Conference Chaos
This week is proving to be a slow news week, and I think that is in part triggered by so many people having a ‘WTF is going on with the world’ kind of week. Over the weekend, the American Physical Society cancelled their annual meeting less than a day before events...
Globular Clusters in the Galactic Magnetic Field
Globular cluster 47 Tuc (upper right) and the Small Magellanic Cloud in the same field-of-view. The inset is a close-up of the cluster showing the detected magnetic field in a colour scale. © ESO/VISTA VMC (background image); F. Abbate et al., Nature Astronomy (inset)...
A Chonky White Dwarf
Artist’s impression of two white dwarfs in the process of merging. This image is free for use if used in direct connection with this story but image copyright and credit must be University of Warwick/Mark Garlick In new research coming out of Warwick University, an...
Earth’s Moonshine shows life
Snapshot spectra of terrestrial molecular oxygen and water vapor absorption. Intensity is plotted versus wavelength in Angstroem. Time increases from bottom up as indicated in UT hh:mm:ss. Immediately noticeable is the dramatic increase of O2 and H2O absorption...
The AGN Outburst we won’t call an explosion
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Naval Research Lab/Giacintucci, S.; XMM:ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRTN; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF Today’s top story flooded our feeds yesterday’s with news that astronomers had detected the biggest explosion ever seen in our...
A Rock around the Earth
Astronomers of all kinds are currently fascinated by a tiny object with a crazy orbit around our world. This tiny thing is of unknown composition, and is speculated to probably be a little asteroid but maybe be a big piece of space junk. Discovered by folks at the...
Learning from Rocks
A last look back at Vesta: This image is from the last sequence of images the NASA Dawn spacecraft obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta, looking down at Vesta's north pole as it was departing. Photo Credit: NASA Let's take a look at Vesta, the number 2 asteroid in the...
More learning from Rocks
Today, Earth’s magnetic field (visualized) is powered by electrically conductive fluid in the outer core. Billions of years ago, a churning, buried sea of magma circling the nascent core may have been responsible. Image Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization...
A Pretty Planetary Nebula
oir2006a – Gemini South Captures Planetary Nebula CVMP 1 Credit: The international Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA Gemini Observatory has published a stunning picture of the Planetary Nebula CVMP 1. This leaned...
Roscosmos launches Meridian-M 19L satellite
Image from Roscosmos Twitter: https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1230497305071104000 On Thursday, February 20 at 08:25 UTC, the Russian Military launched a Soyuz-2 with the Meridian-M 19L satellite. At first glance, it looks like this mission went completely...
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