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Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
[…] It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself – … Continue reading
The Extraordinary Objects Hubble Has Seen In Our Solar System | Hubble Images Episode 10
Hubble doesn’t just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA. More Hubble Images in this playlist: … Continue reading
Brilliant Solar Flares and the Northern Lights Appear in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist | Colossal
GRACE EBERT “Iceland Vortex” by Larryn Rae A trippy shot of the psychedelic California Nebula, a panorama of the Milky Way sprawling above French lavender crops, and a phenomenal glimpse of the sun’s magnetic field bursting after a solar flare … Continue reading
I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. | ‘Almost Famous’ by Op-Docs
Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences … Continue reading
Hubble is fixed! And is the crisis in cosmology over?! | Night Sky News July ’21
From how to spot the Perseids meteor shower, to fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, to billionaire space flights, free-floating planets, a new type of Supernova, and a solution to the crisis in cosmology. All in this month’s Night Sky News! … Continue reading
There Are Way More Rogue Planets Than We Thought | Kottke
posted by Tim Carmody Jul 06, 2021 The galaxy is wild. Our solar system, with its surprising abundance of living creatures and nonstop radiation and asteroid showers, is a placid, private garden compared to the rest of it. In … Continue reading
A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena | Colossal
JUNE 25, 2021 GRACE EBERT NASA and the USPS have teamed up to release a glimmering series of stamps that celebrates some of the sun’s most alluring phenomena. Printed with a foil treatment, the ten designs are derived from a … Continue reading
Is There Life on Earth?
I mean… how do you really know? SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ If we lived light years from Earth, how would we know there’s life here? Let’s take a … Continue reading
Visualising gravitational waves
I take a classic demonstration of warping spacetime and figure out how to demonstrate gravitational waves with the addition of some wheels and a drill. Discussion video about LIGO and gravitational waves: Tom Scott’s video about frame rate: Visit my … Continue reading
Why the Stars Are Disappearing
[…] It never gets dark anymore. Not REALLY dark, anyway. Not like it used to. Light pollution is not only making it more difficult to see the night sky, but it’s also affecting our health. For the past century and … Continue reading
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