Do you want to see an alien solar system? Those roving dots are four real planets, orbiting a very young star called HR 8799 about 129 lightyears from Earth. The star itself is hiding under the black circle to block most of its light (i.e. it's not added in post), so the telescope can actually pick out… Continue reading Pale Blue Dots
I was listening to this week's Cracked podcast today (about how humanity always seems to think it's on the brink of the apocalypse, no matter the generation, and how we actually are better off now than any point in history) and Jason Pargin said the following: "When we cite these statistics we're about to cite, the rebuttal… Continue reading Don’t Bring Anecdotes to a Data Fight
I understand what the article is trying to say - that physics is weirder than you think it is and that's really cool - but I think it could have done so without denigrating an imaginative narrative device in its title.
(Completed Mar. 2016 for my MSc course on Creative Arts in Science Engagement)
If there were no atmosphere to make the sky blue, we'd all be incredibly dead, incredibly fast. But let's set that aside for the moment. If there were no atmosphere to make the sky blue, what colour would we look out and see? We'd see a (cloudless) black sky all day, no matter the hour.… Continue reading What colour is the universe?
I spent 3 weeks watching 90 movies about space. Don't worry - it was for a very expensive piece of paper.
JD Voyek 