Pulsars have an invisible halo
Physics Magazine takes a look at the radiation surrounding those high-energy stars that zoot-zoot-zoot out in regularly recurring intervals (stars with a pulse, in other […]
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Nearby galaxies are shredding each other.
BBC Science Focus looks up at the heavens and sees two nearby galaxies — the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — […]
SONG: “Einstein’s Idea” (a penitential Johnny Flynn cover)
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 […]
Twinkle loudly, little star
Science Daily has the story of a research team at Northwestern University that has determined the way any particular star should twinkle – which is […]
Wormholes in space and time could be engineered.
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 […]
Science Art: Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury…, 1887
Click to embiggen From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a […]
Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)
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 […]
MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.
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 […]
There’s no such thing as a black hole. (Says Stephen Hawking.)
Nature reveals that one of the planet’s top physicists has lost his faith in one of the heaviest things in astrophysics: In a paper posted […]
Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend
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 […]
Science Art: Diurnal Motion of the Celestial Sphere, from General Astrophysics by Jerzy Stodolkiewicz, 1973
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 […]
GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter: On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil […]
Hawking Q&A
Time has a vox-pop interview with professional smartypants Stephen Hawking: Does it feel like a huge responsibility to have people expecting you to have all […]
New light on dark matter.
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 […]