BBC Science Focus looks up at the heavens and sees two nearby galaxies — the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — that, instead of peacefully spinning… Read the rest “Nearby galaxies are shredding each other.”
SONG: “Einstein’s Idea (a penitential Johnny Flynn cover)” . (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover of a song by actor/singer/songwriter… Read the rest “SONG: “Einstein’s Idea” (a penitential Johnny Flynn cover)”
Science Alert checks out “superionic ice,” an exotic form of ice that stays solid at extremely hot temperatures and is probably floating around inside the cores of Uranus … Read the rest “Hot Ice”
Science Daily has the story of a research team at Northwestern University that has determined the way any particular star should twinkle – which is a phenomenon based in part on how… Read the rest “Twinkle loudly, little star”
Scientific American reports on new findings about wormholes. Theoretically, these black hole-related phenomena make a great part of science fiction, giving people the ability to instantaneously… Read the rest “Wormholes in space and time could be engineered.”
From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a device designed to disprove … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury…, 1887”
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into a point; a spinning black… Read the rest “Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)”
DailyGalaxy.com shares the weird – an experiment that’s been proposed to tell for once and for all if classical physics can explain the universe, or if everything there is … Read the rest “MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.”
Nature reveals that one of the planet’s top physicists has lost his faith in one of the heaviest things in astrophysics:
… Read the rest “There’s no such thing as a black hole. (Says Stephen Hawking.)”In a paper posted online, the physicist, based at the University
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when a galaxy passes by in the background. Or at least when… Read the rest “Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend”
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style.
Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the universe and figure out what we’re seeing.
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter:
… Read the rest “GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)”On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, a model
Time has a vox-pop interview with professional smartypants Stephen Hawking:
… Read the rest “Hawking Q&A”Does it feel like a huge responsibility to have people expecting you to have all the answers to life’s
Thanks to two researchers at the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Space.com reports, we might soon be able to finally take a closer look at dark matter:
… Read the rest “New light on dark matter.”Now, after sifting through observations
SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.
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