling an […]