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This is not the famous Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) black hole image that you’ve probably seen by now. It’s a visualization of some of the data that helped… Read the rest “Science Art: Chandra X-ray Observatory close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy, by NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen”
Science News has a historic snapshot that it took a long while to take – and from a long, long way away:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a photograph of a supermassive black hole.”A world-spanning network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope zoomed
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 eccentric entrepreneur who financed… Read the rest “Science Art: Four views of the Alvan Clark & Sons workshop…, from Scientific American, Sep. 24, 1887”
A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was when the sun was at a specific point in the sky at the equinoxes… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2”
Nature shows us how politics is blinding science:
… Read the rest “The Hubble is broken, and the gov’t shutdown means no one’s fixing it.”Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees are on involuntary
Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Tiny planets….”Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are seen as
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 or two ago. It’s… Read the rest “SONG: Black Star (a penitential cover)”
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 suddenly explode:
… Read the rest “Solar flares set off underwater mines in the Vietnam war – and we just figured it out.”[I]magine the U.S. military’s
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?:
… Read the rest “Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.”Bo Ma at the University
From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.”This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. As
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In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images.
I found this on the Planetary Society’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather”
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 prove one little corner of one of Einstein’s… Read the rest “The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.”
The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap:
… Read the rest “There’s liquid water on Mars”ABSTRACT:
The presence of liquid water at
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… Read the rest “Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.”
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s.
An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an astronomer), unleashed the horribly … Read the rest “Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot”
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