Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
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 […]
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We’re a greasy galaxy
Science Daily reveals that the Milky Way is more like the Greasy Way, with the discovery of lots of “grease-like molecules” floating in the void […]
What the last eclipse taught us.
Science News looks back at last year’s dramatic solar eclipse and shows us why it was a big deal research-wise, too: While thousands of eclipse […]
SONG: The Hardest Fact (Considering IMS J2204+0112)
SONG: “The Hardest Fact (Considering IMS J2204+0112)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 16 Mar 2018, “Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so […]
Outperforming black holes get too big, too fast.
Science News has a metaphor for our times playing out in deep space, where we’ve been watching black holes defy expectations by getting much bigger, […]
Jupiter’s cyclone-clusters have a geometry. They make shapes.
Science News looks over data from the Juno space probe and marvels at some of the strange things that are being revealed about the giant […]
Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory
Click to embiggen Look up! I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically […]
China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input […]
Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran
Click to embiggen This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery. The NASA folks say: This […]
We just sent a message to a habitable planet.
New Scientist explains that the recipients, if there are any, could answer in about 25 years – enough time for a radio message to travel […]
Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA
Click to embiggen There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show […]
It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.
Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars: With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, […]
Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be […]
Good picture of dark matter.
Science Daily gets us a better look than ever before at how much dark matter is out there, where it is, and what it’s doing […]
Amateurs find a nearby star by looking through pro astronomers’ old data.
There’s a thing in Australia called “noodling,” where hobbyists look through opal mine spoil piles and find overlooked bits of precious stones. Syfy Wire has […]